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Christie Suspension.

I'm sorry, but I changed the section where it says the Ausf D/E models used Christie suspensions. They did not. It had a similar appearance to a Christie suspension, with large road wheels and no return rollers, but it was in fact a torsion bar suspension (as it says on the Panzer II page). A Christie type is a very specific design utilizing coil springs connected to the roadwheels via bell-crank and linkages. I here quote from the Christie suspension page:

"Because large road wheels and "slack track" are characteristic of the Christie suspension, other designs with these features are sometimes misidentified as such. The real Christie suspension was used only on a few designs, notably the Soviet BT tanks and T-34, the British Cruiser tanks, including the A13's: Cruiser Mk III, Cruiser Mk IV, Covenanter, Crusader, Cromwell and the Comet, as well as some experimental Polish and Italian designs."

Basically, the Ausf D/E had a suspension much like the Panther tanks interleaved-road-wheel, "slack track" torsion bar suspension, only without the interleaved road wheels. I have changed the sentence to reflect this fact..45Colt 15:03, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]