Sunday, June 30, 2019

French Section of Machine Gun Cars (Auto-Mitrailleuses), belonging to the Sordet Cavalry Corp. August 1914.


Auto-Mitrailleuses de la Cavalerie

French Cavalry Machine Gun Car Section, 1914.

A Section formed by two improvised auto-machine guns of the French cavalry ("Auto-Mitrailleuses"), belonging to the Sordet Cavalry Corp. The first one, fully identified, is a Lorraine-Diétrich. The second could also be a Lorraine-Diétrich of a different model. Belgium or more likely the North of France, August 1914.


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Autoametralladoras de la Caballería

 Sección francesa de Autoametralladoras de Caballería, 1914.

Una Sección formada por dos autoametralladoras improvisadas de la caballería francesa ("Auto-Mitrailleuses"), pertenecientes al Cuerpo de Caballería Sordet. La primera de ellas, correctamente identificada, es un Lorraine-Diétrich. La segunda también, muy probablemente, podría tratarse de otro Lorraine-Diétrich de un modelo diferente. Bélgica o más probablemente el norte de Francia, agosto de 1914.

German Motorcycle-Sidecar Machine-Gun with ammunition trailer, 1915.


German Motorcycle-Sidecar Machine-Gun with ammunition trailer. Belgium 1915.

Transformation made by the Germans in 1915, using material captured from the Belgians. In this case it is a motorcycle F.N. to which a platform (sidecar) has been added carrying a Belgian Hotchkiss M1900 machine gun. The tandem was completed with a two-wheeled trailer carrying the ammunition of the machine gun. Transformations similar to this type of "Moto-Side-MG", were also made on the Eastern front, in these cases carrying Russian Maxim machine guns.

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Motocicleta-Sidecar alemana con ametralladora y remolque de municionamiento. Bélgica 1915.

Transformación realizada por los alemanes en 1915, utilizando material capturado a los belgas. En este caso se trata de una motocicleta F.N. a la que se le ha añadido una plataforma (sidecar) portando una ametralladora belga Hotchkiss M1900. El tandem se completaba con un remolque de dos ruedas portando la munición de la ametralladora. Transformaciones similares a este tipo de "Moto-Side-MG", también se realizaron en el frente del Este, en estos casos portando ametralladoras Maxim rusas.

German Motorcycle-Sidecar Machine-Gun with ammunition trailer. Belgium-1915.


German Motorcycle-Sidecar Machine-Gun with ammunition trailer. 
Belgium-1915.

Italian Lancia-Ansaldo 1ZM Armored Car M1918.


Italian Lancia-Ansaldo 1ZM Armored Car M1918.

Armed with three St.-Etienne 8-mm French machine guns Model 1907. Two of them in the turret and another in the rear porthole of the vehicle.

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Coche Blindado italiano Lancia-Ansaldo 1ZM M1918

Armado con tres ametralladoras francesas St. Étienne de 8-mm Modelo 1907. Dos de ellas en la torreta y otra en el portillo trasero del vehículo.

British RNAS Lanchester Armored Car No. 1-A-1, captured in Russia in 1917.


British Lanchester Armored Car No. 1-A-1, belonging to the RNAS, captured by 
the Austro-Hungarians or by the Germans in Russia in 1917.

Belgian Minerva and Sava Armored Cars. Furnes, West Flanders, Belgium, late 1914.

Belgian Minerva and Sava Armored Cars. 
Furnes, West Flanders, Belgium, late 1914.

German 9-cm Flak System Schnetzler.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Schnetzler
Standar model

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Improvised Polish Armored Car Packard 'Bukowski' No. 1


Improvised Polish Armored Car Packard 'Bukowski' No. 1

Made in the city of Lviv, Ukraine (later Poland), in 1920 on the chassis of a 3-ton Packard truck.

See another view of the same armor in this blog:

Friday, April 13, 2012
'Bukowski' Polish Improvised Packard Armored Car. Built in 1920.
https://armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com/2012/04/bukowski-polish-improvised-packard.html



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Coche Blindado polaco improvisado Packard 'Bukowski' Nº 1

Realizado en la ciudad de Lviv, Ucrania (después Polonia), en 1920 sobre el chasis de un camión Packard de 3 toneladas.

Ver otra vista del mismo blindado en este blog:
Viernes 13 de abril de 2012
'Bukowski' Polish Improvised Packard Armored Car. Built in 1920.
https://armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com/2012/04/bukowski-polish-improvised-packard.html

Saturday, June 22, 2019

German 9-cm Flak System Schnetzler. Standar model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Schnetzler
Standar model

German 9-cm Flak System Wohlgemut. Standar & Special model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Wohlgemut. Standar model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Wohlgemut. Special model.

German 9-cm Flak System Metz. Standar model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Metz
 Standar model

German 9-cm Flak System Plett. Improved special model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Plett 

Special model equipped with a static counterweight in the tube of the gun.

