The first automotive items included within the National Military Museum’s collections were the vehicle used by King Ferdinand during the Great War and the vehicle used by Prince Carol on 6^th June 1930 when he went from Băneasa Airfield to Cotroceni Palace, returning for the throne. Both items were lost during the 1938 fire. The interest in this collection was reactivated during the Second World War when the museum exhibited, with an obvious propaganda role, a number of Soviet, British and American armoured vehicles (tanks and self-propelled artillery), captured on the front lines. These pieces were recovered by the Red Army after 1944, thus disbanding the collection. Its revival began in 1949 when materiel removed from usage was turned over to the Military Museum, thus making the current collection, which in the beginning had the Renault FT-17, the Renault R-35 and the TACAM R-2 (self-propelled anti-tank artillery cannon). Up until today the collection grew with several other valuable pieces such as the Sdkfz 9 FAMO 18 t heavy half-track, the PzKpfw 4, the T-34, the T-55, the TR-580, the TR-800, the T-72, the TR-85 M1 or the P-125 Tanks or the Renault-Malaxa UE Chenillette and the SU-76 or the SU-100 self-propelled cannons, as well as a number of armoured personnel carriers, tracked artillery tractors and trucks.