Opel 24/50 hp

Opel
Opel 24/50 hp
24/50 hp
Production period:	1910-1912
Class :	Upper class
Body versions :	Touring car , Pullman limousine , landaulet
Engines:	Otto engine : 6.2 liters (37 kW)
Length:	5000 mm
Width:	1800 mm
Height:	2500 mm
Wheelbase :	3600 mm
Empty weight :	Chassis: 1250 kg
Previous model	Opel 25/40 hp
successor	Opel 25/55 hp

The Opel 24/50 PS was a luxury class car that Adam Opel KG built from 1910 to the end of 1912 as the successor to the 25/40 PS model .

History and technology

The car had a side-controlled four - cylinder block engine with a displacement of 6232 cm³ (bore × stroke = 115 mm × 150 mm), producing 50 hp (37 kW) at 1400 rpm. performed. The engine was water-cooled and the cooling water was conveyed by a centrifugal pump. The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a leather cone clutch, a manual four-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . This enabled the car to reach a top speed of 85 km / h.

The two rigid axles were suspended from three-quarter elliptical longitudinal leaf springs on the steel U-profile frame. The service brake was designed as an internal shoe brake and acted on the transmission output shaft. The handbrake consisted of drum brakes only on the rear wheels.

Initially the car was available as a four-seater double phaeton , a four-door Pullman limousine and a landaulet . In early 1912 a four-door torpedo was introduced as an additional variant. The cheapest variant (double phaeton) cost 13,000 RM.

The 24/50 hp was built until the end of 1912. Then the 25/55 hp model replaced it .

literature

• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1885–1920. Volume 1, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 , pp. 281-299.