Landships II

Tankograd World War One Special 1016

FAHRZEUGRARITÄTEN – ‘Hedi’ and other Rare and Unusual Vehicles

----Coming in September 2026----

Foreword by the Author: This book is a special project dear to my heart. The main weapon systems of the Imperial German Army in World War One have been covered in past volumes in this series, including panzers, tanks, armoured cars, trucks, motorcycles, ambulances and specialised vehicles. In some of these books I wanted to add chapters that expanded the topic discussed, or to cover the story of certain vehicles that extended beyond the end of the war. However, I could not do so if I were to keep the publications within their necessary economic frame. With the book you hold in your hands now, dear reader, I was finally able to fill these gaps! Yet it took quite a serious amount of research time and admittedly backbreaking financial investment to achieve this goal:

The chapters on Straßenlokomotiven and Straßendampfwagen alone required over half the entire research time for this project, simply because there is less than rudimentary knowledge about the German side of steam traction engines that has survived to this day, and basically no general expert in the field is amongst us any longer. As a result, this chapter is the first-ever extensive documentation on this topic! The chapter on the Schupo-Sonderwagen and Gepanzerter Kraftwagen is a different case, as it expands the limited story of German World War One armoured cars into the much more exciting post-war, anti-riot police and Reichswehr usage of this vehicle family. I am also particularly proud that, after thirty years of collecting, the story of Überlandwagen fully tracked lorries can now be told, including all the manufacturers. The highlight of this book is the story of the famous ‘Hedi’ Freikorps anti-riot tank that can now be covered in a comprehensive way with high-resolution photos and ultimately a scale drawing.

All these chapters compare to hitherto extremely limited coverage in other publications. This is a historically important book, with almost all of its material never published before. Enjoy!

CONTENTS

01.          Fully Tracked Transport Vehicles

01.1        Überlandwagen Fully Tracked Lorry

01.2        Dür-Wagen Fully Tracked Lorry

01.3        Orion-Wagen Fully Tracked Lorry

01.4        Lanz Fully Tracked Lorry/Tractor

01.5        Captured Renault FP Fully Tracked Lorry

01.6        Fully Tracked and Half-Tracked Trucks

02.           ‘Hedi’ and the Freikorps Anti-Riot Tanks

03.           Steam-Powered Road Locomotives

03.1        Fowler-Magdeburg Road Locomotives

03.2        Kemna Road Locomotives

03.3        Heucke Road Locomotives

03.4        Lanz Road Locomotives

03.5        Road Locomotives from Other Manufacturers

03.6        Mobile Firing Range Target Systems

04.           Steam-Powered Cargo Trucks

05.           Gun Transport Trucks and Self-Propelled Guns

06.          Schupo-SW and Gp.Kw. - Successors to World War One Armoured Cars

06.1        Stop-Gap Solutions Ehrhardt/19 and Daimler/19

06.2        Schupo-Sonderwagen Ehrhardt/21     

06.3        Schupo-Sonderwagen Benz/21               

06.4        Schupo-Sonderwagen Daimler/21        

06.5        Gp.Kw. / Sd.Kfz. 3 Armoured Personnel Carrier

In 96 pages this publication is lavishly illustrated with 205 black-and-white photographs and nine graphics, the vast majority of which have never been published before, plus a five-perspective scale drawing of the Freikorps ‘Hedi’ anti-riot tank. Limited edition: 999 copies

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