paul hocking

Hello Brdgs Bram,

Well all I can say we must have been in two different St Mere Eglise's, went into St M-E on maybe four different days with a group of German motorcycles, met others there also (no uniforms worn of course, never have done), not one problem, Gendarmes everywhere, but no problems, the Borse was great..

Same in all the towns and locations we visited between St M-E, Utah Beach and area, Dead Man's Corner, Carentan, Isigny, Omaha Beach and area etc., etc.,

Have been going to Normandy with German vehicles ever since 1989, never ever a problem anywhere.

But we do not wear uniforms, maybe that makes the difference.

cheers Paul 

lN

Hi John,

Ouch ! that looks a bit serious,  our group also had problems, one R12 and one R75 off the road and eventually trailered back to the UK, but my R75 did 1110 Km altogether and another of our group's R12 did 1300km, both without fault. Probably luck of the draw I guess.

cheers PAUL

Hi,

Anybody on this forum attend the Notek event ?

Regarding St Mere Eglise, many German vehicles present on many days, virtually none with French resistance markings and weapons were everywhere, ever other Jeep seemed to have a 30 or 50 Cal mounted.

The Notek column got 75 German vehicles and was a very good runout, they managed to put seven Schwimmwagens into a local river.

cheers Paul 

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Hi,

Back in 2006 there was also a discussion about the Munsterlager Pz 38(t), in that it really was a Stv m/41 SII, it was pointed out that one of the most noticeable characteristics between a SII and and SI/Pz38(t) chassis, was the different size gap between the 2nd and 3rd roadwheels, it being a much larger gap of the SII chassis.

The then curator of the Swedish Axvall Museum made the following comments to me by PM about the chassis;-

The SII chassis differed from the SI chassis in having upgraded and therefore heavier frontal armour, in addition the new 162HP engine needed approximately an extra 100mm in the engine bay for it to be fitted. This resulted in a new engine bay compartment for the SII, which was approximaterly 200mm longer than the SI.

As the rear pair of roadwheels were positioned approximately the same distance from the rear of the new engine compartment as with the old engine ccompartment, it followed that the gap between the front and rear pairs of roadwheels was increased.

This also increased the length of track on the ground, and importantly satisfied the need to keep the heavier SII ground pressure the same as the SI, this increased length was the equivalent of one or two extra tracklinks top and bottom of the track run.

cheers Paul Hocking

Hi Neils,

Thanks for the body maker information, AG Ferrum is a rare maker of tehse bodies, maybe one day you can let me know the chassis number .

many thanks and regards Paul

Hi Niels,

Excellent work on a very interesting vehicle.

Do you know the manufacturer of thsi SPW ? Is it possible to post the chassis number for interest.

cheers PAUL

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1940 lEpkw Stoewer R200S

1942 Infantrie Karrier If8

1943 BMW R75 sKrad

Hi,

Yes absolutely so, for the Tiger II, my mistake, .

the Panther also taken to Sweden from France (as mentioned in the article) was originally a Befehlpanzer of Stab / SSPzRgt 2, its tactical number was 99, the other two Befehl Panther in the Stab of SSPzRgt 2 were 97 and 98.

As the article said the Panther is now in Munsterlager painted as a Befehl Panzer of the Pz Lehr Division. And the captured Panther in the above film, #232, is also from Pz Lehr division.

cheers PAUL

Hi,

This E100 is seen at the Henschel test facility called Haustenbeck in Northern Germany.

Its the same facility that Bovington got their Jagdtiger and Porsche turreted Tiger II from, along with this E100 and a 17cm "Grille" self propelled artillery gun and another Tiger I, the last three long since scrapped.

The shot up Tiger I is not the same as the one mentioned above.

