Armoured Cars of the German Army and Freikorps CSM 1007
Before World War One, the militaries of all powers generally observed experiments regarding armoured cars with interest, but they demonstrated great restraint when it came to adopting them in their peacetime establishments. Thus, when war came in August 1914, none of the belligerent armies were equipped with organic armoured cars.
This publication describes the development, design and combat use on the Eastern and Western Front of the three wartime German armoured car types built by Ehrhardt, Daimler and Bussing. It also looks at the use and development of the many captured types manufactured by Minerva, Austin, Garford-Putilov, Lancia, Fiat, Peugeot, Packard and others that served under the Iron Cross both in the Imperial German Army in 1914-18 and later in the Freikorps of 1918-20.
Before World War One, the militaries of all powers generally observed experiments regarding armoured cars with interest, but they demonstrated great restraint when it came to adopting them in their peacetime establishments. Thus, when war came in August 1914, none of the belligerent armies were equipped with organic armoured cars.
This publication describes the development, design and combat use on the Eastern and Western Front of the three wartime German armoured car types built by Ehrhardt, Daimler and Bussing. It also looks at the use and development of the many captured types manufactured by Minerva, Austin, Garford-Putilov, Lancia, Fiat, Peugeot, Packard and others that served under the Iron Cross both in the Imperial German Army in 1914-18 and later in the Freikorps of 1918-20.
Before World War One, the militaries of all powers generally observed experiments regarding armoured cars with interest, but they demonstrated great restraint when it came to adopting them in their peacetime establishments. Thus, when war came in August 1914, none of the belligerent armies were equipped with organic armoured cars.
This publication describes the development, design and combat use on the Eastern and Western Front of the three wartime German armoured car types built by Ehrhardt, Daimler and Bussing. It also looks at the use and development of the many captured types manufactured by Minerva, Austin, Garford-Putilov, Lancia, Fiat, Peugeot, Packard and others that served under the Iron Cross both in the Imperial German Army in 1914-18 and later in the Freikorps of 1918-20.