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Schneider CD3 tractor. http://www.landships.info/landships/softskin_articles/Schneider_CD.html

Charlie if it Helps I believe the Tank track visible to the left is from a Panzer II the format of the pic seems typical for WW2 so I would expect this is France 1940...

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Ironsides wrote:

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Charlie if it Helps I believe the Tank track visible to the left is from a Panzer II the format of the pic seems typical for WW2 so I would expect this is France 1940...

 

Cheers

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Ironsides is quite right: see this.

http://www.peachmountain.com/5star/Museum_Tanks_Musee_des_Blindes_Saumur_German_WWII.asp

That mudguard stowage box with the end of a tubular storage canister next to it is particularly obvious.

I wondered if we could pin it down further by date, given that (ignoring known/published info re users of the Schneider) this might in principle be France 1940 or Poland 1939 or even later, with the tractor and trailer in German service, maybe.

Unfortunately, a look at the relevant Panzer Tracts does not tell us much more (not their fault). I can't quite make out all the clutter o nthe Panzer, but it is plainly not an Ausf. D/E from the tracks, and it seems to have the silencer configuration of the earlier marks (A-C), with the inlet on the right and outlet on the left, rather than the last (F, produced 1941 on) which is the other way round. But as the F was produced 1942 on, this is not much help. It has the reinforcing rod between the idlers, but as this reinforcing rod was built in on some As, some Bs and new Cs (all completed prewar) and backfitted on earlier ones, it is  no use. There is, I think, a smoke candle unit on top of the silencer, but as this was extesively, if very patchily, refitted by users to older vehicles, it doesn't take us any further - the book has photos of IIs with the unit in Poland and without in France 1940 ... anyway, its presence tends to be commoner with time, I should think, which marginally suggests France, but the decision will have to be on who was the likely owner of the Schneider in the first place!