4x4s.org NAMED MODEL · 1924–30
NAMED MODELMilitary · PolandFrance

B2 half-tracks for Poland and the wz. 28 (1924–30)

The Polish Army bought about 135 Citroën-Kégresse half-track chassis on the 10 HP B2 in 1924 and armoured 90 of them in Poland as the Samochód pancerny wz. 28; the rest became all-terrain lorries.

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BASE VEHICLEKégresse K1 and P4 T (10 HP B2, 1921–26)BUILT BYCitroënIN SERVICE1924–30OPERATED INPolandPRODUCTIONAbout 135 chassis, 90 armouredLAYOUT2 wheels · 88.6″

The record

Two prototypes were delivered in 1925 and the first series in 1927, with a 37 mm Puteaux SA 18 gun or a Hotchkiss machine gun; final assembly was at the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe in Warsaw with Baildon armour, and all 90 were complete by 1930. Slow and unreliable, they were rebuilt from 1933 as the wheeled wz. 34 with a Polski Fiat engine; three or four wz. 28s remained in 1939.

Specification

MANUFACTURERCitroën ↗
Paris (chassis); armoured at the Centralne Warsztaty Samochodowe, Warsaw
MANUFACTURED1924–30
ENGINECitroën 10 HP four, 1,452 cc, 20 hpCitroën 10 HP four (B2/B12)
PRODUCTION RUNAbout 135 chassis, 90 armoured
COUNTRY OF ORIGINFrance
OPERATED INPoland
STATUSout of service
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEKégresse 10 HP
FAMILYKégresse 10 HP
WHEELS2
NOMINAL WHEELBASE88.6″
CATEGORYMilitary · Poland

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Sources

  1. 1Samochód pancerny wz. 28 ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE
  2. 2Citroën Type B2 ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE
  3. 3Les autochenilles Kégresse (Pascal Honegger, 2015) ↗Krybebåndssocietetet (kegresse.dk) · accessed 2026-09-24SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-24 · status: researched