Legion Condor Vehicles images

[SIS 5]

Hi Georg,

thank You very much for this excellent pics! Really great, especially the exclusive Mercedes car, a "Großer Mercedes" type 770 pullman-limousine.
Also very interesting the truck: a VOMAG type 5 LR 448.

Best regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here a pic out of a private photo collection: a Mercedes-Benz Kübelwagen.

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another pic out of a private photo collection: a Horch 830 BL Sportcabriolet, obviously after a car accident.

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

and here a pic with this car after a collision with a Spanish truck.

Regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here another car of the Legion Condor: also a Horch 830 BL.
Interesting the license plate with "L" and "C" for Legion Condor and a skull in the middle.
(source of the pic: "Handbuch Deutsche Kfz-Kennzeichen" by Andreas Herzfeld).

Regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

Hi Bert,
Yes, that's a very interesting plate. Perhaps it was a senior officer's car. Von Thoma used a similar skull without the LC on his personal Horch 830 R.:

[SIS 5]

Hi Max,

thanks a lot for this great pic. Here another pic out of the book: "Handbuch Deutsche Kfz-Kennzeichen" by Andreas Herzfeld:
two "leichte Einheits-PKWs" also with only the skull on the plates.

Best regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

Thanks Bert,
So obviously my theory is invalid. I just took a look through "German Military Vehicles in the Spanish Civil War" by José Maria Mata et al. and found several other examples of this type plate. It is evident that the traditional Totenkopf was the symbol of the Panzergruppe Drohne and their soft skin vehicles, at least some of them, bore this plate.

[SIS 5]

Hi Max,

thank You very much for this info.
Here two pics with the normal license plates of Legion Condor vehicles, also out of the book: "Handbuch Deutsche Kfz-Kennzeichen" by Andreas Herzfeld.
The first car could be a Wanderer type W 11, the second car could be a Mercedes-Benz type 200 cabriolet.

Best regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

Beute T-26

[SIS 5]

Hi Max,

gerat pic! Thanks for posting!
Here a pic of a telephone construction crew of the 3. Kompanie / Luftnachrichtenabteilung (mot.) 88 with a Hanomag type 4/20 in front and a Krupp type L 3 H 63 in the back near to Bilbao (source of the pic: "Personenkraftwagen der Wehrmacht" by Reinhard Frank).

Regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

Early style Mercedes-Benz Kfz. 343 Tanker

[SIS 5]

Hi Max,

a very interesting pic! Thanks for posting!
Here a pic of a radio direction finder motor vehicle (Kfz. 61), a Büssing-NAG type G 31) with a navigation radio direction finder trailer (Sd.Anh. 422).
Source of the pic: "Lastkraftwagen der Wehrmacht" by Reinhard Frank.

Best regards

Bert

[SIS 5]

Hi,

here a better pic of the navigation radio direction finder trailer (Sd.Anh. 422) of the Legion Condor (source of the pic: ebay).

Regards

Bert

[Maxschnauzer]

Sd.Kfz. 7, KM m 9 or KM m 10