Panzerknacker already answered:
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?4054-Italian-tanks-and-AFVs./page3
The SPA 37 is the normal truck not armored, the Sahariana is the AS42
Also the SPA 37 was called Autocarro sahariano, but it’s different from the “sahariana” that is a camionetta (the AS 42). The SPA 37 or AS37 is the same thing: the SPA AS37. Called also SPA TL (traino leggero) 37. All this denominations can easily create confusion for everybody… Anyway with a picture all becomes easy.
A few more pictures of this useful looking Italian version of the universal type carrier.
I have only just started to look at Italian vehicles again, in my youth I fairly dismissed them as irrelevant and concentrated more on Early British WW2 vehicles (North Africa and the BEF in particular).
The Italians had some very good kit as well as the more commonly thought of really bad kit. It did surprise me rather pleasantly I may add.
Hello Leccy, to make you an idea on what the Italian possessed as material, I join you this link, that will be able to help you. It is a site in French but with the translator of Google it should go.
Fred regards
Cheers for that, finding reliable information on the net in English is difficult. I have no problems using the translators even if it takes me longer to read and understand as it is generally well worth the effort.
I only have a few books about Italian forces during WW2 and they are not particularly all encompassing so more good links are very welcome. (Good books in English are welcome as well)
Wanst that more like a command variant of the L6 light tank ?
Hello Panzerknacker, it is well about frame of L6/40, but used here on a prototype of recognition vehicle, its name was Cingoletta L40 and it was armed of one MG of 13.2mm and of a Breda model 38 of 8mm, that speed was of about 60KM/H and its motor came from the AB40. As hoping to have you was useful, it is true that this vehicle is very little known.
Fred regards
I see, I thought it was the variant of the semovente of 47mm without gun.
Indeed my dear Panzerknacker, because the two vehicles sharing the same frame and the aspect is misleading enough, but it makes look at the back shelf of the vehicle, notably the over to perceive that the one doesn’t come here from the Semovent, the one of the Cingolato is longer.
Fred regards
Bella foto, nitida, del Semovente 76/46
Nice to see the Italians and their equipment getting some good coverage, they are so often overlooked.
The Semovente 76/46 was the first “real” Italian tank destroyer. The Italians armed all Semovente with a mix of ammunition but their primary role, up to the armistice, was as mobile artillery support/assault guns. They began to form tank destroyer formations, using the 75/34, in 1943 (the 75/18 was also used to supplement tank strength, much in the way the Germans used the Stug and other tank destroyers in their tank battalions during the late war period) but the 76/46 was really the first Semovente designed as a tank destroyer, with an ATG as its main armament.
Testing the “sardine can” Ansaldo CV33 and derivates, ridiculous vehicle, I think the film is from 1934 or 35.