Development of the Finnish Engineers in 1920s and 1930s

 

 

Examples of equipment bought for the engineers during the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s:

1918

  • Auxiliary railway loading dock, German.
    • Used in railway yards and lines for unloading and loading supplies onto trains. The first engineering piece of equipment bought.

  • Explosives
    • Trotyl, pyroxyline, pericylic acid and dynamite.
  • Sytyttimiä
    • Percussion fuses, time fuses, quick fuses and explosive fuses.

1919

  • Motor pontoon, Russian.
    • The motor pontoons were the equipment of the Russian Imperial Army, but built in Finland. Not all of the pontoons were delivered to the customer and 28 of the 61 pontoons ordered were eventually left in independent Finland. They were taken into service in 1919.

1924

  • Light water-crossing equipment, the Danish cavalry bridge equipment Rytterbro m/Christensen.
    • The equipment, bought from Denmark, arrived at the Engineer Battalion in 1924, but was quickly found to be unsuitable for crossing flowing water.

1925

  • Pontoon m/25, German
  • Fordson tractor
  • Concrete mixer
  • Atlas-Diesel air compressor
  • Atlas jackhammer, pneumatic
  • Plough, to be pushed by a horse
  • Stone crusher/gravel mill

1926

  • Road graver
  • Road roller

1927

  • More pontoons m/25, built by Finnish Crichton-Vulcan
  • Water pump, Evinrude

1930

  • Johnson, Penta, Coventry Victor ja Evinrude offboard engines

1932

  • Transport trailer for pontoon m/25
    • Vaunu soveltui sekä auto- että hevosvetoiseksi.
    • Design and manufacture by Dba J. Hallenberg

1934

  • Field ploughing equipment
  • Horse-track plough
  • Spreading plough

1935

  • Pontoon equipment m/35, French

1936

  • Outboard engine Kovacs m/34, Hungarian

1938

  • Raft equipment m/38

1939

  • Incendiary bottle
    • Incendiary bottle and its lighter matches were developed by Captain E. Kuittinen in the Engineer Battalion in 1937-1939. The idea came from the Spanish Civil War.
  • Anti-tank mine m/36
    • The mine was developed as early as 1936, but the weapon, which was kept secret, was not made familiar to the staff of the engineer branch until late 1939.