C2P was a Polish light artillery tractor. Designed in the 1930s, it was the basic tractor of Polish anti-aircraft artillery during the 1939 Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland. There are only two surviving vehicles, both in private hands in Poland.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- C2P
- Weapon.image
- C2P (4).jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300px
- Weapon.alt
- C2P artillery tractor
- Weapon.caption
- C2P artillery tractor
- Weapon.origin
- Second Polish Republic
- Weapon.type
- artillery tractor
- Weapon.is_vehicle
- yes
- Weapon.service
- 1937-1945
- Weapon.used_by
- Second Polish Republic, Nazi Germany
- Weapon.wars
- World War II
- Weapon.designer
- Janusz Łapuszewski
- Weapon.design_date
- 1933
- Weapon.manufacturer
- Państwowe Zakłady Inżynierii
- Weapon.unit_cost
- zl 33,000
- Weapon.production_date
- 1937-1939
- Weapon.number
- 196-310
- Weapon.variants
- TKS-D
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Article
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- Development
- Production
- Operational history
- Variants
- Users
- See also
- References
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C2P was a Polish light artillery tractor. Designed in the 1930s, it was the basic tractor of Polish anti-aircraft artillery during the 1939 Nazi and Soviet invasion of Poland. There are only two surviving vehicles, both in private hands in Poland.
== Development == The origins of the design can be traced to the Carden Loyd tankette of the 1920s. In 1929 Poland bought 10 or 11 Mark VI tankettes with a licence for their production, and used them for development of their own TK tankette series. In October 1931 Polish General Staff expressed interest in a small, highly mobile artillery tractor intended for 75 mm field guns in Polish service at the time. In 1932 Janusz Łapuszewski and A. Schmidt of the BBTBP institute ("Armoured Forces Technical Study Bureau") designed a small, fully tracked artillery tractor based on TK-3 tankette. It was designed to tow 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, but could also tow other light and medium artillery used by the Polish Army, such as the modernised 75 mm Schneider guns and 100 mm Skoda howitzers. For heavier guns it was to be eventually replaced in Polish service with the PZInż 343 wheeled tractor, but only a couple of these were completed before the war.