Catalogue

Special Armour SA35007

VW type 825 "Pick Up" Ferdinand Porsche, a German automotive engineer, developed his famous "people's car", the VW Beetle on direct Adolf Hitler's impulse. During the Second World War, the vehicle was produced in large numbers and in various verisons and modofications, for both the military and the civil users. The Beetle had either two (rear) wheel drive or even four wheel drive. Besides the civil users, the Beetle saw milita...

Special Armour SA35005

VW typ 83 Kastenwagen In the late 1930s on Adolf Hitlers direct impulse, Ferdinand Porsche, a German automotive designer was developing a car suitable for wide masses of Nazi Germany. This development gave birth to the so called KdF-Wagen vehicle, named after the Kraft-durch-Freude slogan, literally meaning Strength Through Joy, the car to be better known as the VW Beetle in the post war era. In 1938 as the war was getting clo...

Special Armour SA35003

R-2 TACAM Romanian tank destroyer

Special Armour SA35009

Panhard 178B '47 mm Gun Late Turret' The French Panhard 178 armoured vehicle, fitted with a 25mm cannon, was one of the best pre-war AFVs in its category. This was also the reason for the Wehmacht to have put these captured vehicles to use. When France was liberated in 1944, the production of the type was re-established. The new machines, known as the Panhard 178B, differed by having a new gun turret. While the prototype vehic...

Special Armour SA35008

Panzerbefhlswagen 35(t) Command tank The Skoda Lt.35 tank, designed and built in Czechoslovakia, was introduced to service with the German Wehrmacht as the Pz.35(t). The Germans had some number of the tanks converted to commander vehicles, designated the Befelswaggen Pz.35(t) and put them to action alongside the standard Pz.35(t) tanks in France in 1940 and a year later in the Soviet Union. The model of the command vehicle c...

Special Armour SA35002

75 mm horsky kanon vz.15 (7,5 cm Gerbirgskanone M.15 / 7,5 cm It was a long time tradition for the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to use mountain guns, and in the beginning of the 20th century, mountain guns Mark 75 and Mark 99 were widely used. These types, however, were becoming outdated quite quickly becauseof rapid development of artillery techology of those times. The Skoda Works in Pilsen, a traditional supplier of ...