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Tank Museum photo No.5834-A-2

We were looking at the Tiger the other day
and discussing the tracks.

It was noted that they are not mirror image
(as on our early Tiger II) but identical,
so that one is reversed in relation to the other.

Note, in the front view, how the track on the right,
as we look at it, has the grouser leading,
but trailing on the left,
which is the favoured arrangement.

We wondered if this was an oddity,
bearing in mind the long history of our tank,
but it seems unlikely since it was like this when the tank was captured and studying photographs of other Tigers suggests that this was standard procedure.

It is odd because the resistance of each track
would be slightly different.

Of course the problem did not apply with
the narrower transport tracks,
which were symmetrical, as shown here.

Yet another interesting Tiger conundrum.