Usually 3-ton trucks
The regular 3-ton truck (also regular truck ) was a German truck used in World War I , the development of which was commissioned by the Supreme Army Command .
history
As early as 1908, under certain conditions, civilly procured trucks were subsidized by the German army as so-called subsidy trucks if they met certain technical requirements that enabled the vehicles to be used in the military.
The standard 3-ton truck was developed from a military point of view by the engineer Buschmann at Magirus in order to simplify production with standardized parts and thereby increase the number of pieces.
The standard 3-ton truck with a payload of 3 t and a top speed of 30 km / h was manufactured from 1915 to 1918 by almost all companies in the commercial vehicle industry in Germany. In order to maintain mass production - despite the lack of natural rubber for tire production - wooden spokes and wooden rims were used, to which rubber blocks were screwed, or - according to the Büssing system - an iron tire was attached over the wooden rim. By the end of the war, around 25,000 trucks had been built that were used to transport ammunition, food supplies and supplies.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Motorized road trains and freight transport with motor vehicles. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 324, 1909, pp. 682-686.
- ^ Olaf von Fersen : A century of automobile technology - commercial vehicles. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-18-400656-5 , p. 21.
- ^ Olaf von Fersen: A century of automobile technology - commercial vehicles. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-18-400656-5 , p. 218.
- ^ Werner Oswald : Motor vehicles and tanks of the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr. 14th edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-87943-850-1 , p. 13.