LANDSVERK M38 ARMOURED CAR
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M38 Armoured Car after May 1940


In spite of the dismantling of the armoured cars after the capitulation some of them were reused by the Germans for instance the M36 by the militarised police. The M36 and M38 were registered as Panzerspähwagen L202 and the M39 as Pantserspähwagen DAF 201.

At least four M38 armoured cars of the 2nd squadron and four M39 armoured cars of the Depot squadron were in use with the German 227th Infantry Division. This division moved via Hengelo, Zutphen and Scherpenzeel to the surroundings of Amersfoort and along the Rotterdam-Delft road and Gand (Belgium) to Le Havre on the French coast. The armoured cars were deployed in the Aufklärungs Abteilung. In France the division was incorporated in the coastal defence untill 1941.

1940-1941: armoured cars M36, M38 en M39 in German use in France.

Two Dutch M38 and two M39 armoured cars in German use with German markings. Here on the Dutch coast, the Schevingen boulevard, probably in the second half of May 1940. In use by the German 227th Infantry Division.

M38 armoured car in German use.

A M38 armoured car in German use with German crew and German markings.



2 m36,s with on the back a m38 . Probably a collecting place in  Breda , Watch the dutch markings.


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