Post interesting post war results, dealing with soldier-turned civilians from defeated states, post war drawdowns and disarmaments, surrendered military hardware, kinda just stuff that resulted from a war on a military level.
Is the US the most "sell to the civvies" kinda nation from surplus, or has the USSR/Russia won that one?
German High Seas Fleet, 1918 armistice, looks to be the biggest naval surrender ever but I thought Italy actually had a relative lot for their size. Japan can't have lost their whole navy before the end too right?
These are cool as fuck conversions too.
Arado Ar 196:surrendered to Sweden and sold for civilian use then bought by the RAFhttps://www.jaermuseet.no/flyhistorisk/en/arado-ar-196a-2/
>>65445744i wonder how efficient they were vs purpose built, pretty neat though.
>>65445865If it were me I'd look at that power plant even though it's not PTO driving. Looks like another engine under the cab body for that.It's not wide, that's one thing so height has limits.LOVE the strainer and I'm auction hunting now lol. You best not have derailed money from my racing fetish.
>>65445865fuck youhttps://www.warsendshop.com/products/german-helmet-strainerlook at this fucking shop, I'm in a rabbit hole now
>>65446111sorry.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFS_aAVfn_Y
>>65446146Anon, a particular SS moment in history trying to form up Poles lol, memorialized in a cigarette case which is weird on it's own.https://www.warsendshop.com/products/zakopane-1944-trench-art-cigarette-case?_pos=2&_sid=259662c52&_ss=r
>>65446111>A very interesting piece of history. I have a few of these on my shelf and I have a few that I use fairly regularly just to inject a little whimsy into my day.Lol dude holy shit. I still use Pyrex despite the lead or cadmium or whatever in the prints but man. I'd be a little skeptical these things were made to high standards. Or without lead paint.
>>65446681>lead paintSee:>whimsyThis one is a mix of actual used german equiipment at first then just producing it themselves: German Sd.Kfz. 251/OT-810https://panzerplace.eu/telling-apart-the-810s-from-the-251s/
>>65446146Don't fuck with the German women's league.
>>65445744Imagine trying to get it in final drive..
Very good site for this kinda thinghttps://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/
>>65448037I couldn't even guess the number of levers and pedals. I imagine the PTO engine needs to be run up gears as well.>>65448251oh nice, many thanks +2 social credit
>>65445647Don't have any pics unfortunately but I went to Normadie around 2013 and passed numerous rural farmhouses that had leftover WWII military junk into incorporated into various farm projects they'd rigged together. Saw a chicken coop that was made out of the covered bed taken off an Opel Blitz, fences patched with sections of metal taken off military vehicles, a swinging gate made out of what I'm pretty sure was a Higgins boat ramp, random toolsheds from partial or intact prefabricated military metal buildings, military crates, ammo boxes holding spare parts, jerrycans for fuel, etc. It was obvious that the local people had salvaged, bartered for or stolen a bunch of shit after combat stopped. It wasn't overwhelmingly common but the presence stood out, the closer you got to Paris the less there was.
>>65448839That reminds me I have a ww1 ammo can shinebox, not this one but similar. > I was told these shoe shine kits were constructed after WWI using US Vickers ammo boxes and given to US Doughboys when they were mustered out of the service. I have heard that the War Department made them so out of work ex-Doughboys cold shine shoes for a few pennies on the streets of US cities. Then I heard they were commercially made and sold.There are a few variations of these so all those guesses could be true.
>>65448964I doubt it was a jobs program kek. Post war boom was so hard people would talk all kinds of shit if you couldn't find a job. Stories of layoffs almost weren't believed, and in tv shows that was the joke "laid off" was "got fired".My guess is that a few were made in the service and the practice came home.
>>65449068could be, but they seem so prevalent i think some corporation thought they could make some money selling surplus boxes with a little cast iron on top. the idea of handing someone who'd just been fighting in trenches a shoeshine box is kind of laughable.
>>65447602Yeah I just don't want to go full retarded. I've used Pyrex and stuff for long enough that I really don't worry about it. Never got my blood lead tested before shooting, though, so hard to say if it actually gets into my food. Tupperware is also something I use pretty much every day and people freak about that IIRC because old plastic. Had a pic of this in red rust preventative which might've been red lead but it gets the point across.
>>65448964and now veterans are paid more if they worsen their PTSD
