overcoat branch insignia

[TUSINESKI]

I need your advice and help again, i cant identify the army branch of this major overcoat.

[sovvisor]

but I think it looks like railroad troops.
Best

[latinmajorac]

i woudl have to agree, it is railroad troops

[Nack]

Perhaps a translating difference, but I always heard these called "motor transport" insignia.

[DougD]

Motor Transport troops is correct.

[latinmajorac]

i always heard of these as being railway and that the motor shooting/transport troops had the same insignia as regular army (the laurel wreaths in a horseshoe)

well, thanks for teaching me something new guys!

[DougD]

Yes, the wheels show its motor transport; rail troops had the corssed engineering insignia, etc.

[Nack]

i always heard of these as being railway and that the motor shooting/transport troops had the same insignia as regular army (the laurel wreaths in a horseshoe)

well, thanks for teaching me something new guys!

I assume motor transport were the truck-driving folk, etc. I too have heard the star-in-laurel-wreath referred to as "motor-shootng troops" and the like. I guess "mechanized infantry" might be a better translation, but perhaps misleading, because I think all infantry (whether motorized or not) wore the same insigna.

[DougD]

Don't confuse 'Motor-Transport Troops' (the guys driving trucks) with 'Motor-Rifle Troops ( the guys we would call infantry). DD

[Nack]

To eliminate any confusion: motor transport (guys driving trucks) on the right, infantry (guys with guns) on the left.

(photo by nota bene)