Wz.29 ( Polish: Samochód pancerny wz. 29 - “1929 model armored car”) - Polish armored car of the 1930s . The first armored car of a completely Polish design, wz.29 was created by designer R. Gundlach on the chassis of a Ursus A truck in 1929 . In 1931 , the Ursus factory , which supplied the chassis, and the Warsaw Central Automobile Workshops, which supplied the armored corps, assembled 13 armored vehicles of this type. Wz.29 remained in service with Poland until the outbreak of World War II . On September 1, 1939 , there were still 8 units remaining in the troops, which were actively used in the September battles , during which all were lost or destroyed by crews in order to exclude the enemy’s capture.
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 Model Samochód pancerny wz. 29 (an armored car of the 1929 model), armed with the Puto SA 18 cannon and the Hotchkiss machine gun wz.25 , at the Warsaw Technical Museum. 2007 year On the left you can see the TKS wedge model on a self-propelled trailer driven by the wedge engine | |
| Samochód pancerny wz. 29th | |
| Combat weight, t | 4.8 |
| Crew | four |
| Story | |
| Developer | |
| Years of production | 1931 |
| Years of operation | 1931 - 1939 |
| The number of issued, pcs. | 13 |
| Key Operators |  |
| Dimensions | |
| Body length mm | 5490 |
| Width mm | 1850 |
| Height mm | 2475 |
| Base mm | 3500 |
| Track mm | 1510 |
| Clearance mm | 350 |
| Reservation | |
| Type of armor | steel rolled |
| Forehead, mm / city. | 6-9 |
| Board of the case, mm / city. | 6-9 |
| Feed housing, mm / city. | 6-9 |
| Bottom mm | four |
| Housing roof, mm | four |
| Tower forehead, mm / city. | ten |
| Board towers, mm / city. | ten |
| The feed of the tower, mm / city. | ten |
| Roof of the tower, mm | four |
| Armament | |
| Caliber and brand of guns | 37 mm SA 18 |
| Gun type | threaded |
| Gun ammunition | 96 |
| Sights | telescopic wz.29 |
| Machine guns | 3 7.92 mm Hotchkiss sample 1925 |
| Machine gun ammunition | 4032 |
| Mobility | |
| Engine type | in-line 4- cylinder liquid-cooled carburetor |
| Engine model | Ursus 2a |
| Engine power, l with. | 35 |
| Engine power, kW | 25.7 |
| Speed on the highway, km / h | 35 |
| Cruising on the highway , km | 380 |
| Wheel formula | 4 × 2 |
| Suspension type | on leaf springs |
| Gradeability, hail. | ten |
| Fording , m | 0.35 |
The cost of wz.29 Ursus is 36,000 zl (zlotys) (without weapons) (1930) (Exchange rate in the 1930s, until 1939: $ 1 (US dollar) = 5.31 zl, 1 GBP (British pound) = 24.84 zl, 1 FRF (French Franc) = 0.1407 zl, 1 RM (German Reichsmark) = 2.1254 zl) [1]
Below is a photo of Samochód pancerny wz. 29 (an armored car of the 1929 model), armed with a machine gun Hotchkiss wz.25
Notes
Literature
- M. Baryatinsky. Armored vehicles of European countries 1939-1945. - Moscow: Model Designer, 1999. - 32 p. - (Armored Collection No. 5 (26) / 1999). - 3000 copies.