Sd.Kfz. 247

The 'Sd.Kfz. 247' was an armored command car used by the Germany during World War II. Ten were built before the war of a six-wheeled model (Ausf. A) and 58 were built during the war of a four-wheeled model, the ''Ausf. B''. The proper name was schwerer geländegängiger gepanzerter Personenkraftwagen ("Heavy All-Terrain Armoured Motor Vehicle").

Description
The ''Sd.Kfz. 247'' had an open-topped, thinly armored body placed on a wheeled chassis. It was unarmed as its six-man crew was not intended to fight; rather it was intended for use by the commanders of motorcycle and motorized reconnaissance battalions, although neither version was fitted with any radios. Its armor was intended to stop 7.92 mm armor-piercing bullets at ranges over 30 m. Photographic evidence shows some Ausf. B vehicles were retro-fitted with a star-shaped radio antenna, mounted inside the crew compartment, and an additional armor plate bolted to the lower glacis of the hull.

Ausf. A
Krupp built ten ''Ausf. A'' models on the chassis of its L 2 H 143 6 × 4 truck (Krupp Protze) in 1937. Its 4-cylinder air-cooled gasoline flat engine 3.5 l Krupp M 305 65 hp, gave it a top speed of 70 km/h and a range of 350 km. Like all of the other vehicles that used this chassis the ''Ausf. A'' had very limited cross-country mobility, drivers being advised to stay on roads and trails. It weighed 5.2 t, was 5.2 m long, 1.96 m wide and 1.7 m tall.

Ausf. B
Daimler-Benz built 58 of these in 1941—42 on a 4 × 4 heavy car chassis (s.Pkw. Typ 1c). The front-mounted engine was an 8-cylinder, 3.823 l Horch 3.5 petrol engine, giving it a road speed of 80 km/h. It had a maximum range of 400 km.

Specifications
Specifications differ between sources, but Jentz, as the most recent source, has generally been followed.