WW2 soft-skinned vehicles quiz

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#1

Hello everybody,

I´d like to start the new quiz about soft-skinned vehicles of the WW2.
(trucks, cars, jeeps, prime movers, motorcycles, artillery tractors, etc.)
If you want to join this thread, you are welcome :smiley:

For the beginning try this:

#2

Artillery tractor.

That’s the easy part. Now for the guesses

Maybe Marmon-Herrington type.

Or Hansa Lloyd type, except with wheels instead of half tracks.

Troop uniforms hard to pick, but maybe middle European or Balkan.

#3

Hi, Rising Sun

Neither Marmon-Herrington nor Hansa-Lloyd, but… yes, this artillery tractor was made in the middle European country!

#4

Hungarian?

Botond?

#5

Yes, Hungarian and Botond, but what is its name?
Botond means all terrain

#6

41M (That should be 41 M but for some reason it keeps posting as a lower case M.)

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#7

Yup, the Hungarian artillery tractor 41M Raba Ari
Your turn, mate :slight_smile:

#8

Thanks.

They didn’t come much more soft-skinned than this.

#9

Clue: The significance is not the car itself but who used it.

#10

Hi,

Interesting stuff!

This photo was taken in 1942 in Brisbane and shows Gen. Douglas MacArthur Wolseley18/80 Limousine

#11

Very well done!

Your turn, mate. :smiley:

#12

Thanks, was not easy :slight_smile:

Let´s guess this one

#13

It wasn’t meant to be easy. :wink:

Looks a bit like a DAF design.

Am I getting warm?

#14

No, I’m not.

Although it’s a bit DAF, it turns out that DAF didn’t produce its first truck until after the war. :frowning:

#15

By no means :wink:

#16

Agreed. :frowning:

There’s a couple of French designs, mainly Renault, that are similar in many respects to your photo but clearly aren’t identical.

Should I be looking further east towards Middle Europe?

Or maybe south, towards Italy?

#17

Your first supposition was right, but it´s not Renault.

#18

Citroen is an obvious possibility, although I can’t find a Citroen truck that matches.

It’d be nice if you could Photoshop out the soldier in front of the radiator grille so I could see any emblem there. :wink: :smiley:

Peugeot had a truck roughly similar to the flat faced Renault which is similar to your picture in style if not detail, but neither of them matches.

Can’t find a Berliet match.

#19

This truck was made by the firm that doesn´t exist anymore.
This firm produced also a very useful armored car.

#20

One is tempted to think Citroen Camion-Lourde.
That wasn’t designed until 1944, and didn’t get produced until about October of 1946.
Which leaves us with the vehicle it was copied from: The Panhard Camion-Lourde, which has large parts of the drivetrain componentry in common with the ubiquitous Panhard 178 Armoured Car, if my memory is correct.

Kind Regards my friends, Uyraell.