Many thousands of different types of vehicles were used by the armies during the Second World War for various roles, including the fighting vehicles such as armoured cars and tanks. Today these are very popular with enthusiasts who restore these historic vehicles to their pristine state and attend specialist gatherings around the country and ......
Opel Blitz (German for ""lightning"") was the name given to various light and middle-weight truck series built by the German automobile manufacturer Opel from 1930. This book focuses on the light version of the Blitz lorry deployed by the Wehrmacht during World War II: Opel Blitz type 3,5-134 & 3,5-157; Opel Blitz type 2,0-12; Opel Blitz type ......
Chevrolet 1 ½-ton 4x4 Trucks Cargo, M6 Bomb Service and others Production of the first Chevrolet 1 ½-ton 4x4 trucks started in August 1940 with cargo and dump trucks with and without winch, panel trucks and the Bomb Service Truck M6. Of these models only the cargo trucks kept rolling off the assembly lines until the end of production in August ......
When asked for the most famous and best-known truck of the German Wehrmacht in World War Two, the name ‘Opel Blitz’ automatically comes up. Despite all its fame the background of its purchase, the military versions and the impressed civilian types, were hitherto not well documented. The three production models and the many variants and ......
- In action photographs and a detailed walkaround, English text.
- Limited print-run 999 copies
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Illustrated with 84 colour photographs
- In action photographs and a detailed walkaround, English text.
- Limited print-run 999 copies
- As our series “In-Detail” but half size / half price!
Quantity Photos and Illustrations:
Illustrated with 73 colour photographs
In the U.S. Army Studebaker US6 and US6x4 models saw only very limited use with the Corps of Engineer regiments assigned to the construction of the Alcan (Alaska) Highway. Lend-Lease shipments of the US6 series came to about 90% of the production run, with by far the most being shipped to the Soviet Union. The second largest recipient of US6 ......
48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings.
Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal compagnion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants.
Comprehensive pictorial with technical description on 48 pages, based on the original Technical Manuals.
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2 colour / 150 black&white / 5 drawings
The M809 5-ton, 6x6 Truck Series is a family of tactical general multipurpose trucks that was designed for use on all types of roads, highways and cross-country terrain. Like its predecessor, the M39 series, the M809 5-ton Truck Series includes a large number of variants, among them the Ribbon Bridge Transporter. In external appearance the ......
48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings.
Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal compagnion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants.
U.S. WW II Dodge WC51-WC52 Weapons Carrier 48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings. Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal compagnion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and ......
48 pages with 150-200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical drawings.
Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal compagnion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants.
Illustrated throughout. Excerpts of technical manuals, wartime photos, photos of restored vehicles. Ideal compagnion for modellers and fans of technology. Complete background history and variants.
Quantity Photos and Illustrations:
200 illustrations, among them WW2 action photos, colour photos and technical ......
The bulk of Wehrmacht transport of World War 2 was in the 3-ton payload range. The best known truck in this class, aside from the Opel Blitz S, was the Henschel Typ 33. It is creditable that a peacetime design that saw the light of day as early as 1934 (when mass production for the Reichswehr was launched) survived for such a long time in the ......
With the transition from the Reichswehr to the Wehrmacht intentions grew to create a standardised truck design for the army. The result was the ‘Light, Off-road-capable Standardised Truck 6x6 Type HWA 526 D, or short ‘Einheits-Diesel that was built by almost all German truck manufacturers based on one unified design. In the early war years its ......
The idea of a unified design for a military passenger (field) car for the Wehrmacht began to take shape in the early 1930s. The intention was to avoid the many types of different vehicles that were used in the Reichswehr by concentrating on the so-called leichter (light), mittlerer (medium) and schwerer (heavy) ‘Einheits-PKW’ standardised ......
The 1930s saw the development of a highly modern design for a 4-wheeled light armoured reconnaissance vehicle for the armoured reconnaissance units of the Wehrmacht. The highly successful result was the family of the 4-Rad Panzerspähwagen. This publication tells their success story on all frontlines and throughout World War 2 in hitherto ......
No other wheeled vehicle family of the Wehrmacht shaped the image of the Blitzkrieg era more than the Sd.Kfz. 231/232 6-wheeled / 8-wheeled Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles. This publication grants a comprehensive technical and historical overview on these unique armoured cars in mostly hitherto unpublished ......
Manufactured by Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg (MAN for short), one of the worlds leading truck manufacturers, the Support Vehicles (SV) fleet replaced a range of older truck designs that had been in service with the British Army since the Cold War. The SV truck range began entering service in 2007 and it consists of different cargo vehicles ......
The Commercial Pattern Low Mobility; Commercial Pattern Improved Low Mobility; Medium Mobility; and Improved Medium Mobility truck ranges were designed by Foden to meet British Army requirements for road-going cargo, fuel and tipper trucks, off-road-capable tractors, limbers and recovery vehicles, and an off-road variant of the Demountable Rack ......
With the introduction of the Centurion MBT in 1945 the British Army tank transporters of World War Two, the Scammell Pioneer and the Diamond-T M19, were outclassed. From 1951 they were replaced by the Thornycroft FV12000 Antar. More than three decades later, in 1984, the Antar was replaced by the Scammell Commander that was capable of ......
The AT 105 Saxon is a wheeled armoured personnel carrier (APC) operated by infantry battalions and elements of supporting arms of the British Army from the mid-1980s right into the new millennium. Procured as wheeled armoured transport that would allow infantry assets to travel at considerable speed under armour protection, the AT 105 Saxon ......
The Soviet Union had a relatively standardised military vehicle park at the outbreak of the Second World War, consisting primarily of GAZ and ZiS vehicles. These trucks were simple to produce in massive numbers and were straightforward to operate and maintain in military service. This book reviews the standard Soviet built wheeled military ......
The use of 5-ton trucks for hauling material and for special purposes has a long tradition within the U.S. Army. Since its introduction from 1982 the M939 series of tactical trucks is the backbone of U.S. military transport all over the world. This publication shows the development history and technology ranging from prototypes, standard ......
The backbone of the vehicle fleet of the U.S. Army are the HEMTT heavy all-terrain trucks. The U.S.M.C. introduced its own fleet of similar heavy trucks called the Logistic Vehicle System - LVS, the U.S. Army later fielded the Palletized Load System - PLS. After the HEMTT truck family has been covered in detail in American Special N° 3003 and ......
Despite their overall success and high reputation within the U.S. Army the HEMTT tactical trucks showed on international missions from 1996 the lack of armor protection for the crews. This situation became critical after the 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom had been launched.
This publication describes the Armored HEMTT trucks ......
In order to protect the troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from the increasing and extremely deadly IEDs the U.S. Armed Forces issued a Joint Theatre Requirement for armor protected wheeled vehicles in late 2006. The intent of the MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle) programme was to provide the operating forces with multiple ......
In the 1950s the development of highly off-road capable tactical trucks for the US Army was launched. The two outstanding results of this undertaking were from 1966 the M520 Goer and from 1969 the M561 Gama Goat articulated trucks. Their off-road capabilities were milestones in military truck design and the experiences gained with them are ......
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