Tiznaos
Spanish Improvised Armoured Vehicles
Albacete
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The town soviet of Albacete commissioned the manufacture of only two ‘tiznao’s’ during the Spanish Civil War and this is one of them. Apparently using a Ford Commercial truck chassis of the same type as the Bilbao this large machine gun turreted monster could also carry a section of fully armed troops.
Confederal No.6
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Confederal No.6 was soon sent to the Aragon front, where it joined the efforts in the Guadarama in attempting to wrest control of the Somosierra back from the Nationalists, efforts which ultimately failed.
Confederal No.9
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Produced by the Sociedad Comercial de Hierros on Mendez Álvaro, Madrid, a number of homebrew armoured vehicles served with the Confederal militias. The ones with the angled rear served with the Perea Column in the defence of Navafría, from the Nationalists.
Constructora Field Type 01
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The Constructora Field factories in Barcelona constructed a number of armoured vehicles in the Civil War. Perhaps most iconic of these were those made from Boiler Plate steel with the iconic lettering welded on. Only the prototype (Type 01) was without a turret.
Constructora Field Type 02
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Although it is unclear which trucks were used to serve as the base for these improvised armoured vehicles it is generally agreed that only four large boiler plates were used and unlike the majority of tiznaos, Constructora Field employed welded armour instead of rivets.
Constructora Field Type 03
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Although using different numbers of boiler plates led to moderate differences in the rear hull shapes the level of protection given was pretty uniform at up to 8mm. Vickers and Hotchkiss machine guns were the most common armaments mounted on them through their lives.
Constructora Field Type 04
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There is some debate as to whether or not these were even manufactured by Constructora Field given its concave armour, although the plate on the vehicles nose is similar enough to the shape of the Constructora brand that it is assumed that it is one of their designs
Don Benito
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Very little is known of the Don Benito improvised armoured vehicle although it is assumed to have actually originated in Don Benito and would therefore likely have experienced its baptism of fire in resisting Yague’s La marcha on the road to Merida.
Ebro Series I
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The exaggerated angles and height of the chassis, the extended beak in front of the engine and number of other idiosyncracies of its construction betray the inexperience of the manufacturers of the Maquinista y Fundiciones del Ebro S.A.
Ebro Series II
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As yet, nobody has been able to determine the order in which the Ebro series of vehicles was constructed by Maquinista y Fundiciones del Ebro S.A. b ut because of the more rational nature of this vehicle it is possible that this was a later version of the manufacturing
Echevarria Type I
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The Echevarria tiznaos were designed and built in the Echevarria Workshops in Begoña and because of the standardised manufacturing they appeared in some appreciable numbers in a limited number of versions. Serving with the Euzkadi in the north, almost all of them were lost.
Echevarria Type II
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The Echevarria’s were deployed with the Euzkadi Armoured Car Battalion, serving in the Vitoria offensive where they were held at the gates of Ochanidano by a last ditch Nationalist defence of the town, another mission saw two being ambushed and abandoned in Villareal.
Echevarria Type III
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Along with the Republican deployment of Echevarrias as ambulances in the War in the North, the Nationalists also made extensive use of their captured vehicles in their own armoured columns with their final front line actions taking place in the Vizcaya (Biscay) campaign.
Fantasma No.1
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The artisanal armoured truck Fantasma No.1 was constructed in the workshops around Oviedo in 1936. During the siege of this Nationalist hold there is conjecture that it was the vehicle taken out by Herminio Arguelles brigade in the close quarter fighting subsequently being a well photographed trophy
Camion Blindado Ferrol
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Between March and April 1936, in the coastal and strategically important city of Ferrol (in the north of Galicia), the Regimento de Artillería de Costas No.2 (Coastal Artillery Regiment) transformed at least four of the regiments’ Hispano-Suiza 30/40 transports into armoured trucks.
Hispano-Suiza 3T6
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Hispano-Suiza went through four iterations of ‘tiznao’s’ before normalizing their manufacturing with the Type 5 and 6, where production achieved significant numbers. Parts were interchangeable with the older turrets still being used on the newer Type 6 chassis, although still being equipped with only 1 HMG.
