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…
Onwards A major effort over the past year during the pandemic has just concluded. This was to repatriate number of key components of the Foundation’s…
To research the leichter Panzerspähwagen it is necessary to avail of every source of information possible. Building on the historical outline laid down in Panzer…
Is the bin back? We discussed the discovery in our last piece (Part 1) of how late ‘low net’ 4.Serie Sd.Kfz.222 (Ausf.A) predominantly has a…
Huge Progress The long awaited (also by ourselves) second Jagdpanther project has not been neglected. On the contrary we have been very successful gathering key…
Putting a date on delivery Our research into the fittings on the Aufbau (body) for our Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie involved the full examination of the Winkerschutz…
Work In Progress With the reassembly of the Panzerwanne for the Foundation’s Sd.Kfz.223 3.Serie and Sd.Kfz.222 4.Serie progressing it is now time to sort out…
The Foundation’s research into the exterior finish of the four original leichter Panzerspähwagen that we are currently restoring brings us into detailed and interesting areas.…
Restoration of the driver’s seat box A large number of you have been asking for Renault FT articles to be published once more. Let us…