1/72 Leichte Wehrmacht Schlepper (leWS)

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In 1942, the Adler firm under the injunction of Hitler, receives the order to work out two prototypes of a vehicle called leWS (leichter Wehrmachtschlepper = light military tractor) with a simple design and easily adaptable intended for hard realities of the eastern front. The leWS is very different from Sd.Kfz.250, finished the sophistication, the chassis of this new vehicle is very simple (rudimentary): wheels with sheet steel pressed disc, tires with low pressure, tracks of steel with dry axes and sprocket-wheels and road wheels identical to those the tanks. The (front) cabin and the engine compartment are laid out in the same way that on a truck. The machine is propelled by one 4 cylinders Maybach HL 30 allowing only a maximum speed of 27 km/h. The floor of the body is in fact a simple plate. It was enough to bolt there the various artillery mountings and other superstructures which one wished to install there. Certain specimens without the cabin was to be manufactured so that a special superstructure can be installed there. This machine will never be born. An entirely tracked truck, "Raupenschlepper Ost" (tracked tractor for the eastern front) simpler and less expensive tightened produces in the place of the leWS. Two other prototypes of the leWS will be considered but will never be born. 

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