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Re: Vehicle identity requests

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Post by pietvanhees » 01 Jul 2010, 11:42

Bert,

Some pictures you should be able to step into and shoot lots of detail pictures of the vehicle in it. If the GI at the nose of the vehicle is leaning his hand on the bonnet, it's a completly different vehicle. The vague 2nd rearwheel I dismissed as a part of the fiat at first. I've got more pictures of the laffly. I'll check asap (I'm getting home very late today, so don't hold your breath)

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Post by pietvanhees » 02 Jul 2010, 12:15

Wow this brand laffly is a complete range of vehicles in 4x4 6x6 and ranging from "just a bit bigger than a kfz15" upto a kind of a scammel tractor.
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Post by pietvanhees » 02 Jul 2010, 12:16

On this one the wheel is clearly visable
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Post by pietvanhees » 02 Jul 2010, 12:34

(sorry for the clipping in more tan one post, it won't aloww mor than one picture)

This picture has a shocking detail. I only identified it after I enlarged it. There's a burned body before the middle wheel. As it's the best picture to identify the vehicle I've hesitated to do so, but I've posted it anyway.
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Post by SIS 5 » 02 Jul 2010, 15:27

Hi Piet,

thanks for posting these pics of Laffly vehicles. I tried to ID them with the help of Vauvillier´s book "L´automobile sous l´uniforme".
So I think the first vehicle is a Laffly S 15 R, the second a Laffly S 15 T, and the third is a Laffly S 20 TL. I´ll post pics of these vehicles out of this book.

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Post by TadPortly » 04 Jul 2010, 21:07

Thanks V much for your ID guys

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Post by Larry Hayward » 05 Jul 2010, 00:53

Going back to the Opel Blitz on the previous page, I see that there is some writing on the side of the body which confirms that the photo was originally reveresed. If you look at the side of the rear body at the front there is some writing in black which looks to start with the letter L. It is at the same height in the photo as the head of the man who is furthest to the right than the others!

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... start=2685

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Post by pietvanhees » 05 Jul 2010, 11:43

Exactly Larry. But, in all the thousends of period pictures, all technical info and some 30 surviving vehicles I've never even seen a single hint of a right hand drive Opel Blitz. So, I guess they never got exported to the U.K. or other left driving countries. (But I would love to be proven otherwise.....)

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Post by Sturm78 » 07 Jul 2010, 13:06

Hi all,

I need help with this truck:
Sorry for the small size of the image

Image from Ebay
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Post by pietvanhees » 07 Jul 2010, 14:01

Simple: a Krupp l3H
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Post by Sturm78 » 09 Jul 2010, 16:30

Ummhhhh. Could it be, but I am not sure if 2 or 3-axle truck

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Post by pietvanhees » 10 Jul 2010, 11:56

Neh, cant be. it sure has that illusion. But between the officers boots, there is te shadow of the second wheel.

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Post by Sturm78 » 10 Jul 2010, 13:01

Hi all,

I need help with these vehicles:

Images from Ebay
Thanks in advance. Sturm78
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Re: Vehicle identity requests

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Post by SIS 5 » 10 Jul 2010, 15:37

Hi Sturm, hi Piet,

You are right, Piet, it is a Krupp L 3 H 63. Here a pic with the same truck in a similar perspective (source: Reinhard Frank: Lastkraftwagen der Wehrmacht). Here You can see the three axes.

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Re: Vehicle identity requests

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Post by SIS 5 » 10 Jul 2010, 15:52

Hi Sturm 78,

thank You very much for posting these really interesting pics. I tried to ID these vehicles, but I only succeeded in one of them, the first. That is a Mercedes Benz G 3 a, it could be a Beobachtungskraftwagen (Kfz. 76). I´ll post a pic of such a vehicle (source: Reinhard Frank: Mercedes im Kriege, Waffen-Arsenal Band 94).

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