Someing out of the ordinary

Does anyone knwo what car the base of this vehicle is?
What was the purpose? (crazy German engineering)
Dosen't this thing look awsome!

 

Looks field converted, whatever it is.

:lol:

 

It's probably from the 30's

The germans used cars made up as tanks during their training whilst real tanks were still being designed and made.

The joke was during early 1940 that the germans were going to invade france with cardboard tanks. oh how the germans laughed about that one

FNG

 

i read some time ago that during the polish camp. the polish pow would touch the germans tanks, cos the heard they were made of cardboard

 

just remember that they could not make of posses tanks according to the terms imposed by the allies after ww1
as a curious note, during the 30 the american army also practised with "filed covertions truck" tanks for their exersises

 

Yep, the US Army used cargo trucks with TANK painted on them. They also had wooden machine guns and pipe mortars.

 

its a "panzerkraftwagen-nachbildung" on "opel-kastenwagen-fahrgestel" type 1396 (from 1935)

It was used in training. The car base i don't know apart that it was a type 1396 from Opel whatever that means.... they were build on purpose BTW.

possibly this one: http://www.autogallery.org.ru/opelp4.htm has a "kastenwagen" variant wit 1.3l engine


Im' sure other countries used stuff like this in training (to me this looks a better option for tactical training than using old mkVIII tanks), but i'm sure only Germans could have made up its designation...
...i wonder how the thing was referred to in spoken language ?

oh, and the mg 34 in the turret was real ...so the thing was not enteirly fake

Aglooka

 

thanks for the help, does any1 knwow where i can get more pictures of field conversions? Preferably german but any will do.

 

Say no more



1926 on non specified lkw chassis



1930, on bmw dixie



on hanomag 2/10 and 3/16



1930 on "adler 6", this one has a crew of 4



the opel one from the previous posts



after 1936: on volkswagenfahrgestell 82, dummy tracks wre removable, obviously on a kubelwagen variant.

all from spiegelberger's: die gepanzerten radfarzeuge des deutschen heeres 1905-1945

Aglooka

 

:lol: well they've got train whit something...

 

Excellent and very informative post Aglooka!

 

Thanks for the pics they are awsome. Hehe a bicycle to look like a tank, the germans are the greatest tricksters ever