1920's Turkish armoured car?

[Mark251054]

Hi,

I have a small collection of Copplestone WWI British and Turks (or arguably 1920's) mainly for BoB games (involving my Archaeologists).

I've got a Rolls Royce armoured car for the Brits but any ideas what the Turkish equivilent could be? As usual the 'web' has come up empty handed/screened.

Cheers

[Plynkes]

Don't know of Turkish armoured cars. The Germans sent an expedition to the Caucasus in 1918 which may have included Daimler, Ehrhardt and captured Belgian Minerva and Russian Austin armoured cars. I think in the turmoil over oil fields at the end of the war this lot even ended up briefly fighting against the Turks at one point. With the end of the war the mission was knocked on the head.

I seriously wonder if they bothered taking their armoured cars home to post-war Germany with them. Maybe the Turks got hold of them?

I have no evidence for this, but it could be the basis for a pseudo-historical scenario of Turkish armoured cars.

[Doc Twilight]

I can confirm Plynkes suggestion that the Germans sent at least one Ehrhardt. I've seen references, as well (though never a photograph). My company makes an Ehrhardt in 28mm (www.blackarmyproductions.com), and I've already sold a few of these specifically to gamers looking to add armor to their Turks.


-Doc

[Mark251054]

Thanks for the answers fellas.

Cheers

[tom_aargau]

Like said before they might have used German or Russian or British or Belgian or Italian...

Guess anything is possible

Here a link to give you some ideas

http://www.wio.ru/tank/ww1ba.htm

[Stecal]

You may have to look at sources for the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-22.  I am sure that a fair amount of WW1 surplus ended up there.  the Turks seem to have been mainly supplied by the Russians, then later allies.

"As the supply situation worsened for the Greeks, things improved for the Turks. Initially, they enjoyed only Soviet support from abroad, in return for giving Batum back to the Soviet Union. On August 4, Turkey's representative in Moscow, Riza Nur, sent a telegram saying that soon 60 Krupp artillery pieces, 30,000 shells, 700,000 grenades, 10,000 mines, 60,000 Romanian swords, 1.5 million captured Ottoman rifles from World War I, 1 million Russian rifles, 1 million Mannlicher rifles, as well as some older British Martini-Henry rifles and 25,000 bayonets would be delivered to the Kemalist forces.[24] Soviets also provided monetary aid to the Turkish national movement, not to the extent that they promised but almost in sufficient amount to make up the large deficiencies in the promised supply of arms. The Turks in the second phase of the war also received significant military aid from Italy and France, who threw in their lot with the Kemalists against Greece which was seen as a British client[38]. The Italians were embittered from their loss of the Smyrna mandate to the Greeks and they used their base in Antalya to arm and train Turkish troops to assist the Kemalists against the Greeks."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)

[tsar1701]

Like said before they might have used German or Russian or British or Belgian or Italian...

Guess anything is possible

Here a link to give you some ideas

http://www.wio.ru/tank/ww1ba.htm

great site, thanks for having shared !