Tatras 138

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Manufacturer: Tatra Mountains
Sales designation: Tatras 138
Production period: 1961-1972
Previous model: Tatra Mountains 111
Successor: Tatra 148
Technical specifications
Engines: Type T 928 / T 928-12, V8 diesel, air-cooled, 11,762 cm³ displacement
Power: 180 PS / 132.4 kW
Length: 7480 mm
Width: 2450 mm
Height: 2580 mm
Wheelbase: 3690 mm + 1320 mm
Payload: S3: 12 t,
S3M: 13 t
Perm. Total weight: S3: 22.3 t, S3M: 23.2 t

The Tatra 138 truck was built in 1959 and was built in series at Tatra in Kopřivnice from 1961 . Prototypes already existed in 1957. It was developed from the smaller Tatra 137 .

The previous model Tatra 111 was replaced by the Tatra 138 . The "Tatra concept" with air-cooled diesel engine, central tubular frame, all-wheel drive and pendulum axles was retained. The round bonnet and the rounded driver's cab as well as the newly developed T 928 engine, a V8 diesel with 11,762 cm 3 and 180 hp (132.4 kW) were adopted from the Tatra 137 . The engine was suspended in an elastic manner and connected to the gearbox via a cardan shaft. The torsion bar suspension on the front axle was also adopted from the Tatra 137. On the other hand, semi-elliptic leaf springs were used on the rear axle.

By 1972, a total of 48,222 copies of the Tatra 138 were produced in different versions. Its successor was the Tatra 148 . Apart from the two-axle Tatra 138 NT 4 × 4 tractor unit, the 138 was only manufactured as a three-axle 6 × 6. It has been exported to around 40 countries. A typical version of the 138er was the three-way tipper Tatra 138 S3 or the variant with increased payload, Tatra 138 S3M.

  • Tatra 138 with fire brigade body from Karosa

literature

  • Miroslav Gomola: History of Automobilů Tatra II. AGM-Gomola, Brno 2000.
  • Michael Dünnebier: Trucks and buses from socialist countries. 1st edition. Transpress, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00272-4 .
  • The development of air-cooled Tatra diesel engines. In: Motor Vehicle Technology 8/1955, pp. 267–270.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Commercial vehicles on III. Czechoslovak Engineering Exhibition. In: Motor Vehicle Technology 9/1957, pp. 346–347.

Web links

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