I have posted it on a couple of other Forums without success.
I make it to be Italian as far as the vehicle is concerned and the body style is very similar to the well known "coloniale" cars mounted on several Italian car chassis.
This one, however seems to be mounted on a heavier chassis, it has a much stronger front bumper and the hood/bonnet louvres are much different than the normal cars. Closest I have come so far is it may be mounted on one of the larger car chassis such as a Fiat 2800 or something like that.
It may also be an "umbau" body done by either the Germans or the Italians.
My vehicle has been identified on another Forum as a Fiat 2800.
I gather they were built in small series and had a number of detail differences from one batch to another. Some had the spare tyres mounted in the fenders, some had them mounted on the rear of the car.
There were also differences in the number and location of the storage boxes mounted on the side of the car and as well different styles of front bumpers.
very nice to meet You here in this forum I discovered only a few days ago. I think I can give the answer to the first pic You posted in this thread. It could be a French Renault TI 4 AB. Sorry, I have no pic, but I read about these Renault trucks with bodies in Vaudevilliers book.
I agree it is a Renault but I have very poor source materiel on that make and do not know the type designation. I accept yours as you have some good knowledge of French vehicles.
Have a look through the thread, there are still many that have not been identified.
Cheers
Bill
it´s me again. I´ve found that very interesting pic Wallonien posted 03 - 17 - 2007. You identified it as a FIAT 634. But I´m not quite sure, because I´ve found a commercial with a similar truck: Lancia 3 RO in a civilian version. What do You think about it? The link:
Here is a photo from an old truck rallye in Italy of a civilian 634 which more or less shows how careful one must be when identifying some of these trucks. Notice how close the Fiat grille is to the civilian Lancia you show. But, different it is, and it is not a Fiat but a Lancia in my photo.
The military version of the 3ro by the way, had a quite different grille, very flat.
Bill
can someone please tell me the name of this vechicle and the number it was made in?
Wasnt this vechicle used for hitlers tranport in his visit to france 1940? Was it used also by wehrmacht staff?
Thanks in advance.
Ian
It would be my opinion that your photo shows a Czech Praga AV command car. A photo is attached here of the same vehicle.
I have no idea if Hitler used such a staff car as a parade car but I would suspect he would have preferred to use the very similar looking Mercedes G4.
Bill
back to a pic of a Krupp truck, posted by Larry 10 - 28 - 2005. I think I have found the correct definition: Krupp LD 3 H 62, a 3 ton - truck, the last new construction by Krupp before the beginnig of the war, first shown on the Automobilausstellung in Berlin 1939. So only a few trucks were produced.
Source: Bernd Regenberg: Das Lastwagen-Album Krupp; Karl-Heinz Hesse: Alle Lastwagen von Krupp.
I would like to insert two scanned pics of this truck, one civilian version and one military, but I´m not able, becauss I don´t know how to do. Maybe You can help me.
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