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G4 W31 Six-Wheeler
Updated Jan. 30th 1999
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| 1937 model | Owned by a French collector |
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| 1936 model | Owned by an American movie supplier |
MB Type G4 (1934-1939)
Long before Hitler Daimler-Benz worked at the development
of a heavy off-road sedan for the Reichswehr ((German military)). According
to ideas of the time a three-axle car was created, called "Typ G4" of which
from 1934 on every year only some were built. Because it was too heavy
and above all too costly for the Reichswehr this car presumably would never
have brought it to special importance if not Hitler and other important
figures of that time would have discovered them and used them at visits
of manoeuvres, the annexation of Austria, the occupation of Czechoslovakia
and then above all for journeys to rearward war zones. For this the Mercedes-Benz
G4 was outstandingly suitable not only because of its off-road ability
but far more because of its size and exclusiveness. Over the time there
were three variants of the engine and also the body's exterior was modified
repeatedly. Some cars were bullet-proof and equipped with bullet-proof
tires. As far as known only three G4 survived the war. One of them, in
running order and restored unsurpassable, is in the private hand of a French
collector. The second car stands wretched run-down at an American movie
supplier ((e.g. used in the TV-series "Hogan`s Heroes"/German title "Ein
Kaefig voller Helden)) and a third, which was brought back to Germany from
Czechoslovakia, waits in dismantled condition, if and when its restoration
will be successful.
End of translation by MBEP webmaster.
As usual remarks in ((blabla)), but (blabla) belongs
to original text.
German language book "Mercedes-Benz Personenwagen 1886-1984"
(MB passenger cars 1886-1984) written by Werner Oswald published by Motorbuch
Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, 1st edition 1984,
ISBN 3-87943-976-1, p. 359ff.
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