Landships II

I recently visited Hungary and picked up a book on "Foreign AFVs in Hungarian service 1920-1945".
This book is written by� Biro Adam, Eder Miklos and Sarhidai Gyula, as far as Im told, well known researchers in Hungary.

In this book there is some info on LK II in hungarian service, I havent got it all translated (its in hungarian of course) but so far Ive found out that according to this book Hungary bought 14 LK IIs�(in pieces) from Germany with "Swedish assistence" (this�sounds very interesting since Sweden was offered to buy 15 LK IIs from Firma Steffen�& Heyman�in Charlottenburg,�Berlin, but this was turned down since�Sweden got a better offer from Firma�Uge G m b h. So maybe�the swedish diplomats somehow acted as a middlehand between the Hungarians and firma Steffen & Meyer, sources: SPHFs archives).
According to the text these tanks were not assembled until the early thirties when only six (or maybe seven) were assembled and used by the "Police acadamy" (RUISK)� together with some Fiat 3000 B.

What makes this book even more interesting�are the two photos, one of a LK II with a "soldier" in front of it, this we have seen before and�it has been�said that this is a Swedish Strv m21 but the soldier does NOT wear a Swedish unform but hypothetical it could be a foreign soldier�"visiting" Sweden of course. The other�photo though shows something else, its blurry and taken from a distance but one can clearly make out two LK II with MG turrets as well as two Fiat�3000B in the foreground�and some trucks/armouredcars in the background.

This photo�can not have been taken in Sweden since we never had any Fiat 3000Bs here.

Does anyone have any insight in these matters, in Hungarian armourhistory etc and I dont meen old books written 30 years ago but genuine info based on reliable sources.�

Yours Sincerely

Erik Ahlstr�m���

-- Edited by Desert_Erik at 22:43, 2007-10-07