"What kind of trucks?" Topic

Looking at the list from MicroMark for 11th Panzer Division in July 1943….

Adding up the vehicles I see I need 196 Trucks and 25 Lorries.

Was there a standard type of truck assigned to different unit types (i.e. Panzer battalions got Opels, infantry got Daimlers) or would it have been more of a mixed bag – a truck is a truck is a truck?

And I emailed MicroMark to ask the difference between a truck and a lorrie….

If all else fails I'll just go with what the Flames of War books list….

Trucks would be light transports, eg Kfz70, while lorries would be medium transports, eg Opel Blitz.

The Kfz 70 was the basic troop carrier army wide while Opel Blitz and the other 3 ton types were mainly for transporting beans, boots and bullets

trucks, opel, ford, Mercedes and lots of captured ones like zil, gaz, Renaults ect.
light trucks, protz, Mercedes, opel, horch. and captured frnch, british and Russian ones and in some cases even American ones captured from the Russians.

I need 196 Trucks and 25 Lorries.

And I emailed MicroMark to ask the difference between a truck and a lorrie….

What's the difference between a truck and a lorry?
Not a lot it seems:
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IMHO, we in the UK call it a lorry, our cousins across the pond call it a truck …

yes truck, lorry, wagon, we all use different terms for the same thing really.
light, medium or heavy

Heard from MM. Trucks are light, lorries are heavy.

While the terms are blurred and mean essentially the same thing now, back in WW2 a 'Lorry' was indeed a vehicle heavier than 15cwt, whereas a 'Truck' was anything up to 15cwt but bigger than a car.

(Just to add confusion, '15cwt' came to mean anything in that class of vehicle, rather than an actual weight. Consequently, armoured vehicles such as White Scout Cars and M5 Halftracks were designated as '15cwt' because they filled the slot in the orbat previously filled by a 15cwt truck)

I'm not sure your asking the right question. Shouldn't it be "Am I insane for wanting to paint 196 trucks"?

Shouldn't it be "Am I insane for wanting to paint 196 trucks"?

You can never have too many trucks …

As above, in UK usage and truck is a small tranpsot vehcicle up to 15cwt (ish), while a lorry is something bigger, typically a 3 tonner.

Depending on what you are doing, I really, really wouldn't paint 196 lorries. Most sensible Schutzen got our of their lorries over 1000m from the objective in full coveer and then fought diismounted. A few trucks to indicate 'mounted' status are more than sufficient.

There are of course exceptions, such as the death ride of DAK on Totensonntag.

I'd do transport for all the HQ units, scouts, artillery observers, ambulances, and just one infantry company. Maybe all the towing vehicles for one heavy/weapons company, too. Well, doing the full division I might do transports for a whole battalion, instead of one infantry company.

That's about it, assuming 1 model = 1 vehicle.

To add to the confusion of terms, on "Doc Martin" they have referred to a pick-up truck as a "jeep."