Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Seen a few nice 1/15,1/16 german field guns and mortar trailers on ebay and want to know if german tanks such as the tiger pulled any trailers at all?Cant find much on google does anyone have any pics or links?

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Possibly. But only in the worst case scenario. The guns were usually pulled by halftracks and other smaller vehicles. Why tie up a piece of already mobile artillery by strapping another weapon or supply trailer to it. The tanks would usually be tasked at all times with missions or defensive duties. The 88 on the tiger and the 75 on the panther could be employed to cover the towed artillery while it was displaced to a new area. If the tanks did pull any kind of trailer it was usually laden with fuel.
Ill have a look through some of my references to see what i can find though.

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

That doesn't sound very likely for the heavy tanks. The King TIger was underpowered and broke down a lot because of it. I dobt they would haul anything so heavy with it.

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Moving this thread over to the "War Room"

Ken

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

yes ,ive a pic of one apzkfpw11 pulling the equal of our water buffalo in russia 1941

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Tanks were too busy and too few for such a menial task typically. The tanks traversed terrian that towed guns would get mired and dragged (like Russia).

Also mobile artillery like tanks was regimentally separated from towed (stationary) artillery pieces. Other than convoys, it is not likely they would be used together.

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Hi Supreme,

There is a photo of Jagdtiger dragging KT. So, "underpowered" means "not strong enough to drag two KT's"? :)))

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Found this while researching Pz III for my HL to Tamiya conversion once its released

"Some of the later Panzer III variants were fitted with turret mounted storage bins (Gepack Kasten). Very common were the canister racks mounted on the turret and/or at the rear of the hull. During early stages of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, Panzer IIIs were equipped with single-axle trailers carrying extra fuel in order to increase their radius of operation. During production, PzKpfw III's design underwent many changes including various modifications made on the turret (e.g. cupola, gun mantlet, vision slots, hatches, armor skirts) and hull (e.g. escape hatch, armor skirts) and superstructure (e.g. air intakes, spaced armor, headlights arrangement) components. Since mid 1943, Panzer IIIs were mounted with Schurzen - 5mm armor skirts. During service and repairs, many Panzer III tanks were up-armored, rearmed and re-equipped with new equipment and components creating completely non-standard variants. Vehicles send to North Africa were equipped with additional air filters and different cooling fan reduction ratio. They were designated as (Tp), Tp being short for Tropisch / Trop / Tropen - tropica"

Source http://www.achtungpanzer.com/pz8.htm Jan 6 ,2007 16:45 ET

RE: Did German tanks pull trailers?
 

Good bit of research there jstewa41,that's an intersesting site,now all i need is a HL panzer III and some pictures of what a fuel trailer looks like to build one and the jobs almost finished!:D