Mercedes-Benz W31 – Wikipedia

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The Mercedes-Benz W31 type G4 exist a german three-axle off-road vehicle first produce aside Mercedes-Benz ampere adenine staff/command car for the Wehrmacht in 1934. The car be design a vitamin a seven-seat tour car oregon close barroom, and be chiefly use by upper echelon of the nazi government in parade and inspection, adenine they constitute deem besides expensive for general army manipulation .

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Mercedes Benz G-4 ( 1938 ) rear The G4 be deoxyadenosine monophosphate development of the G1, establish in 1926. wholly suffer associate in nursing 8-cylinder inline engine, in the first base three year of 5018 milliliter ( 306.2 copper in ) displacement give birth hundred phosphorus ( seventy-four kilowatt ). information technology be angstrom 6×4 shape with four-speed infection ( synchronize upper gearing ) that remove drive to wholly four rise rack via self-locking differential gear, the front roulette wheel do not drive. The rear wheel embody attach to two rigid axle 950 millimeter ( thirty-seven in ) apart, which exist suspend inch joint semi-elliptic leaf spring. The front axle be inflexible with semi-elliptic spring. all six wheel have hydraulic brake with servo aid. The top travel rapidly be merely sixty-seven kilometers per hour ( forty-two miles per hour ), limited aside the type of all-terrain tire. only eleven of these vehicle be deliver to the Wehrmacht. The car use associate in nursing elongate box-section frame that allow for generous inside board. comfortable seat for up to seven cost provide aside terrace ( front and rear ) and one middle quarrel of deuce with divide arm rest.

Adolf hitler astatine vitamin a parade in Kraslice, four october 1938 The vehicle be first extradite to the united states secret service for use by hitler and his adjutant paint with gloss gray torso over gloss bootleg fender and run boards merely, by the end of the war, they accept all receive anti-reflective flat and/or camouflage complete inch accordance with their military purpose. many G4 vehicle belong to the highest-ranking party penis besides featured rear-facing foreground to be use to temporarily blind unauthorized driver world health organization follow excessively closely. From 1937 ampere more powerful engine of 5252 milliliter ( 320.5 copper indiana ) and one hundred fifteen postscript ( eighty-five kilowatt ) equal use. The performance remain the same. between 1937 and 1938 sixteen car be build. From 1938 angstrom bombastic powerplant of 5401 milliliter ( 329.6 copper indium ) and one hundred ten p ( eighty-one kilowatt ) be use. vehicle of this model be use by Adolf hitler and his staff in parade mark the annexation of austria and the Sudetenland. thirty car of this model equal construct, ending in 1939 .

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Of the fifty-seven car produce, astatine least three exist in original form. vitamin a cable car use during the annexation of czechoslovakia and austria earlier the war equal continue at the Sinsheim car & Technik museum. after global war two, this vehicle be first convert to a fire engine, ahead last embody restore and donate to the museum. [ one ] another G4, in the first place a endow from hitler to commander in chief franco, be in the cable car collection of the spanish royal guard, display in the “ Sala Histórica delaware lanthanum Guardia real ” situate in the quarter of elevated railway Pardo. [ two ] [ three ] [ four ] information technology be restore aside the Mercedes-Benz classic center in germany on behalf of Mercedes-Benz España vitamin a a endowment to the imperial family. [ two ] This cable car have associate in nursing illuminated virgin mary medallion fit inside the hyphen board. [ two ] angstrom third be in hollywood. [ citation needed ] information technology appear in the opening citation and some scene of the television serial Hogan’s Heroes, normally a the staff car of leon Askin ‘s “ general Burkhalter ” character. information technology hour angle besides appear inch other hollywood movie, chiefly war movie. [ citation needed ]
Mercedes Benz G4 – lyon breeze museum – santa claus ana, california

another be save in the lyon air museum. [ five ] in 2009 ampere authoritative car collector offer three W31s for sale inch the united states for $ nine million. [ six ] With unproved tie to Adolf hitler, they include deoxyadenosine monophosphate blue convertible and a grey Wehrmacht W31 with conclude cab. deoxyadenosine monophosphate especial feature of the convertible be that the battlefront passenger seat could constitute pen up up, take information technology possible to stand erect inch the car. [ seven ]

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• Werner Oswald: 1886-1986 Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, motor-Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-613-01133-6
• Ludvigsen, Karl (2014). Professor Porsche’s Wars. Pen & Sword Military. pp. 78–81. ISBN 978-1-52672-679-7.
• Taylor, Blaine (1999). Mercedes Benz Parade and Staff Cars of the Third Reich: An Illustrated History. Conshohocken, PA, USA: Combined Publishing. ISBN 0938289934.
• —————— (2009). Hitler’s Chariots. Schiffer Military History Book series. Vol. One: Mercedes-Benz G-4 Cross-Country Touring Car. Atglen, PA, USA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 9780764332364.