► Photothread: Tractors of the Axis

[Luftflotte2]

You are most welcome.

Here is a ChTZ S-65 towing a wagon with presumably a water tank.

[Maxschnauzer]

Beute Schneider CD Artillery Tractor of WWI vintage:

[glushenko]

German soldiers have captured a Soviet tractor HTZ-15/30.

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[uncle]

Soviet only "Universal"

[Luftflotte2]

More Caterpillars. source: ebay.de

[Luftflotte2]

The first picture contains two Chenard & Walcker FAR tractors. It isn't clear if these are surrendering French units or newly acquired German ones. There is an organizational symbol visible but I don't know who it belongs to. The second picture shows a vehicle I am struggling to remember.

sources:
ebay.de
kfzderwehrmacht.de

[glushenko]

Tractor "Caterpillar" in the Luftwaffe.

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[uncle]

here Bussing - there is a match

[peeved]

The second picture shows a vehicle I am struggling to remember.

Looks like a Faun; Somewhat similar to this L 335 D 63 from IIRC Autotypenbuch 1937.

Markus

[ilfil]

The second picture shows a vehicle I am struggling to remember.

I vote for FAUN but can't say for sure the model on which chassis the tractor is based. Could be 560 or 600.

[SIS 5]

Hi Luftflotte 2, hi uncle, hi Markus, hi ilfil,

for me it is a Faun, too. I think the type L 335 is too small, and the type 600 too heavy. My assumption: the type L 560. There was a special tractor type with the designation Z 566. That could also be a possibility. Here a pic of this tractor out of the booklet "Taschenbuch deutscher Zugmaschinenbau" by Wolfgang H. Gebhardt.

Best regards

Bert

[peeved]

Some of the ID problem seems to arise from the fact that the Faun is a Sattelzugmaschine semi tractor and not a lorry or a Zugmaschine ballast tractor; Couldn't find a match in either Gebhardt's lorry or tractor books, just as I e.g. can't find some known Kaelble Sattelzugmaschine models in them.

Markus

[Maxschnauzer]

The cab and bonnet look very similar to the Faun LK 5 railway crane Dirk posted here: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... &start=285:

[uncle]

guys who know the book on an excavator? They exist?

[Luftflotte2]

here Bussing - there is a match

Are you sure your pic is not a Faun? I think the closest match seems to be Faun.
For the sake of argument, I had thought of the Vomag Dieselschlepper (postwar picture?). Both have similar engine compartments. However, it is clear the cabs are different.