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« on: June 08, 2020, 07:55:45 am »
EWG you can disagree with the facts all you want but it doesn't change them. I didn't write the book, David Doyle is the author.
After about 232 SdKfz 251 Aus A vehicles had been produced, production shifted to the SdKfz 251 Aus B. The author reports that about 350 Aus B half-tracks were produced.
A company of the Infantry Regiment of the 1st Panzer Division stationed at Weimar received their first complement of Gepanzerter Mannschafts Transportwagen (MTW) in the spring of 1939 just in time to be used operationally during the Polish campaign.
You are correct that many infantry units used trucks to transport troops.
I was correcting the above statement that the Aus C was produced from 1942 on. As previously indicated production began January 1940. How many Aus C were used in France 1940 I currently don't know.
Converting an existing model of an Aus C to represent an Aus B would require modeling the front 2 intersecting pieces of armor. The other modeling would need to be done to top front of the engine hood for the engine cooling grille. Then there's the armored covers to protect the cooling air exhausts which the Aus A and B didn't have. The fenders over the Aus C tracks were designed with a slight up-sweep near the front . And of course the round bumper which the Aus C doesn't have.