Hispanbo-Suiza MC-36
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Losing out in the tender to the Bilbao 1932 armoured car, the MC-36 still found a limited production run of up to 15 vehicles. Based on the T-69 truck chassis the MC-36 could also carry up to ten fully armed troops as well as sporting a Hotchkiss armed turret.
Hispano-Suiza MC-36
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Over the civili War the Nationalists captured a number of MC-36’s and ended up installing a salvaged T-26 turret in order to serve as a command vehicle, appearing in the victory parade in Seville. The Nationalist haul of MC-36’s were likely captured between Seville and Madrid in 1936
Linares
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With ‘Linares’ daubed over the front of this vehicle it was clearly one of those constructed in the Linares workshops in the city of Jaén before heading off to contribute to the fighting around Cordoba
MMC Type 1
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The MMC Tipo 1 (Material Movil y Construcciones S.A. Type 1) was the first armoured vehicle built by the namesake company from Zaragoza. Constructed alongside the Ebro series of artisanal trucks because of the similarities of construction, these were heavy vehicles and used solely by the Nationalists.
MMC Type 2
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The MMC Tipo 2 (Material Movil y Construcciones S.A. Type 2) differed from the Type 1 in only superficial details. The headlight is now seated between the driver and passenger viewports, the rear box step has been removed and the barrel embrasures have given way to simple embrasures only.
MTM-01
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Constructed in the Maquinaria Terrestre y Maritima workshops of Barcelona, there were at least four of these tiznaos constructed the majority of which were destined for the ‘Durruti Column’ in it’s advance towards the Aragonese front and Zara.goza
Nationalist Mortar Carrier
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In late 1936 the Nationalists knocked together a number of Tiznao’s to help defend the city of Segovia which was under Republican assault. With the help of armoured vehicles such as this one they were able to cling hold of the territory, holding it for the uprising!
Naval-Somua with 3 roof hatches
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The shipyard Construcciones Navales de Sestao (near Bilbao) acquired a licence to build Somua-Packard buses in 1931. When the Civil War broke out in 1936 the chassis of Somua buses was armoured to make an improvised armoured vehicle. More than 30 of these vehicles were built for the Republican forces.
Naval-Somua with central turret
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The shipyard Construcciones Navales de Sestao (near Bilbao) acquired a licence to build Somua-Packard buses in 1931. When the Civil War broke out in 1936 the chassis of Somua buses was armoured to make an improvised armoured vehicle. More than 30 of these vehicles were built for the Republican forces.
Naval-Somua with rear turret
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The shipyard Construcciones Navales de Sestao (near Bilbao) acquired a licence to build Somua-Packard buses in 1931. When the Civil War broke out in 1936 the chassis of Somua buses was armoured to make an improvised armoured vehicle. More than 30 of these vehicles were built for the Republican forces.
Pamplona No.3
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The Navarrese Carlist Requete faction stood with the Nationalists forces in the Basque provinces of northern Spain. Along with other factions who had access to manufacturing facilities the Navarre carlists created and used a number of improvised armoured vehicles based on civilian trucks.
Pamplona No.8
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The Navarrese Carlist Requete faction stood with the Nationalists forces in the Basque provinces of northern Spain. Along with other factions who had access to manufacturing facilities the Navarre carlists created and used a number of improvised armoured vehicles based on civilian trucks.
Rio Tinto No.1
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With the failure of the uprising in Huelva, the Rio Tinto mining communities constructed a number of vehicles which were dispatched to Sevilla to help resisting the rebels. A second column dispatched from Huelva was ambushed by Civil Guards on their way there.
Rio Tinto No.2
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With the failure of the uprising in Huelva, the Rio Tinto mining communities constructed a number of vehicles which were dispatched to Sevilla to help resisting the rebels. A second column dispatched from Huelva was ambushed by Civil Guards on their way there.
Torras No.2 'King Kong'
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King Kong was one of a series of 37 tiznaos produced at the Torras Herreria Y Construcciones works of which there were six variants, some with turrets, some without. Torras King Kong still in use in October 1936 when it supported the Internationals against a Nationalist offensive.
Tanque Aragon a.k.a Mercier
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In October 1936, the Nationalists received 14 Caterpillar Twenty-Two tractors from the USA. Mounted on the chassis of a caterpillar tractor, one was converted in the Mercier workshops, armed with two 7mm HMGs. Of little or almost no combat value, no more units were manufactured.