A second Tiger II found here went to Sweden as a gift and now, I believe, only the gearbox exists.

cheers paul

Hi, not sure myself of its origins, but the chassis number shown and quoted, is not the chassis number, its the engine number and is shown to be on cleaned up area of the engine itself, this is quite normal of course. So what its true chassis number is.......... ?? There is a small plate on the front armour that normally carries the chassis number, its there and you can see it in some of the photos , but whatever stamped numbering it carries is not mentioned at all. cheers paul

Hi,

Unfortunately cannot see your photos, there is just a red X in a square, however thanks for the explanation, I am sure you are right, here are a couple of photos of an item I saw in Germany last year at a Oldtimer Treffen. Interesting stuff. Agh !, your photos have just appeared.

cheers Paul

d

Hi,

Do not know anything about the function or usage of these items, but the Mai 1944 VW82 parts book has this diagram for a supressed vehicle, and definitely shows the same arrangement of RF Filter Unit (item 2) and Ballast Restors (2x item 3) as per the Horch photograph .

My limited understanding is that these three "boxes" are standard for most small vehicles, hope it helps.

cheers Paul

Hi Nick,

good, enjoy a couple more, cheers PAUL

Hi,

may not be a conversion could be the real thing, a SdKfz 9/1,

paul

Hi,

Yes, all the personnal with the Bussing-Nag bus are NSKK, one officer and four other ranks, the bus also carries a plate on the front saying FAHRSCHULE (Driving School). So even though the bus carries a Luftwaffe registration it is being used by the NSKK for one of their prime functions, that of driver training.

Paul

Hi,

The "officer" standing by his BMW car is in fact an NCO, a Feldwebel (Company Sergeant major), the badge is an SA Military Sports Badge, which indicates that before being in the Heers (Army) he was in the SA-Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts)

Paul

Hi,

All the black and white photos shown are from the Werner Oswald book on Wehrmacht transport and are mainly mis-captioned, so here are some corrections;-

The horizontal bonnet side louvres are for the very earliest of lEpkw only, 99% had the vertical side louvre bonnets with the louvres facing for and aft. The Kfz 4 (Lichter Flakwagen) shown with these horizontal bonnet side louvres is the prototype Kfz 4 from Stoewer, so approx 1936, the first year of production. Production Kfz 4's has some small differences.

The top two photos show a 4 door/4 seat bodied lEpkw which could be either a Kfz 1 or 3 (Pkw or Messtruppwagen) from either BMW, Hanomag or Stoewer, its not possible to tell, unless you could see the engine, chassis number or dataplate.

The next photo is the prototype Kfz 4 as already mentioned.

The left photo below the Kfz 4 is a Kfz 1 or 3 from either BMW, Hanomag or Stoewer

The right photo below the Kfz 4 is a Kfz 2/1 Funkwagen therefore either a 1939-40 Stoewer R200S or a late 1939-40 Hanomag Typ 20B.

The bottom photo of the "running chassis" could be BMW, Hanomag or Stoewer, its early, with its 10 way dashboard fuse panel, this "running chassis " has now been completed by one of the aforementioned companies and would then be send onwards to one of the many body makers for the body to be added, this could then become a Kfz 1, 2, 2/2, 2/40, 3, 4. (a Kfz 2/1 Funkwagen is not possible on these early models as none of the early versions of the lEpkw engines were electrically supressed, so could not carry radios), After the body was added the complete vehicles would be sent to an HKP (Heeres Kraft Park) or the equivalent for the relevant equipment to be added, after that shipped out to units of the WL, WH, WM or W-SS.

The colour photo of my Stoewer which is now a Kfz 2/40 (Kleiner Instandsetzungwagen) version, is an August 1940 Typ R200S model with the correct and original bonnet, one way to know this is that there is a Carburettor Data plate rivetted to the inside of the bonnet that details the carburettor type and jet sizes for the engine, the carburettor detailed is the Solex 35 BFLV that was only used on the Stoewer R200S and Typ 40 (1939-44) and the Hanomag Type 20B of late 1939-40.

This R200S Stoewer has its full set of data plates and shows that it is a Stoewer built "Running Chassis" that then had a Stoewer built body added (not always the case, there were four other body makers involved) .

hope this very long explanation helps with understanding,

regards Paul Hocking.