Steyr 50
| Steyr | |
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 Steyr 50 (1936)
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| 50/55 | |
| Sales designation: | Steyr 50/55 |
| Production period: | 1936-1940 |
| Class : | Small car |
| Body versions : | limousine |
| Engines: |
Gasoline engines : 1.0–1.2 liters (16.2–18.8 kW) |
| Length: | 3610-3670 mm |
| Width: | 1520-1530 mm |
| Height: | 1460 mm |
| Wheelbase : | 2250 mm |
| Empty weight : | 750-815 kg |
The Steyr 50 is a small car from Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG with a water-cooled four - cylinder boxer engine and rear-wheel drive . The two-door sedan was known as the Austrian “Volkswagen” and was affectionately known as the “Steyr Baby”. Steyr-Daimler-Puch built exactly 13,000 vehicles from 1936 to 1940.
development
The streamlined body with rear-hinged doors was Karl Jenschke's last design for the Steyr-Werke. Jenschke took over the post of chief designer at Adler in Frankfurt / Main in November 1935 . The four-cylinder boxer engine with thermosiphon water cooling installed at the front drove the rear wheels via a four-speed gearbox with center shift. Ferdinand Porsche - contrary to contemporary rumors - had nothing to do with the vehicle, although Jenschke was temporarily in official contact with him, as was Hans Ledwinka , who had designed the V-570 prototype at Tatra from 1931 .
The Steyr 50 was presented to the public in February 1936 at the 26th International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition (IAMA) in Berlin and presented to the press on March 6, 1936. The thousandth “baby” was delivered as early as mid-1936; At the beginning of December 1937, the five thousandth car rolled off the assembly line. The Steyr 50 cost 2865 Reichsmarks in the German Reich in 1937 .
In the spring of 1938 the car was revised: the new Steyr 55 model got a more powerful engine with more displacement, perforated wheel disks and became a little longer with the same wheelbase due to the modified bumpers. Due to the war, production was stopped in 1940.
Upper Austrian auto suppliers joined forces to form the Steyrer Technologie Manufaktur and announced in May 2008 that they wanted to develop a successor to the Steyr 50 with an electric or hybrid drive.
Technical specifications
| Vehicle type: | Type 50 | Type 55 |
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| construction time | 1936 to 1938 | 1938 to 1940 |
| Engine: | Four-cylinder four-stroke boxer engine at the front, water-cooled; Lateral valves inclined, operated by a central camshaft, double drive by spur gears , last examples type 50 (1938) and all type 55: triple bearing crankshaft, pressure circulating lubrication |
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| Carburetor | Type 50: a flat-flow carburetor Pallas MP 30, last examples type 50 (1938) and all type 55: Solex 30 BFRH |
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| Displacement : | 984 cc | 1158 cc |
| Bore × stroke: | 59 mm × 90 mm | 64 mm × 90 mm |
| Performance at 1 / min: | 16.2 kW (22 hp) | 18.8 kW (25.5 PS) |
| Electrical system | 12 volts, generator / starter as light starting machine | |
| drive | Four-speed gearbox, cardan shaft, rear differential with rubber bearings | |
| Front axle | Independent wheel suspension on two transverse leaf springs, rack and pinion steering | |
| Rear axle | Pendulum axle on pushed trailing arms, transverse leaf spring | |
| construction | two-door sedan with a self-supporting all-steel body | |
| Wheelbase : | 2250 mm | |
| Track (v + h) / turning circle | 1250 mm / 10.5 m | |
| Dimensions L × W × H: | 3610 × 1530 × 1460 mm | 3670 × 1520 × 1460 mm |
| Empty weight | 750 kg | 815 kg |
| Load capacity | 350 kg | ? |
| Top speed: | 90 km / h | 95 km / h |
| Number of pieces: | 5200 | 7800 |
| Price (in Austria) | 4500 ÖS | 5000 ÖS |
literature
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- OLDTIMER MARKT , issue 2/1999, VF Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Mainz
- Werner Oswald: German Cars Volume 2 - 1920-1945 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6 .
- Hans Löwl: The electrical equipment of the Austrian Volkswagen Steyr 50 .: Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna. Organ of the Association of Austrian and Hungarian Electricity Companies / Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna (and organ of the branch association Brno) / E. u. M. (E and M) electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna / E and M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna from 1883 to 1938 / E and M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Organ / journal of the Elektrotechnisches Verein Österreichs , year 1936, SS 390–393 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- More information about Steyr 50 and Steyr 55 , accessed on March 6, 2011
- Photos of Steyr 50 and Steyr 55 , accessed on March 6, 2011
- The page for Steyr 50 and 55 , accessed on March 6, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ This corresponds to approx. 12,400 euros today. This figure was based on the template: Inflation determined, rounded to 100 EUR and applies to the previous January
- ↑ Successor to the Steyr 50 planned , website of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, accessed on March 6, 2011
- ↑ Oldtimer Markt , Issue 2/1999, VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz
- ↑ Number of items on Zuckerfabrik24.de , accessed on March 6, 2011