Rumpler truck
The Rumpler truck was developed by the Austrian vehicle and aircraft designer Edmund Rumpler with a teardrop-shaped , aerodynamic body and front-wheel drive, which was presented at the IAA in Berlin in 1931 .
The vehicle, two of which were built with different engines, was commissioned by the publisher Rudolf Ullstein for his Ullstein Verlag . The first truck, the RuV 29, had a Maybach six-cylinder engine with 100 hp. The second Rumpler truck type RuV 31 had a twelve-cylinder V-engine with 200 hp and could travel at 100 km / h. Both trucks had drive shafts with two cardan joints that transferred the power to the large front wheels. The two non-driven rear axles were designed in a balance beam design and provided with smaller wheels and twin tires. Continental had developed its own special tires that were suitable for vehicles over 100 km / h. The payload was five tons. The body builder Gottfried Lindner in Ammendorf had made the truck panel van in cooperation with the Ambi-Budd press shop in Johannisthal and the Berlin body manufacturer Luchterhand & Freytag in Berlin-Tempelhof . Both vehicles were used by Ullstein Verlag to transport newspapers from Berlin to the Baltic Sea resorts. In 1943 the Rumpler trucks were destroyed in an air raid on Berlin.