Postwar Hamburg Germany

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Interesting too how many different ages of tanks are in there. In the photo where they’re cutting up the Sherman hull, it’s a fairly late one with outboard lifting eyes (meaning late 1944 or so production), while the lower hull in the foreground is an rivetted one, which means it must have been made in 1942 by Pressed Steel Car Company.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Some more photos of ex-British Army vehicles awaiting scrapping in Hamburg in 1957.

Reportedly, the scrap from the broken-up vehicles was shipped to blast furnaces in the UK.

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Source: expired eBay auction "1957 Dumps Of Army Equipment In Hamburg Shipped To Britain, Scrap..."


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Source: https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/lukas-...ert-ld.1521116


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Source: [internet]

[Alex van de Wetering]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Some more photos of ex-British Army vehicles awaiting scrapping in Hamburg in 1957.

Reportedly, the scrap from the broken-up vehicles was shipped to blast furnaces in the UK.

Source: expired eBay auction "1957 Dumps Of Army Equipment In Hamburg Shipped To Britain, Scrap..."

These all appear to be Windsor Carriers. I don't remember seeing this picture before; thanks Hanno.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Alex van de Wetering

These all appear to be Windsor Carriers. I don't remember seeing this picture before; thanks Hanno.

I agree on the Windsors. Taking into account that they were issued only shortly before the end of WW2 (but more were issued after, I reckon), some of these may have been as good as new when piled up for scrapping...