About the book: 2000 / The First World War dealt a heavy blow to German industry. But gradually German mechanical engineering began to gain momentum. In 1924, 65 German automobile factories were already producing passenger cars. This added up to over 90 different production models. The global crisis and other economic reasons led to a reduction in the number of enterprises to 23 in 1928 (not all of them closed; at the turn of 1920-30, a wave of mergers swept across Germany - it was easier to overcome economic difficulties together). Therefore, when Germany began to intensively equip its units with automobile transport, there were no problems in choosing a manufacturing plant, but the question of unifying army vehicles urgently arose. After the Treaty of Versailles, the German military industry was inactive, therefore, when it was necessary to equip the Reichswehr with army automobile transport, it was necessary to resort to a temporary measure - adaptation of passenger production vehicles to military needs. Passenger models were equipped with open bodies without doors, comfortable soft seats were replaced with simplified bucket seats (as they now say “with lateral support”), the result was the so-called kübelwagen (more precisely, kubelsitzewagen - “tank seats”). The army equipment included, along with tires with developed lugs, brackets for attaching weapons, entrenching tools and additional canisters. Note: A complete set of illustrations, arranged as in a printed publication, captions to illustrations in text.