Panzer AFP Markings

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Panzer AFP Markings

Anybody any Ideas about the AFP markings?

How about Armee Kraftfahrzeug Park which may be right however, I can't even begin to think why someone would put that on the tanks if they would eventually be returned to service. I'm guessing they are hulked AFV's that belong to the repair facility.
 
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I'm not sure about the reparati0n angle. Locomotives sent to Russia as part of German war reparations had a letter R road number prefix.

And that's not a pic of a Panzer III. Notice it has 8 road wheels instead of 6 like a Panzer III would have.

Pure speculation on my part about the reparation angle though.
 
The later Panzer III did indeed only have six road wheels mate but.....

Much of the early development work on the Panzer III was a quest for a suitable suspension. Several varieties of leaf-spring suspensions were tried on Ausf. A through Ausf. D, usually using eight relatively small-diameter road wheels before the torsion-bar suspension of the Ausf. E was standardized, using the six road wheel design that became standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_III
 

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