PIU 700 x 700

This is a record of an extremely rare find: a well-preserved Version One PIU 700x700mm map table. It is looking for a new owner to take care of it. If I weren’t already tied up with the painful restoration of my own Version One table, I would definitely buy this beauty. Unlike mine, which is…
Read more

The table was packed and ready to move. The Version One is 16kg and the Version Two is 14kg in weight. I am always worrying that the press plate of the shoulder strap is secured by two (some three) M3 screws, it may be pulled out when force is applied. But from Otto’s feedback the…
Read more

The PIU 700×700 map table was designed for manpack as it has a pair of canvas shoulder straps secured by press plates. With heavy duty hooks clipped to the ‘D’ rings anchored onto the cross beams under the table . However the 14 to 16kg weight seems a difficult task to handle and the strength…
Read more

After installing the metal parts, the version two table left my place last December to its new home. The proud owner Otto Landrik did a full restoration on the table top and other wooden parts. And keep the metal parts in patina look but cleaned the aluminum straps round the table top. The RDP Protractor…
Read more

The most wanted original map table cover arose on FB. Not on Map Reading related forum but on ‘World War Wheels Wehrmacht’. Owner asked to identify this cover. It is not for vehicles but a rare PIU 700×700 Version Two Transit Cover. The markings roughly shown 42 and a waffenamt chop with a eagle but…
Read more

The first Version Two Cover reached its new home. It is to match with one of the best preserved Version Two PIU 700x700mm Map Table owned by David Mallen. https://www.whrestorer.com/david-mallen-collection/ Without his detail information the curve protractor pouch won’t be successful. This cover was taken measure from the Version Two table wrongly sent to me.…
Read more

I was fortunate enough to have a chance to inspect the Version Two table. It is a simplified version during the war time on labor and to save up the valuable brass for better use. However the transit cover became more complicated than the early version. The twist locks and snap buttons of version one…
Read more

Lucky to have a chance to acquired two versions of PIU 700 x 700 map tables under one roof. This Version Two table had lost its strap holder plates, D rings, Leg locks and handle. Been affected by woodworms (threaded), with small holes and wood dust all round. It will have a full restore by…
Read more

David Mallen is lucky enough to obtained TWO map tables. Here is his almost perfect version two PUL 700 x700mm with goodies on display. My restoration is based on these references. He also found second version two table in poor but restorable condition. Everything are completed, only the wood needs treatment, looking forward for the…
Read more

Correct me if I am wrong. Knew nothing of this table before my restoration. Still not understand the meaning of ‘Planunterlage’. From the postwar 1953 Norwegian manual translated as: ‘TABLE, MEASURE, FIRE CONTROL, 700 x 700 mm, w/accessories.‘ From the Geräteliste there are other sizes existing; the smaller PlU 440 x 680mm and the big…
Read more