Subsidy truck
Subsidy trucks were civilian trucks whose acquisition and operation were subsidized by the German army between 1908 and 1913 . They could be drafted in the event of war.
History and guidelines
The first specifications of the subsidy trucks were a payload of 4 t, a permissible total weight of 9 t and a dead weight of a maximum of 4.5 t. As the minimum engine power was 22 kW prescribed by four cylinder - Otto engines with 5.2 to 6.3 liters and a power output of 30 to 40 horsepower at a speed from 800 to 850 min -1 were achieved. The power was transmitted to the differential via a drive shaft and from there to the rear axle via chains . Subsidy road trains were manufactured by Benz , Büssing , Daimler , Dürkopp and NAG , among others .
The Prussian army administration promoted the introduction of motor trucks to
“[...] to have such wagons available in the largest possible number by requisitioning in the event of war. The means for this purpose consisted in the state subsidy for motor trucks, an institution with which the Prussian army administration pioneered. "
For the subsidized truck, a grant of 4,000 marks (at a purchase price of 16,000 M) was paid for the purchase and an annual contribution of 1,000 marks for five years. Despite this subsidy, truck production in 1913 was only 1850 units.
For subsidy trucks with trailers, a brakeman was required to operate the trailer brake and to find space on the trailer.
A few days after the declaration of war in World War I , around 1,000 subsidy trucks were requisitioned and put into military service. Since the demand was much higher, around 25,000 standardized 3-tonne trucks were produced directly for the military in the course of the war .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Olaf von Fersen : A century of automobile technology - commercial vehicles. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-18-400656-6 , pp. 18, 123.
- ^ Olaf von Fersen : A century of automobile technology - commercial vehicles. VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-18-400656-5 , p. 18.
- ↑ a b Th. Wolff: The automobile in war. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 330, 1915, pp. 281-289.
- ^ Werner Oswald : Motor vehicles and tanks of the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr. 14th edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-87943-850-1 , p. 24.
- ↑ Christoph Maria Merki: The bumpy triumph of the automobile 1895–1930, for the motorization of road traffic in France, Germany and Switzerland. Böhlau, Wien 2002, p. 84, ISBN 978-3-205-99479-4 (also dissertation at the University of Bern 2001).