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Old 07-07-04, 21:47
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Default Re: F15 Kubelwagen

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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
If anything, they help to show how a Kübelwagen body (built along a largely standardised design) was fitted to captured chassis like the F15.
I just looked up the article "The Wehrmacht's Umbau-Wagen" (Wheels & Tracks issue No. 30, p.20-27) in which Bart Vanderveen mentions:
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The first category Umbau-Wagen, the sophisticated Kfz. 15 (and similar roles) or Kübel-type car bodies on foreign military chassis which had been abandoned mainly in France and the Western Desert, all in the period of 1939-42.
Canadian chassis used for similar conversions probably originated predominantly from Greece; some of them (e.g. WH-449955, on F15 chassis) saw service in Russia. Like the German originals, these models all had the pioneer tools on the sides of the rear locker. Later, when additional jerricans were carried on the sides, shovel and pickaxe were moved to the rear.

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