The official AHF Inter-War quiz thread

[iffig]

No, a quasi-military operation, compatible with the traditional neutrality policy of Switzerland .....

[peeved]

WAG:

465th Anniversary of the Augsburg Confession?

Salutschießen; Good out-of-the-box thinking, Bill.

I've considered a hunting tour (too frivolous) and testing military firearms. Unfortunately neither Hungary, Poland or Romania adopted rifle calibre official Swiss firearms or vice versa so any reference to such test-firing is probably obscure and at best requires Google Chrome compatibility to search for some obscure source in an equally obscure language.

The large number of the uniformed personnel is also disconcerting since it's unlikely that the frugal Swiss would've sent a platoon to do a fire team's job; E.g. the Swiss Furrer LMG was tested in Poland but outside the official LMG competition. I'm not aware of the K31 tested for adoption abroad either. The Swiss uniforms also preclude a papal guard connection.

Markus

[Bill Murray]

Hola Mis Amigos........

Iffig/Markus/ I think Markus and I have done an outstanding job of trying to sort out your tips.

I now know more about the various possibilities of "465" than I ever want to know.
I now know more about Swiss history than I ever want to know.
I now know more about Warsaw/Bucarest/Budapest than I ever want to know.

Google just sent me an invoice for exceeding their bandwidth allowance for images.

Rarely do I say this, but "I Give Up".

Cheers
Bill

[iffig]

The pic was taken in 1919 and has to do with the turmoil in post WW I Eastern Europa.

[Ironmachine]

Maybe related to this:

In the aftermatch of World War I, special guarded trains carried food, medical supplies and other relief goods to Central Europe. The Swiss had a surplus of these materials, which were desperately needed in such places as Austria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. However, because the chaotic political situation had spawned lawless bands of roving thieves, shipping such merchandise was unsafe. Thus, it was necessary to find a means of safeguarding the deliveries. As a result, agreements were negotiated with the various governments that the good trains would be escorted by members of the Swiss Army.

http://www.swiss-stamps.us/Tell/T292.pdf

[iffig]

Certainly related with this episode, although my source is slightly different:

http://museemilitaire.tripod.com/brec30.pdf

This episode was almost unknown until 2009, when a proposal to send soldiers in order to protect Swiss ships against Somalian pirats was debated in Switzerland. Those in favor of this decision mentionned this precedent. So we have a picture of Swiss soldiers from the 5 th freight convoy after a parade in Warsaw, having taken place on August 1 st 1919. The civilian in the pic are probably Polish officials and Swiss civilian representative of the firms who had asked for protection from looters.

And over to Spain!

[Ironmachine]

Thanks, iffig.
A plane now:

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[Ironmachine]

Well, it seems it's time for some hints. Another view of the plane:

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Only two prototypes were built.

[iffig]

Praga BH-44

[Ironmachine]

Correct. Over to you again, iffig.
Regards.

[iffig]

Thank you!
Something which (hopefully!) stays on the ground now:



What is it?

[iffig]

Hint: Obviously French!

[iffig]

Second hint:

[iffig]

New hint:

[Bill Murray]

Hi iffig:

Renault 20 CUP of 1929ish, apparently a prototype.
Bill

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