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Old 16-09-04, 02:10
Richard Notton
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Default Re: Re: Identification Quizz

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Originally posted by FV623
Well. . . . . . .It could be a German conversion to a French Laffly W 15T, they applied armoured bodywork to some of them similar in look to their 3 ton Armourd Personnel Carriers bodies (the Sdkfz 251 3 ton SPW's).
Well, further to that look at the body shape and the rectangular shapes, probably chain hooks, in the wheel rims and the wheel hub itself. Of course the nose would give it away as these all had the very characteristic small unditching wheels at the front. These W 15Ts would have likely been captured in quantity of course.

Here's what I've found in Beute-Kraftfahrzeuge und-Panzer der deutschen Wehrmacht by Walter Spielberger.

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