Inside Track
Nachtmarschgerät – Convoy Lighting – Part 3
The Notek Tarnscheinwerfer – Implementation issues In Part 2 We covered the official Bulletin dated 18 August 1939 that, among other things, indicated that back…
March 5, 2021
The Notek Tarnscheinwerfer – Implementation issues In Part 2 We covered the official Bulletin dated 18 August 1939 that, among other things, indicated that back…
The drive shafts are now complete for the Sd.Kfz.223 4 Serie. These now require comprehensive cleaning to remove any oil residue prior to priming and…
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…
Original suppression Entstoerung plug caps for the Sd.Kfz.261 5 Serie have arrived this week. We still require more of these long caps but we have…
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…
Cylinder head gaskets have not yet arrived. We are awaiting annealed copper gaskets for the Sd.Kfz.222 4 Serie 3.5 litre V8 engine. If these are…
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…
Great progress this week on the Sd.Kfz.222 4 Serie 3.5 litre Horch V8 engine. Since there has been so much interest in this engine restoration…
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…
The oil coolers for the Sd.Kfz.222 4 Serie, Sd.Kfz.223 4 Serie and Sd.Kfz.223 3 Serie are well underway. We have had some very welcome updates…
Research into the external fittings including the semaphores (winker) and their retaining brackets for the Einheitsdiesel project has started. This will be a long lead…
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…
Rebuilding of the engine for the Sd.Kfz.222 4 Serie continues. Current focus is on the connecting rods. They face grinding shortly to allow for the…
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…