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1958 Borgward in "Panzer Grey"

Wolf.Dose

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The trailer hitch of the Borgward B2000 is the Rockinger TK226A, good for 75 kg pintle load and a 2000 kg trailer. The bolt is 40 mm diameter, exact new 38.5 mm, the bore of the eye is 40 mm. The A stands for Handhebel abwaerts, which means handle downward.
This trailer hitch is normally the fire department trailer hitch, so your B2000 seems to have served as a fire truck. The German Army used the 1 t Rockinger siutable for the SAE J847 eye.
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rhinob

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The trailer hitch of the Borgward B2000 is the Rockinger TK226A, good for 75 kg pintle load and a 2000 kg trailer. The bolt is 40 mm diameter, exact new 38.5 mm, the bore of the eye is 40 mm. The A stands for Handhebel abwaerts, which means handle downward.
This trailer hitch is normally the fire department trailer hitch, so your B2000 seems to have served as a fire truck. The German Army used the 1 t Rockinger siutable for the SAE J847 eye.
Wolf
That's quite possible, Wolf. When we ground down the paint to expose the various layers, we found first a tan primer, then a sort of grayish green (Bundesweher) then Red which seems to match RAL 3000. That would have made it a fire service vehicle, or Catastrophen or Zivilian Schutz? Anyway, it was silver when received as it was a balloon recovery vehicle from Bonn.

I'm very happy to have it on the Borgward as this will also pull my modified army trailer mentioned in a different thread.
 
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