UK report into German WWII welding processes

[Adrian Harris]

This link was recently posted on the RCTankWarfare forum:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/68803068/Weld ... ts-UK-1948

The report details German welding techniques and processes and includes quite a few pictures of tanks in various stages of manufacture.

Interesting to read between the lines in the opening section that the author seems quite envious that the Germans let engineers run their technical committees, but also that he felt they sometimes came to the wrong decisions

With thanks to the original poster.

Adrian.

[Armortek]

Wow

Seriously interesting stuff, and some amazing photos and detailed information. The assembly was rough by modern standards, but the welding doesn't bear thinking about. Just for info, when I was taught how to weld at the Welding Institute in Cambridge, we used one of the austenitic rods listed as approved for hull manufacture (Bohler Fox), I didn't know they had been around for that long.

Mark

[simon_manning]

well done adrian,looks interesting.regards simon manning.

[Kent Wiik]

Hi Adrian,

This report was posted on Missing Lynx in September last year but the link to the document don’t work any more so thanks for this new one.

The report was at that time a pdf file so you are able to zoom in the drawings to spot the details.
It has helped me understanding how the floor plates were attached to the low side plates.

Of special interest is the rather large tolerance the plates were accepted to have. So large was the difference between hulls that the pannier floor and hull top plates had to be cut separately for each hull.
Something to think about when we sometimes have difficulty assembling our hulls...

Kind regards
Kent

[Adrian Harris]

Hi Kent

I did manage to download the PDF from this site. If anyone wants a copy I'll see if I can find somewhere to upload it. It's 63MB in size, and doesn't get any smaller when zipped

Adrian.