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Dragon 1/72 Heavy Uniform Personnel Vehicle Typ 40 # 7379
SKU
DRG7379
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Type:
Plastic Model Kit
EAN
089195873798
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£29.99
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The Heavy Uniform Personnel Vehicle Typ 40 (German: Schwerer Einheits-Pkw Typ 40) was part of Germany’s Einheitsfahrzeug (“standardised vehicle”) programme, introduced to simplify logistics by standardising military vehicles across manufacturers.
Developed at the end of the 1930s, the Typ 40 was intended as a robust, all-wheel-drive personnel and command vehicle for the Wehrmacht.
The Typ 40 followed earlier heavy Einheits-Pkw designs but incorporated improvements based on wartime experience.
It featured permanent four-wheel drive, independent suspension, and a relatively powerful engine for its class, giving it good cross-country performance compared with civilian-derived staff cars.
The vehicle was designed to carry officers, staff personnel, and small teams, as well as serve liaison, reconnaissance, and light transport roles.
Despite its advanced design, the Heavy Uniform Personnel Vehicle Typ 40 proved complex and expensive to manufacture, requiring skilled labour and significant resources—both increasingly scarce as the war progressed.
In rough terrain and harsh climates, maintenance demands were high, and the sophisticated suspension was vulnerable to wear and damage.
As a result, production numbers remained limited.
In service, Typ 40 vehicles were used by army, Luftwaffe, and Waffen-SS units, commonly seen as staff cars, radio vehicles, or troop carriers in rear and frontline areas alike.
However, their complexity ultimately ran counter to wartime realities, and Germany increasingly turned to simpler, more rugged designs such as the Volkswagen Kübelwagen and various captured or civilian-based vehicles.
The Heavy Uniform Personnel Vehicle Typ 40 stands as an example of early-war German engineering philosophy—technically ambitious and well-designed, but ill-suited to the long, resource-intensive conflict that followed.
| SKU | DRG7379 |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Dragon |
| Scale | 1/72 |
| EAN | 089195873798 |
| Short Description | Dragon 1/72 Heavy Uniform Personnel Vehicle Typ 40 # 7379 |
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