Axis Armored Vehicles Quiz

[Ifor]

I know this one Alan, but I shall keep shtum.

[peeved]

Bert, I'm going to be stubborn and go back to my last question but add a clue.

Hi Alan,

Isn't a clue a bit redundant when you already answered your own question on 6 April?

Markus

[Alanmccoubrey]

Bert, I'm going to be stubborn and go back to my last question but add a clue.

Hi Alan,

Isn't a clue a bit redundant when you already answered your own question on 6 April?

Markus

Markus, perhaps I am just losing my mind.......I had completely forgotten

[Alanmccoubrey]

Markus, I'm sure I haven't done this one before, or told you what it is !

[peeved]

Hi Alan,

Sd.Kfz. 247 Ausf. A with extra radio equipment?

Markus

[Alanmccoubrey]

I knew you'd get it !

[peeved]

Thanks Alan,

New subject: The vehicle in this cropped exp. Ebay.de preview photo.

Markus

[Alanmccoubrey]

Looks like an early Panzer II with its turret replaced by a wooden structure.

[peeved]

Hi Alan,

It does,

but when not cropped to confuse it looks a bit different.

Markus

[Alanmccoubrey]

I didn't really think that it could be a Pz II, they always had four return rollers and even cropped yours has only three. I've never seen a vehicle with 6 road wheels that size and Pz II drive sprocket and idler, very odd. Krupp's entry for the Panzer III contract looks very like this but its drive sprockets and idlers looked more like the classic Pz III.

[peeved]

Hi Alan,

You're very close; It is a Krupp proto.

Hint: Regimental runabout rolling on its former role.

Markus

[peeved]

Hint: Its name has slight Bundeswehr connotations.

[Alanmccoubrey]

Markus, I've stretched my knowledge of Krupp prototypes to its limit already so unless this is their entry to the VK16 contest I haven't a clue.....and I didn't know that they'd made an entry to the Leopard contest I'm just going on your hint

[peeved]

Hi Alan,

Again you're hovering around what I believe to be the right answer, just a few digits shy of the correct VK. Also the Bundeswehr connotation is more direct and truncated than Leopard.

FWIW if I could interpret the chicken scratch on the photo backside shot it spelled "Speyer"; Apparently several Ersatz units and institutions concentrating on the vehic's former occupation used to lay there (and a related Bundeswehr unit until 2003).

Markus

[shamirnewell]

Bruckenleger IVb.