Show us your impressed/confiscated vehicle photos

[Larrister]

Hi Bill

Here's a nice photo that arrived today. Pic of a Medium Uniform Pkw and a Horsch 830 R with Autounion rings on grille and sporting a civilian numberplate for Provinz Brandenburg. Both cars belong to a Signals Company and have the symbol for 8.Jg.Division.

Cheers
Larrister

[Larrister]

Hi

Here are two photos with vehicles I cannot identify. They may both be foreign makes. First pic shows a truck that may be a Vomag but I cannot be sure.

[Larrister]

The car at left looks like a MB but what make is the car on the right?

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Larrister

[Bill Murray]

Hi Larry:
Your first photo is a Studebaker, ex French, I forget the model number just now, K something.
Second photo shows a BMW Cabriolet to the left and a late thirties Cadillac on the right.
I am at the store right now so have no reference material at hand but will revisit the photos tonight.
OK, the Stude is K30 and the Cadillac is a 1936 years model but I cannot determing the series but it is one of the 60 or 70 series. Seems a lot of Cadillacs were confiscated in France.
Cheers
Bill

[Larrister]

Hi Bill

Nice Work! Thanks for the good information.

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Larrister

[Larrister]

Hi Bill

Will keep the ball rolling with another vehicle I cannot identify. I have been through my vehicle books but cannot find a match for this truck. French perhaps?

Cheers
Larry

[Bill Murray]

Larry:

I believe your truck is a Renault:
First guess would be an ADK, but some photos I have show a split windscreen but the rest fits.
Hopefully others from France will jump in and verify or change my ID.
Cheers
Bill

[S Ballantyne]

I agree

Hi Bill,

I agree, a Renault ADK, I have an image from ebay of an example with one-piece windscreen. Everything else matches too, louvres on side of engine, grille, headlight arrangement, bumper, etc.

Cheers
Steve

[Larrister]

Thanks Guys.

Here's another confiscated truck. A French Matford F 917.

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Larrister

[s.pak]

hi guys !

you called me ?

I confirm the identification of bill, your truck it is well a Studebaker ex French Army, and the model is K25.
the other French truck is not a Renault 1,5to ADK but much rare , it is a Unic 1,5to S27 (185 units products for the French Army).
It is true that that seems much has Renault ADK, but the shape of the mudguards is well particular in Unic S27, Renault mudguards do not have this form.
about the windsreen of the Renault ADK (1936), it is always with one-piece windsreen, the same truck whith split windscreen is a Renault 1,5 to AGC (1939).
best regards patrick

[Bill Murray]

Patrick: Many thanks mon ami for the ID of the Unic. It is now the only such photo of that vehicle on my computer. A unique Unic


May I ask why you call the Studebaker a K25?? Bart Vanderveen's book says those supplied to French Forces were K30s (3 tonners) and so do a couple of other sources. Using Studebaker's numbering system, a K25 would be a 2.5 tonner, and there was such a model, but I have no record of such models being sent to France.

As a funny matter, I was going to withdraw my ID of the Unic as a Renault when I got h ome, where I am now, but you beat me to it. Then, of course, I would have had to say "I don't know what it is"

Now, what is that little roadster looking vehicle behind the Unic?? Looks almost British and I will try to enlarge it in my editing program during the evening to see if I can ID it.
Cheers
Bill

[Larrister]

Hi Bill and Patrick

I guess yous are talking about the truck photo I posted yesterday that was identified as a Renault. So it is a Unic. I have never heard of ths make. Note also in the picture the very wide gauge of the rail line on the left compared to the one on the right. I wonder what it was used for. Bill: PM sent.

Cheers
Larrister

[s.pak]

hi bill

Studebaker K25 is not a truck of the 2,5 tons class but a truck of 5 tons class.

The french Army accepted approximately 2000 K25 before May 1940.

The only American truck of 2,5 tons class ordered by the French Army is GMC ACK 353 (2000 units).

best regards patrick

[Bill Murray]

Hi Patrick:

Well, we seem to be dealing from different sources. I did find something in my computer files which are copies of pages of what I guess is a French modelling magazine or maybe it was SteelMaster that described a K25 5 ton Studebaker.
That is the only such reference, however. And...may I say I do have good references on Studebaker trucks and the K numbers do reference load capacity so a K25 is 2.5 tons and a K30 is 3 tons. It really is not all that important I guess as we at least can agree it is a Studebaker, whatever model it may be.

Now, regarding the roadster type vehicle behind that truck. I said maybe British but I found another photo in my files that may answer my own question but I would like other opinions. Here is the photo, an Opel. It is from an old eBay auction but I did not capture the sellers name.
Edit: By the way, I sure wish I had one of those Opels today in my garage
Bill

[Larrister]

Hi Bill

The car in question is definitely an Opel in my opinion. Either an Opel 2.0 or a Super 6. Here's a couple of photos from the Oldtimers site for comparism. First one is the 2.0, second the Super 6.

Cheers
Larrister