I was perusing the web, trying to find some shots of a Renault AHN, and yep, found a few shots. But I ran across this vehicle on a Russian site (sorry I don't remember which) and since it was all in Russian, and even my translator page couldn't translate it into something I could understand ( first time that's happened by the way) I'm just wondering if anyone could ID this rather large and interesting looking contraption.

an unusual one but unfortunately I have no idea what it is and look forward to being told by others what it is

According to my meagre documentation,it could be a German-built Bussing-Nag or Vomag "Niederflurwagen" Reichspost bus. In 1941, some were turned into AA gun carriers with a Flak 88mm gun .

Here's a picture of the MARS Bussing-Nag 1:72 kit :


Frenchy

Thanks Frenchy.

Dave,

I found the page you were looking for it is found here

From the caption on the picture itself it says that it is a Magirus of 1936.

I know very little Russian, but there seems to be a connection between Bussing and Magirus, to which the Magirus is a further development in some fashion. I'll see if I can get the page translated...

Here's a Systran translation of the accompanying text (a bit weird, but I think you get the idea ) :

"On the whole, there are no happinesses, yes misfortune helped, to the end of the war German fire service drove in the most contemporary machines. Such as Bussing with the engine in 145 hp, which was equipped moreover directly at the plant. But besides the firemen in the country, where only domestic animals did not bear it formed, was militarized it was and mail. This service had available "Alpine buses", capable it drove noticeably more rapid than 100 km/h. I heard the story of the freed Vienna veteran about the trip with its platoon on this bus, equipped with knife- snow-plough. After raising it as armor panel, our soldiers literally laughed from the mountain road the desperately firing back himself company of motorcyclist- sub-machine gunners - stopped their 250- strong Magirus with two leading rear axles possible it was only by Faust-patron as tank."

So it could be a 1936 Reichspost Magirus bus.... If you do an image search using Google and the words "magirus 1936" you get the one in Dave's post among the results...

Frenchy ( happy to have used conditional in his previous post )

Frenchy,

You had a conditional at least. All I saw was a bus... an old one at that...

Thanks guys.... and yep that's the page......

You planning on having a go at building this beast grumpy??
It does look a bit like that FLAK vehicle doesnt it?, would be one hell of a reverse conversion.

Since I haven't scratchbuilt a vehicle since the days of hair and teeth, perhaps a much lesser endevor would be appropreate. :-) :-) :-) :-) beside, the last one I did, two weeks after finishing it, Scale Link released a model of it...... :-) :-) :-) :-) Oh... to give a time frame... it was the RR armoured car.