Surviving_Polish_armoured_vehicles(1).pdf

Surviving Polish Tanks and Armoured Vehicles

Last update : 23 September 2012

Listed here are the Polish Tank and Armoured Vehicles that still exist today.

Ryszard Gałgan, May 2009 - http://forum.nikon.org.pl/showthread.php?t=100539

TK-3 tankette – Adam Rudnicki Collection (Poland) – running condition

It was found in France by the Kęszycki brothers (Rafał Białęcki). The upper hull was entirely rebuilt by Adam Rudnicki

Rafał Białęcki, September 2008

TKF tankette – Kalemegdan Military Museum, Belgrade (Serbia)

This vehicle probably belonged to 10 BKPanc-Mot which received the order to cross the Polish-Hungary border on

17 September 1939, and was captured by Hungary and given to the Ustaše. It was finally captured by Tito’s partisans (Rafał Białęcki)

http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/TKS - Source: http://www.wp.mil.pl/ - Polish Ministry of National Defence copyright, 2005

TKS tankette – Polish Army Museum, Warsaw (Poland) – running condition

This tankette is a gift of the Pansaarmuseet Axvall (Rafał Białęcki). Here you can see the tankette before and after its restoration in

2003 : http://www.pansarmuseet.se/nyheter.htm

Adam Chodorowski, September 2009 - http://czolg.blox.pl/2009/09/Foto-Tank-Tankietka-TKS.html

TKS tankette – Jacek Kopczyński Collection, Łódz (Poland) – running condition

This TKS was used by the WH in Norway. After 1945, it served as a tractor in a farm,

and in 200? it was recovered from Vasdo (North Norway) and carried back to Poland.

Its first public presentation was during “Bzura 2005”, the reconstitution of the Bzura Battle in 1939 (Rafał Białęcki)

Jacek Szafranski, January 2012 - http://bigmodel120.blogspot.com/2012/01/moto-weteran-bazar-21-i-2012.html

TKS (Nkm wz.38 FK) tankette – Private collection (Poland) – running condition

The Nkm wz.38 FK (Polish military acronym meaning Heaviest Machine Gun Mark 1938 ) was a 20mm heavy machine gun produced

in inter-war Poland. About 100 TK-3 and TKS tankettes were re-armed with the NKm wz. 38 FK gun before the start of WWII

(wikipedia). About 60% of the parts on this vehicle are original (engine, gearbox, fuel tank, about 30% of the armor plates, wheels and

tracks). The bridge, cooler, starter, alternator and Nkm wz. 38 FK main gun are not original. The reconstruction took 3 years

Vitaly Lomov, March 2011 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahumex/5588797446/in/set-72157626301262135

TKS tankette – Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia)

This TKS was captured by the Red Army in 1939. It carries the number 1720 and it was produced on 20 July 1936.

It was the 194 th produced TKS (Rafał Białęcki)

Maciej Boruń, September 2012 - http://muzeumbronipancernej.pl/

TKS tankette hull – Muzeum Broni Pancernej, Poznan (Poland)

This vehicle was previously located at the Varanger Peninsula (Norway). It is a gift from Norwegian Government and Forsvarsmuseet

http://picasaweb.google.com/116878678160164820185/20100529OldtimerMilitarisChrcynno#5477019004429200738

First C2P – Adam Rudnicki Collection (Poland)

First, this C2P belonged to Guy Arend who found it in Spain -it worked there few decades in a vineyard-. Mr Arend bought it for his

Museum in Arlon (Belgium). After the Museum bankruptcy, the armoured tractor was brought to the Victory Museum in Auburn, USA,

and was very recently sold to a private collector in Poland (Rafał Białęcki)

http://odkrywca.pl/c2p-ostateczny-montaz,675882.html#675882

Second C2P – Adam Rudnicki Collection (Poland) – running condition

This C2p was found in 2004 during works on a military area in South Germany. It was restored to running condition (Rafał Białęcki)

Some photos of the wreck before restoration : http://forum.ioh.pl/viewtopic.php?t=6186

Jędrzej Korbal, November 2009

C2P hull and some parts – Private collection, Wielkopolska region (Poland)

This hull was found 50kms from Warsaw (Rafał Białęcki). The hull is not complete and it is in rather poor condition : strong rust, lack of

crucial parts (Jędrzej Korbal)