About Geschutzwagin

Hi. Is there any one has any info of what kind of steel was used to build the Geschutzwagen tank?
Please.

 

I suspect more than one. Are you talking armor, structural steel, components, all of the above ...?

 

Which Geschützwagen?



Etc.

 

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Awright sunshine!
There's yer WW1/Russki/captured field piece bolted to an old enemy chassis. Hope you've got good mechanical skills.
Crack on!


I'm guessing Francis is interested in the Tiger one.
It's always Tigers.

 

That guy looks awfully happy for a Deutsche Soldat in an open-topped steel vehicle during the Russian winter. Schnapps must have been involved.

 

A lot of the improvised armour on French and British chassis was built under the direction of Major Alfred Becker at a factory in Paris, using conversion kits manufactured by Alkett of Hannover. You will more about Becker and many of the images already posted on these web sites
Alfred Becker - Wikipedia
http://ww2f.com/threads/major-alfred-becker-and-the-paris-baukommando.13328/

Read about his boss Feuchtinger on my blog here Edgar Feuchtinger – a General from “Allo Allo” out of “Catch 22” | The Observation Post

 

My favourite Becker job, and one of my all-time favourite AFVs is the MkVI GW(e)
LefH16 mounted on the impossibly small base of a captured MkVI Light. Primarily I love it just because of the aesthetics, though despite it looking like it'd roll over backwards after firing a single shot, by all accounts it acquitted itself rather well.
Tanks Encyclopedia covers it as well as anywhere:

10.5cm LeFH 16 auf Geschutzwagen Mk.VI(e)

 

So shall we go to the Tiger place?
I bet the original question was about Tiger GW. Paper Panzer fun with the 'Cricket 17'...

Beginning of '42. Waffenamt orders a 17cm gerat k43 on an SPG chassis.
Expected delivery '43. (ho ho).
58 tonnes, 30mm front plate, Tiger II running gear with a couple of extra bogie wheels each side.
21cm L31 Howitzer also to be considered.
The kicker, was that they wanted the pieces to be dis-mountable & usable in conventional field gun form (see 'Heuschrecke' for more discussion of this very German concept. It's defensible, but definitely odd.)
Much fannying about ensues. Foldable sides to fit loading gauges, special railway trucks etc. etc. Eventually decided to go with more conventional SPG layout.
Cancelled in 1944.

It captures people's attention as it's so f big, and has that magic 'Tiger' appellation. Features in those pics/films of German heavy/experimental gear (stockpiled at Haustenbeck? I forget.).
In reality, a bit of an intriguing irrelevance.

 

German Ordnance: Vell, vee haff diese wagens, so let's put schutzens on them!

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Germany, 1939-45: Masters of improvisation-at all levels!