1:35 German Hanomag Sd.Kfz 251/1 Kit
Item #35020

DESCRIPTION
In 1938, the German Army decided to develop an armoured personnel
carrier on the basis of the 3-ton half track (HL-KL-9p). Hanomag
Hannoversch Machinenbau (AG) in Hannover was ordered to develop
the running gear and Bussing-NAG in Berlin was to develop the
superstructure to be armoured. Design work was hastened on the
model of existing armoured cars and a prototype was completed at
the end of 1938. The Germans tested the prototype in the
Kumahsdorf Proving Ground and accepted it for mass production.
Thus was born the Armoured Personnel Carrier Hanomag Sdkfz 251/1
which, we may safely say, was a synonym for the German mechanized
corps that showed activity in all battlefields throughout the
war.