In the past, Nuts & Bolts have repeatedly taken up topics that had already been worked on, when sufficient new material was available. In the case of the armoured reconnaissance vehicles of the former German Wehrmacht, our 1st volume was the 4th issue of our series ever. After we had dealt exhaustively with the Büssing eight-wheelers of the GS series in Vol. 36 and 37 and with the Büssing TP series in Vol. 40, and after the small armoured reconnaissance vehicles had been revised in Vol. 47, the last model to be dealt with was the series of the six-wheeled armoured reconnaissance vehicles. Due to the small number of vehicles, the search for material proved to be very difficult. But after twelve years of intensive searching and with the help of countless friends, the collection grew larger and larger and we are pleased to be able to announce issue 48 of our series for the end of October 2023. The six-wheeled armoured reconnaissance vehicles Sd.kfz. 231, 232 and 263 from Büssing, Daimler-Benz and Magirus. Available at the familiar unchanged price from the end of October 2023.

Content:

232 pages of German-English text and photo captions

326 contemporary photos

25 photos of a model built by Tony Greenland, partly on the homepage

79 scale drawings in 1:35 by John Rue of all known experimental and test versions

19 camouflage schemes after historical photos by Diego Vaquerizo

5 tables with technical and historical details

2 KStN wartime strength diagrams by Joachim Baschin

22 unit descriptions of the reconnaissance units equipped with this type