Started life as an Ural, Motor was changed to R75 BMW as I recall, along with other mods.
http://www.ural.cc/index.php?en_special_editions
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Started life as an Ural, Motor was changed to R75 BMW as I recall, along with other mods.
http://www.ural.cc/index.php?en_special_editions
Caption reads:
Members of the Watford Womens Home Defense Unit practice their aim on the rifle range, as other members wait their turn to shoot in 1942 (left). This unit was composed mainly of business and professional women who took the rifle instruction during their leisure time.
It was a German made postwar MG1 that used a German non disintegrating belt and that was not given back to the previous owners.
As for the German wartime font for plates and such. DIN 1451 is the ticket, actually has an interesting bit of history in itself and started life as a font for railroads. The DIN tweaked it a couple times so variations will be seen.
Caption reads.
Members of the Watford Womens Home Defense Unit practice their aim on the rifle range, as other members wait their turn to shoot in 1942 (left). This unit was composed mainly of business and professional women who took the rifle instruction during their leisure time.
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Thanks, XCR.
That's the one I was looking for.
Thanks, too, Diopter. The Nazis were sure dabblers in every aspect of life, weren't they?
That's the one I was looking for.
Thanks, too, Diopter. The Nazis were sure dabblers in every aspect of life, weren't they?
Thanks, XCR.
That's the one I was looking for.
Thanks, too, Diopter. The Nazis were sure dabblers in every aspect of life, weren't they?
The first Example looks authentic and has the appearance given when stencils are employed to identify stores. The printing on the second pic appears to be made without a stencil...which is unusual.
Well considering the enormous amounts of kit and equipment made and used across the Reich variations will be encountered even if the DIN dictates how things ought to be. Like all things where a buck or euro is available the aging, reproduction and misrepresenting of German WWII equipment happens...................a lot. I would suspect the second box was "made better" appearance wise, for whatever reason.
^ Yes it certainly looks like someone sat down with a squirrel hair brush and made those letters "pop" and may even have repainted and "aged" the case itself. Fact is, where there is a buck(or euro) to be made people will do it. And never, never, ever underestimate the skills of those who fake markings, stamps or paint and no doubt the rifle (Mauser) experts can weigh in on that.
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Here's Veronica Lake and, I think, a T6.
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