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See also, in my other Blog dedicated to the Antiaircraft Artillery of the Great War, the following post:

Ver también, en mi otro Blog dedicado a la Artillería Antiaérea de la Gran Guerra, el siguiente post:

Sunday, July 19, 2020
German 9-cm Flak System-Plett, Modified. Ca. 1916.

German 9-cm Flak System Plett. Special model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Plett

Special model equipped with a static counterweight in the tube of the gun.

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See also, in my other Blog dedicated to the Antiaircraft Artillery of the Great War, the following post:

Ver también, en mi otro Blog dedicado a la Artillería Antiaérea de la Gran Guerra, el siguiente post:

Sunday, July 19, 2020
German 9-cm Flak System-Plett, Modified. Ca. 1916.

German 9-cm Flak System Plett. Standar model.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 9-cm Flak System Plett. Standar model.

German 9-cm C/79. Unknown Flak rotating assembly.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)


A German Anti-Aircraft Gun: The 9-cm C/79 Flak, in an elaborate and unknown rotating assembly.

In this and the following post I will continue showing the different types of 9-cm antiaircraft systems, related in a previous post.

 See the post:

 German 9-cm-Flak 'System Schaafhausen' (Anti-Aircraft Gun) 

THE GERMAN OBSOLETE FIELD ARTILLERY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, MASSIVELY CONVERTED IN ANTI-AIRCRAFT ARTILLERY (BAK/FLAK) DURING THE GREAT WAR.



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Un cañón antiaéreo alemán: El 9-cm C/79 Flak, en un elaborado y desconocido ensamblaje rotatorio.

En éste y en los siguientes post voy a continuar mostrando los diferentes tipos de sistemas antiaéreos de 9-cm relacionados anteriormente en otro post.

Ver el post:


German 9-cm-Flak 'System Schaafhausen' (Anti-Aircraft Gun)

 LA OBSOLETA ARTILLERÍA DE CAMPAÑA ALEMANA DEL SIGLO XIX, CONVERTIDA MASIVAMENTE EN ARTILLERÍA ANTIAÉREA (BAK / FLAK) DURANTE LA GRAN GUERRA.

https://armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com/2019/03/german-9-cm-flak-system-schaafhausen.html

Belgian motorized armored column, during maneuvers in the North of France in 1916.


Belgian motorized armored column, during maneuvers in the North of France in 1916.

Observe in the extreme left, a Lanchester Armored Car (possibly followed by two other Lanchester).
 Five Minerva Armored Cars open the march. In the background there are other vehicles, some auxiliary, that complete the formation.

German 7,7-cm L/35 Wagenflak (fran 97) Rheinmetall. Tell el Sheria, Palestine 1917.

(German Anti-Aircraft Gun System, WWI)

German 7,7 cm L/35 Wagen-Flak (fran 97) Rheinmetall, 1915

View of one of the two pieces of 7.7-cm L/35 (f) that made up the Wagenflak Battery for the East.

Tell the Sheria, Palestine 1917

TheseAs a curiosity we will add that for the displacements of the Battery in Palestine, shot of bullocks were used. They were formed by 4 or 5 pairs of oxen for the drag of each of the two Flak cars that made up the Battery.

French 7,5-cm L/35 Field Gun Mle.1897, captured by the Germans and transformed at Anti-Aircraft Gun Cart (Wagenflak) by Rheinmetall in 1915.

Rheinmetall transformed and manufactured 26 Wagen-Flak. These cars carried, indistinctly, transformed cannons of Russian or French origin.

See another post on this blog with a Wagen-Flak on the Western Front:
https://armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-very-rare-gun-german-conversion-77-cm.html


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Carro antiaéreo alemán (Wagen-Flak) de 7,7 cm L/35 (fran 97). 
Fabricado por Rheinmetall en 1915.

Vista de una de las dos piezas de 7,7-cm L/35 (f) que componían la Batería Wagen-Flak destinada a Oriente.

Tell el Sheria, Palestina 1917

Como curiosidad añadiremos que para los desplazamientos de la Batería en Palestina, se utilizaban reatas o tiros de bueyes. Éstas estaban formadas por 4 o 5 parejas de bueyes para el arrastre de cada uno de los dos carros Flak que componían la Batería.

Rheinmetall tranformó y fabricó 26 Wagen-Flak. Estos carros portaban, indistintamente, cañones transformados de orígen ruso o francés.

Ver otro post de este blog con un Flak-Wagen en el frente occidental:
https://armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-very-rare-gun-german-conversion-77-cm.html


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NEW POST - NUEVO POST

See also the post of my new Blog: "Anti-Aircraft Artillery in the WWI", in which one of the two Wagen-Flak captured by the Australians appears:

Ver también el post de mi nuevo Blog: "Anti-Aircraft Artillery in the WWI", en el que aparece uno de los dos Wagen-Flak capturado por los australianos: 
 

Tuesday, November 26, 2019
German 7,7-cm L/35 (franz 97) Wagenflak Rheinmetall M1915


Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) Lanchester Armoured Car, 1915.


Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) Lanchester Armoured Car. 
First vehicle [Command] of the 3rd Section [C] of the 5th Squadron belonging to the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division (RNACD). 
United Kingdom, before leaving for France in April 1915.

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Lanchester Armored Car No. 1 [Command Vehicle] of Section C [3rd Section] of the 5th Squadron belonging to the Royal Naval Armored Car Division (RNACD)
The photograph was taken at Wormwood Scrubs, Kensington, North West London, headquarters of the RNACD. To the left of the photograph, partial view of one of the two large gas tanks of Gas Light & Coke Co., on the right, buildings of the Talbot workshops.

5 Squadron (TO&E)

A Section (1st Section)

Lanchester Armored Car No.1 (5-A-1)
Lanchester Armored Car No.2 (5-A-2)
Lanchester Armored Car No.3 (5-A-3)
Lanchester Armored Car No.4 (5-A-4)
Seabrook Armored Car No.5 (5-A-5) 

B Section (2nd Section)

Lanchester Armored Car No.1 (5-B-1)
Lanchester Armored Car No.2 (5-B-2)
Lanchester Armored Car No.3 (5-B-3)
Lanchester Armored Car No.4 (5-B-4)
Seabrook Armored Car No.5 (5-B-5) 

C Section (3rd Section)

Lanchester Armored Car No.1 (5-C-1)
Lanchester Armored Car No.2 (5-C-2)
Lanchester Armored Car No.3 (5-C-3)
Lanchester Armored Car No.4 (5-C-4)
Seabrook Armored Car No.5 (5-C-5) 

All the squads gave their armored cars their name.
The names given to the armored cars of the 5th Squadron, all started with the letter F.

All 15 armored cars, 12 Lanchester and 3 Seabrook, were delivered to the unit at the end of March 1915.
The following month the Squadron was sent to France.

Later, in May 1915, the 3 Seabrook of the 5th Squadron and the 3 Seabrook of the 2nd Squadron were removed from both units to form a new armored formation, homogeneous with respect to the speed, manoeuvrability and armament of their vehicles: the 16th Squadron.

The new numbering (theoretical) of the Seabrooks of this formation was:

A-1
A-2
A-3
A-4
A-5
A-6

The 16th Squadron operated in France with the 12 Rolls-Royce of the 2nd Squadron commanded by the Duke of Westminster.


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Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 1 [Vehículo de Mando] de la Sección C [3ª Sección] del 5º Escuadrón perteneciente a la División de Coches Blindados de la Marina Real [Royal Naval Armoured Car Division (RNACD)]. 

La fotografía fue tomada en Wormwood Scrubs, Kensington, North West London, sede de la RNACD. A la izquierda de la fotografía, vista parcial de uno de los dos grandes depósitos de gasolina de la empresa Gas Light & Coke Co., a la derecha, edificios de los talleres Talbot.

5º Escuadrón (TO&E)

Sección A (1ª Sección)

Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 1 (5-A-1)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 2 (5-A-2)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 3 (5-A-3)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 4 (5-A-4)
Coche Blindado Seabrook Nº 5 (5-A-5)

Sección B (2ª Sección)

Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 1 (5-B-1)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 2 (5-B-2)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 3 (5-B-3)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 4 (5-B-4)
Coche Blindado Seabrook Nº 5 (5-B-5)

Sección C (3ª Sección)

Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 1 (5-C-1)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 2 (5-C-2)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 3 (5-C-3)
Coche Blindado Lanchester Nº 4 (5-C-4)
Coche Blindado Seabrook Nº 5 (5-C-5)

Todos los escuadrones dieron nombre [bautizaron] a sus coches blindados. 
Los nombres dados a los coches blindados del 5º Escuadrón, comenzaban todos por la letra F.

La totalidad de los 15 coches blindados, 12 Lanchester y 3 Seabrook, fueron entregados a la unidad a finales de marzo de 1915. 
Al mes siguiente el Escuadrón fue enviado a Francia. 

Posteriormente, en Mayo de 1915, los 3 Seabrook del 5º Escuadrón y los 3 Seabrook del 2º Escuadrón, fueron retirados de ambas unidades para formar una nueva formación blindada, homogénea respecto a la velocidad, maniobrabilidad y armamento de sus vehículos: el 16º Escuadrón. 

La nueva numeración (teórica) de los Seabrooks de esta formación fue:

A-1
A-2
A-3
A-4
A-5
A-6

El 16º Escuadrón operó en Francia junto a los 12 Rolls-Royce del 2º Escuadrón al mando del Duque de Westmister.