MCi-43 makeshift passenger car
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 Makeshift passenger car type MCi-43
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| Numbering: | 300,002-305,081 306,000-306,012 |
| Number: | 5093 pieces |
| Year of construction (s): | 1943-1944 |
| Type : | Freight wagon type |
| Genre : | DR: MCi DB: MCi-43 DR until 1966: Bib from 1966: Baaib |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 12,300 mm |
| Height: | 4080 mm |
| Width: | 3020 mm |
| Top speed: | 90 km / h |
| Seats: | 52–60 depending on the version |
The makeshift passenger cars of the type MCi-43 were created on the basis of construction drawings of the Glmhs Leipzig wagon class and were procured by the Deutsche Reichsbahn from 1943 in order to counteract the loss of passenger train cars during the war . Although they were later to be dismantled into freight wagons , these wagons remained indispensable in passenger transport long after the end of the war . The vehicles were used by the Deutsche Bundesbahn until the 1960s , and by the Deutsche Reichsbahn even into the 1970s.
The letters of the generic symbol MCi stand for:
| M. | Makeshift cars, personnel carriers |
| C. | Third class passenger coach |
| i | Car with open transition bridges |
technology
The base frame and the box structure corresponded practically completely to the Glmhs of the Leipzig generic district, but softer suspension springs with fewer spring layers were installed to adapt to use as passenger coaches. The later installation of the loading doors would have been possible without any problems. The door openings were closed with wall elements. The makeshift passenger cars received six wooden translating windows on each side wall . Inward-opening revolving doors were built into the end walls for entry and exit; the entry platforms with a transition to the next car were built on the 150 mm buffer planks. However, due to the limited space available on the platforms, load wagons were given two side entry doors instead of the outer windows. In some cases, existing freight car bodies were also adapted and placed on usable floor frames of war-damaged passenger cars, so that there were different versions with an axle base of 7.5 to 8 meters, cars with long passenger car suspension springs and also three-axle vehicles. The wagons were delivered with stove heating (Ohz), in the course of maintenance they were later equipped with steam heating and electrical lighting (EinhDynBel), which was fed by a belt-driven generator suspended under the floor of the wagon.
commitment
Due to the shortage of cars after the Second World War , more vehicles of this type were produced. They were only taken out of service after the conversion cars had been delivered or converted into construction train and railway company cars. In 1956, after the third class was abolished, the wagons were renamed MBi-43. The cars that were still in stock in 1966 were given EDP numbers, new class symbols and addresses in the middle of the car.
On the occasion of the railroad anniversary in 1985, the DB had a two-axle makeshift passenger car reconstructed. Other MCi are owned by railway associations and some are used in museum traffic.
From 1950 the DB had a total of 236 four-axle baggage and express goods wagons of the type M-Die 996 made from two auxiliary passenger cars , which were in use until the 1980s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eisenbahn Magazin , 11/1995, p. 48.
- ^ P. and S. Wagner: Passenger Car Archive 1. transpress, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00170-1 . P. 181.