Special motor vehicle
Special vehicle (abbreviated . Sd.Kfz English special purpose vehicle ) is amongst the collective name for specifically for the German Wehrmacht made military vehicles of all types and modification until the end of World War II were designed, constructed or used.
The numbering was consecutively ascending and followed a general system that was essentially dependent on the type, purpose, use or designation of the special vehicle in question. So was Sd.Kfz. 101 for example for the Panzerkampfwagen I (also: PzKpfw I or Panzer I ).
The versions derived from a certain basic vehicle usually kept the number of the basic version, with the additional number specifying the respective version (example: Sd.Kfz. 251 medium armored armored personnel carrier (basic version); derived from this Sd.Kfz. 251/22 ... with 7 , 5 cm pack 40 L / 46). Exceptions and special regulations, such as for prey vehicles, were possible.
The system followed the following rough classification:
- 1 to 99: tractor
- 100 to 199: battle tanks
- 200 to 299: reconnaissance and armored personnel carriers
- from 300: mine clearers and load carriers
- without number: prototypes and looted vehicles
GDR
In the GDR , too, military vehicles were built under the designation Sonderkraftfahrzeug after the Second World War , such as the special Kfz-1 (SK-1) scout vehicle and the SK-2 water cannon .
See also
- Half-track
- List of special vehicles of the Wehrmacht
- List of tracked vehicles of the Wehrmacht
- Special car
Different meaning
Another meaning of the word “other motor vehicle” is mobile home . For this, certain minimum criteria must be met (seating, sleeping places, storage space, kitchen). But other vehicles are also entered in the vehicle documents in Germany as “other vehicles ” . For example fire and rescue vehicles, emergency vehicles, hearses and a few other vehicles that were built for special purposes. According to the StVO, other permissible maximum speeds sometimes apply to special vehicles. While trucks over 3.5 t GVW max. 80 km / h are allowed to drive, other vehicles over 3.5 t GVW up to 100 km / h are permitted.
literature
- Werner Oswald : Motor vehicles and tanks of the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, ISBN 3-87943-850-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Chamberlain and Hillary Doyle: Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two , p.17, 1978
- ↑ http://www.wildcamper.de/wohnmobilausbau/tuev-dekra