The Overvalwagen Website and Forum
 

Hello, ladies and gentlemen,

I am happy to tell you that yesterday I launched the first edition of my website. Due to the outage at MLU Forums I could not tell you earlier.

It is called:

Overvalwagens! Kaleidoscope of military vehicles in the Dutch East and West Indies before 1945

You can visit it at www.overvalwagen.com

Please take a look. Any feedback appreciated.

There's a small forum as well. Be welcome to participate (and post pics) with specific KNIL vehicle subjects.

I will be expanding the site to more chapters over the next few weeks and months. There will be pictures of the month and feature articles.

Of course I will be continue to be around at MLU, both lurking and participating! I owe it to this forum and its correspondents that I (we) made some significant leaps in the research of KNIL vehicles.
The bandwidth problems some weeks ago were the impetus to immediate action: making my own site! I thank Hanno and Geoff for giving that little push.

Hope you will enjoy Overvalwagens!

Kindest regards,
Nuyt

Re: New website: Overvalwagens!
 

Did I? If so I'm glad I did because it looks wonderful! Thanks for filling a gap in our history - will scrutinise the site and see if I can make any additions (though at first glance, I doubt it!).

Will add a link on my Marmon-Herrington military vehicles site

Keep up the good work!

Hanno

Thanks Hanno,

I will make a link page soon and your MH site as well as MLU, GM history and others will be there as well, of course!

Cheers,

Nuyt

Hallo Nuyt:

Congratulations, the site is "Toppen" and will certainly add a much needed new dimension to the ever expanding interest in countries other than the traditional "major" combatants in the 1939-45 conflicts. I have noted in the past few years a lot of activity regarding countries such as Romania, Czechoslovakia, Finland and so on which I view as a vital contribution to trying to grasp the fact that there were literally dozens of individual countries and populations involved in this truly "World War".

Sadly, I no longer seem to have the fire in the belly, as we say here, to go the extra distance to create a web site of my own.
Probably for the best, as my interests spread across so damn many countries and companies that I would make a mess of it.
I never could seem to concentrate on one specific country, company or model as many of you have done.

On the other hand, it does offer I guess a certain benefit in that I do have lots of really esoteric stuff and I think the best way to share that materiel is to do my thing with posting to the little photo galleries I have just started and to continue to send stuff along that may be of interest to the more specialized sites.

In that context, I have been hard at work downloading stuff from the various Dutch sites you and Hanno put me on to that deal with the former Dutch colonies. My tastes (?) are a bit off beat perhaps but I downloaded lots of photos of military vehicles used in funerals, weddings, parades etc. Are these of interest to you on your site? I will shoot a few across to your site so you can see what I mean.

Again, congrats. I admire you highly.
Bill

thanks!
 

Bill, thank you.

We look forward for all these pics of exotic vehicles you have collected! Thanks also for your postings on
KNIL Vehicles Forum ! They fit it wonderfully. I will reply to them shortly.

Have a Genever on me!
Cheers,
Nuyt

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Hello friends,

The September 2004 edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- heavy updates of the Stadswacht Overvalwagens, Staff and Command Cars and Artillery Tractor chapters,

- new chapters on Gun Trucks in Surinam and Java, Foreign Built Armoured Cars and Ford GP Jeeps,

- the new picture of the month!

The October 2004 edition will deal with tanks and tractors.

Please visit www.overvalwagen.com

Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt
Overvalwagens!

Overvalwagens! updated
 

The October Edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- some updates on the Army Overvalwagen chapter;

- a new chapter on full track tractors (Vickers, Praga, Marmon-Herrington and Caterpillar);

- a new picture of the month!

Please visit www.overvalwagen.com as well as the Overvalwagen Forum!

Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt
Overvalwagens!

Great work, Nuyt!

I'll see if I can find some more pictures of Marmon-Herrington tractors.

Regards,
Hanno

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of Overvalwagens!,

The November Edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- some updates on the Army Overvalwagen and Tractors chapters;

- a new chapter on Vickers Tanks;

- a new picture of the month!

Please visit www.overvalwagen.com as well as the Overvalwagen Forum!

Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt

Overvalwagens!
Overvalwagen Forum

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of MLU Forums and Overvalwagens!,

The December Edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- a new chapter on Fire Fighting Trucks;

- a new chapter on Tank Destroyers in Surinam (T8 GMC);

- a new picture of the month!

Please visit www.overvalwagen.com as well as the Overvalwagen Forum!

Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt
Overvalwagens!

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of Overvalwagens!,

The January 2005 Edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- a new chapter on Marmon-Herrrington tanks;

- a new picture of the month!

Please visit http://www.overvalwagen.com/

as well as the Overvalwagen Forum

http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333


Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of Overvalwagens!,

The Feburary 2005 Edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- a new chapter on ambulances (KNIL and auxiliary forces);

- a new picture of the month!

Please visit http://www.overvalwagen.com/

as well as the Overvalwagen Forum

http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333


Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of Overvalwagens!,

The March 2005 Edition of Overvalwagens! is ready, featuring:

- a new chapter on transport vehicles: Chevrolet trucks;

- a new chapter on transport vehicles: The Quest for 4x4 trucks;

- big updates of the Jeep chapter;

- a new Picture of the Month!

Please visit http://www.overvalwagen.com/

as well as the Overvalwagen Forum:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333


Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of Overvalwagens!

The 10th edition of Overvalwagens! is ready: http://www.overvalwagen.com/

This is the Summer 2005 version, with most chapters updated.

A new chapter on motorcycles has been added.

Please be welcome to visit The Overvalwagen Forum at http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333

Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt

Overvalwagens! updated
 

Dear Reader of Overvalwagens!

The 11th edition of Overvalwagens! is ready: http://www.overvalwagen.com/

This is the 2006 version, with most chapters updated, some heavily.

Check out the new pictures of the Maple Leaf artillery tractor, the Ford/Marmon-Herrington commandowagen, White Scout Cars and South African reconnaissance cars in Indonesian and post-war Dutch service, ex-KNIL Vickers light tanks shipped to Greece (!) and many others!

A brand new chapter on engineer and specialist vehicles has been added.

For the moment this will be the last update. The next will not be here within the year.

Kind regards,

A.F. Nuyt
www.overvalwagen.com

Re: Overvalwagens! updated
 

Nuyt, luckily for us the next year almost starts, so we won't have to wait for the next treat for too long :D

All kidding aside, thanks for all the excellent work done on unearthing all that obscure info on Dutch vehicles.

All the best for 2006!

H.

thanks
 

and the same to you (and everybody else)!

Nuyt

Overvalwagen
 

Is it just me, or has Nuyt's Overwalwagen site gone down?
I have not been able to access it for a couple of days.

Bill

Bill,

Let´s see:

• Main site http://www.overvalwagen.com/ . . . up and running for me
• Forum http://www.network54.com/Forum/330333/ . . . up and running too

What´s up at your end?!?

- Hanno

Hmmm.
I am locked out of both of them on AOL.
I will try some other avenues.
Edit: Works on Firefox and IE so must be AOL. I will contact Nuyt.
Thanks,
Bill

Works fine now, no action on my part.

However, I am now getting logged off of this Forum again.
Go figure.

Bill

FYI Overvalwagen forum has migrated
 

On this forum one often sees links or referrals to the Overvalwagen website or forum.

While the website has gone, the forum has migrated to https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/theovervalwagenforum/

Useful to read if you are interested in the Pacific War 1941-1945 and/or the Dutch military equipment used in the Netherlands East-Indies.