Opel 9/30 PS

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9/30 hp
Production period:	1922-1924
Class :	upper middle class
Body versions :	Touring cars , roadsters , Pullman limousines , landaulets
Engines:	Otto engine : 2.3 liters (22 kW)
Length:	4500 mm
Width:	1700 mm
Height:
Wheelbase :	3155 mm
Empty weight :
Previous model	Opel 9/25 hp
successor	Opel 10/40 hp

The Opel 9/30 PS was an upper middle class passenger car that Adam Opel KG built from 1922 to the end of 1924 as the successor to the 9/25 PS model .

In 1922 Opel presented two models as successors to the 9/25 PS model that had been built for many years, the 9/30 PS and the 10/30 PS .

The engine of the 9/30 PS was a four - cylinder block engine with a displacement of 2332 cm³, which made 30 PS (22 kW) at 1600 rpm. This engine was basically a more powerful version of the previous model.

The car had a frame made of steel U-profiles, on which both rigid axles were suspended with semi-elliptical longitudinal leaf springs. The service brake was a band brake that acted on the transmission output shaft. The engine power was transmitted to the rear axle via a leather cone clutch, a three-speed gearbox and a cardan shaft . Opel used the cone clutch and band brake on this model for the last time.

A touring car , a Pullman limousine , a landaulet and a roadster were available as factory bodies .

The last time this model was given the suffix “Motorwagen”, which originally distinguished automobiles from horse-drawn wagons. This was already perceived as an anachronism in the early 1920s . Together with the production of the 10/30 PS and 10/35 PS, the 9/30 PS was also discontinued at the end of 1924. The successor in the following year was the 10/40 hp .

literature

• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Volume 2, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-02170-6 .