IFA H3

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H3
Manufacturer:	VEB HORCH motor vehicle and engine works Zwickau
Production period:	1947-1949
Previous model:	none
Successor:	Horch / IFA H3A
Technical specifications
Designs:	Pickup truck
Engines:	Otto engine : 4.2 liters (74 kW)
Payload:	3.0 t
Perm. Total weight:	6.9 t

The H3 ( H orch 3 tons ) was a truck that was manufactured after the Second World War from 1947 to 1949 in the Zwickau Horch factory (now VEB HORCH motor vehicle and engine works Zwickau ).

history

The H3 was largely based on the design documents of the AU 1500 truck with 1.5 t payload developed in 1941 at the Siegmar plant (formerly Wanderer ) of Auto Union , which, however, had not gone into production. Only its successor, the H3A , presented in 1951, was the first independently developed truck in the GDR. The exterior of the H3A already differs through its typical long- nosed cab.

The H3 were mainly made from vehicle parts from the war production of the Sd.Kfz. 11 manufactured. In this way, 852 trucks were built. When essential parts were used up, production of the H3 came to an end.

technology

The two-axle H3 has rear-wheel drive . The truck is a semi-front-wheel drive or short-hooded truck (truck with a short "nose").

H3 with a different cab variant

H3 flatbed truck with trailer

engine

• Type: Maybach HL 42 ( H och l eistungsmotor, 4.2  l, gasoline engine )
• Type: six-cylinder in - line engine
• Bore × stroke : 90 mm × 110 mm
• Displacement : 4198 cm³
• Power: 74 kW (100 hp) at 3000 min ^-1
• Alternator: 12 V, 130 W.
• Cooling: water

Power transmission

• Rear axle drive
• Clutch: two-disc dry clutch
• Transmission: unsynchronized, 4-speed + mountain gear + 1 reverse gear; Gear thrust transmission with ball circuit
• Axle drive: simply translated rear axle

landing gear

• U-profile frame
• Front suspension: rigid axle, leaf springs
• Rear suspension: rigid axle, leaf springs
• Steering: mechanical
• Brake system: all-wheel brake servo-mechanical, mechanical parking brake
• Wheelbase: 3000 mm
• Track width: 1650/1642 mm
• Overall dimensions: 5945 mm × 2300 mm × 2420 mm (L × W × H, height above cab)
• Tires: 190-20 or 7.50-20
• Vehicle mass: 3900 kg
• permissible total weight: 6900 kg
• Permissible payload: 3000 kg
• Top speed: 65 km / h
• Tank capacity: 100 l

commitment

The truck was mainly intended for civilian use, but was also used by the People's Police and the barracked People's Police of the GDR.

Designs and superstructures included flatbed with tarpaulin, tipper , suitcase and others.

literature

• Günther Wappler: History of Zwickau and Werzeit commercial vehicle construction. Verlag Bergstrasse, Aue 2005.
• Günther Wappler: The braked truck. Verlag Bergstrasse, Aue 2006.
• Günther Wappler: The S 4000-1 and its models. Verlagsgesellschaft Erz-Art, Aue 2017, ISBN 978-3-9815130-6-6 .
• Werner Lang: We Horch workers are building vehicles again. Bergstrasse Publishing House, Aue 2007.
• Peter Kirchberg: Plastic, sheet metal and planned economy. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schöne Vices ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 354 ​​kB), issue 1/06, page 2.

Web links

Commons : IFA H3  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Photographs:
  • H3 next to an H3A ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Saxon Commercial Vehicle Museum
  • H3B (H3 bus) as front control
  • H3B (H3 bus) as a short hood