Nachtmarschgerät – Convoy Lighting – Part 2
The Notek Tarnscheinwerfer – origin In researching historic vehicles, it is seldom that one can find the specific reason for a particular development or the…
February 26, 2021
The Notek Tarnscheinwerfer – origin In researching historic vehicles, it is seldom that one can find the specific reason for a particular development or the…
Planning a Sd.Kfz.221? Another collector expressed surprise that we were concerned about the different types of Winker since it was easy to source examples that…
Hens’ teeth! A particularly challenging search was for the Anlasser (starter motor) for the 3.5 litre Horch V8 engines required both for our Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie…
In search of excellence – Creating an Authentic Replacement The Ölkühler (oil cooler) was only fitted in the Leichter Panzer Spaehwagen Ausf.A thus making the…
John Prigent – Weald Foundation Member It was fascinating to read about ‘winkers’ in Inside Track, and these are my memories of the British version…
The Tarnscheinwerfer In due course the Foundation will publish a series of articles on the topic of the special lighting equipment used by the German…
A History Over the coming months we will publish articles on the Foundation’s quest for and experience with the correct Winkers (direction indicators) for our…
As we have discussed before the type of suppression fitted on the electrical equipment of any wartime vehicle is key to understanding its use. The…
Öleinfüllstutzen und Blau Kugelverschluss Two Steps Forward…. Frustration has been quite high within our 3.5 V8 engine project. The current challenge has been to ascertain,…
The title is rather simplistic and follows the description of the searchlight listed in D664/5 -Einheitsfahrgestell I Ger ätbeschreibung dated 3 March 1943. The long-winded…
From the Archive Following on from research conducted throughout our Renault FT project another area of interest worth raising once again are the Casiers a’…
The thousands of vehicles emanating from Werk Horch from the late 1930s and throughout the war should have resulted in a large quantity of these…
Obscure or Valuable Artefacts? Our collection includes oddities far beyond the expected vehicle related items. These have been gathered over many years based on rarity…
Rare confirmation Part of the challenge in researching the interior of the le.Pz.Sp.Wg . is the challenge posed by parts or fittings that are not…
Starting Point With the Foundations mission to restore vehicles to 100% accuracy so that they are as delivered eighty years ago means even fittings that…
This apparently incongruous detail on the side and front faces of the le.Pz.Sp.Wg. was a lot more difficult to research than we initially expected. The…