Preserved German Tanks A7V to Panzer IV

German Light and Medium Tanks of the First and Second World Wars Preserved in Museums and Collections,
PRESERVED GERMAN TANKS Introduction This book details the many historic German armoured vehicles that have been preserved around the world. It contains vehicles on display by themselves (for example, battlefield memorials and relics) as well as those in public museums and collections. It also contains some vehicles, owned by these museums and collections, which require restoration and are therefore not openly displayed at present. This is believed to be the only complete source of information giving details of what German tanks have been preserved and where they can be seen. For many it will come as a surprise that numerous fascinating but very rare vehicles such as the A7V, Panzerjiger I, Schwere Minenrdumer, Flammpanzer III, Waffenträger and Panzer IV/70 Zwischenlôsung are still in existence and can be seen and photographed. It is intentional that the rarer vehicles receive as much coverage as the more common ones since information on the latter is much easier to come by from other sources. The visual distinctions between the different models of each vehicle have been covered in detail since this is information that is of interest to many people (modellers particularly) but can usually only be found by scouring specialist publications. At the start of each section information is given in full on the vehicle specification (armament, armour thickness, and so on); it should be noted that this information is given in the following sections only where it differs from that in the preceding section. If any errors or omissions are found in this work please contact the author in writing at the address given on the back of the title page. Any changes required will be included in future editions or reprints. My thanks go to those who have already provided photographs and highlighted errors for the next edition of Preserved Tanks in France. For these works, it would be particularly useful if chassis numbers could be included for all vehicles as this is the only guaranteed way to determine their manufacturing history and model. Therefore, if you do have this, or any other information, please write in. Those with a computer and modem are welcome to get in touch through, or join in the discussions on, the Military forum of CompuServe.Since chassis numbers are not yet available, and there is no other register of these vehicles, it is planned that vehicles will have a unique reference number in each series (see page 4), for example the PzKpfw IV that used to be at Bovington, then went to Munster, then to Trier, and is now back at Munster (restored and in new markings) can always be identified as “Preserved German Tanks: PzKpfw IV Number 4” or “PGT: PzIV #4”. This will be true in all future editions, even though new vehicles are likely to be added. To aid in this and to avoid confusion, all vehicles will be crossreferenced between series. For example, the German tanks in Preserved Tanks in France are all cross-referenced in this work. It should be noted that this work is intended only to cover preserved, fully tracked, armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and does not feature armoured personnel carriers, half-tracks, armoured cars or other military vehicles. The author would be interested to hear if there is interest in extending the coverage, for example to other fully tracked vehicles (such as Goliath demolition vehicles or RSO carriers), to half tracked vehicles (such as the SdKfz 250 and 251) or even to all armoured vehicles (such as the SdKfz 222 and 234 armoured cars). Finally, for those interested in statistics, this volume details 140 preserved vehicles.

• taal : Engels
• binding : Gelijmd
• conditie : Goed
• pagina's : 96
• gewicht : 0.240 kg
• uitgever : Armour Archive
• auteur : Trevor Larkum