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Three firms competed for the design, that were all first rolled out in July 1915. Daimler made one (The Daimler/15), Büssig made one (the A5P) and the automobile firm of Ehrhardt in Düsseldorf made one, the Ehrhardt E-V/4. All designs were pretty similar: heavy, squat fourwheel vehicles. By then the Trench stalemate in the West had set in, and the German High Command started again to lose interest in a weapon, pretty useless in that type of Warfare. However, in the autumn of 1916 the three vehicles were formed into a unit ("Panzerkraftwagen MG-Zug 1") and sent East, to the Rumanian front. There, where Warfare still was fluid, they met with considerable sucess, and late in 1916 more Armoured Cars of the Ehrhardt type were finally ordered. From the outside, the production version ("1917") didn't differed much from the earlier version ("1915"), but there were some considerable internal changes: among other things the armour was much improved. The first copies were delivered in July 1917, and all in all 12 vehicles were made, and then used to equip five more MG-Zugs, that were used with sucess both in the East, and also on the Italian Front. |
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is made from MGM kit, and built pretty much out of the box. The front chassis was detailed, with springs etc. The kit is good, but in this picture - larger than life - the rivets do look a bit queer. The kits rather plain MG was also substituted for a new one made in resin, taken from an aircraft kit. |
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The German Army started the Great War without any AFV:s, and when they in the early months of the
conflict, encountered both Belgian and British Armoured Cars, they were reluctantly
impressed. As a result, in October 1914, the German High Command ordered the construction of German Armoured Cars.
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