Abstract: An end damper is used with a motor vehicle frame, a wheel vertically displaceable adjacent the frame, and a vertically compressible shock absorber having an upper part secured to the frame and a lower part secured to the wheel. The absorber is vertically compressible with upward travel of the lower part. The end damper is carried on the frame above the lower part and comprises a housing defining a chamber, a body of liquid in the chamber, an upper sleeve in the chamber and connected to the frame, and a lower sleeve vertically telescopable with the upper sleeve between an upper position and a lower position, subdividing the chamber with the upper sleeve into a pair of compartments communicating through the gap, and defining with the upper sleeve an annular passage communicating between the compartments and of substantially greater length in the upper position than in the lower position. A spring braced between the sleeves urges the lower sleeve into the lower position.

Abstract: A track structure for a tracked vehicle especially a tank, comprises a track whose tread links are joined in the continuous chain by intermediate links such that the tread links have a spacing x from one another. The tread chain passes around running-wheel assemblies supporting the chassis of the vehicle, each assembly having a pair of rollers journaled adjacent one another at horizontally spaced axes such that the spacing X of the two rollers of each assembly from one another is equal to 1x to 1.5x, inclusive. This reduces shock transmission to the vehicle as the flat links pass around the roller assemblies.

Abstract: A mounting assembly for the terminal drive of the track of a tracked vehicle, especially a tank or like military vehicle, comprises a final-drive assembly which is received in an opening of the hull of the vehicle with all-around clearance and means bridging the housing of this drive assembly and the hull for elastically supporting the drive assembly with limited freedom of movement thereof transverse to its axis.