Who makes an armoured truck like this?

The Swedish army had, what they called, an armoured car. In reality it was more an truck with some armour. They used both Volvo and Chevrolet trucks as a base. They put on some armour and machine guns and they called it pbil m/31. This made is slow, its top speed was 60 km/h and it could only drive on roads.

They were built from 1931 to 1940. Because of this and that they were built on different trucks they were not all identical. The armament was two m/14-29 machine guns or one 37mm canon and a machine gun. The trucks were painted steel-grey. They were never many of them, from 1931 to 1937 12 were delivered and a further 7 until the start of ww2. The machine guns were later up-graded to the m/36.

The armoured trucks were given to the cavalry. There were three trucks in each platoon. In each platoon one had a canon and the others machine guns.

pbil m/31 with machine guns



pbil m/31, some with machine guns, some with 37mm guns

Later they were re-armed and got a nice paint job. But that is a different story.

Little known fact about the early Swedish tanks

Little known fact:
The first Swedish tank was the Strv m/21 (Strv stands for Stridsvagn, which literally means war wagon). Sweden bought 10 of them from Germany after WW1. They got smuggled into Sweden as tractor parts. They were used by Svea Livgarde from August 1922, but transferred to Göta Livgarde in 1927. There were 10 of them. At first they were painted grey, but in 1928 they were repainted with a camo pattern.
In the early 30s five of them got a stronger engine. Now their top speed was 18km/h, instead of 16km/h. The new model was called m/21-29. They were used until the start of ww2.
Both models were equipped with a ksp m/14 medium machine gun.
It was a based on the German LKII tank prototype.

Now you have the chance to own more m/21-29 tanks than the Swedes really did! Both Copplestone and Tobsen77 make them.

Tobsen77: http://tobsen77.de/products/stridsvagn.php
Copplestone: http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=VEH

A m/21 tank in a Swedish museum.

The Swedish panzer troops are advancing! It looks like it is tank number 10.