Adler 2.5-litre
Eagle 2.5 liter sedan
The Eagle 2.5 liter is a car, which the Adlerwerke 1937 brought out as "Type 10". It was intended as a successor of the model diplomat. The streamlined body was the work of chief designer Karl Jenschke ( 1899-1969 ), who until November 1935 was a senior engineer at Steyr -Daimler -Puch AG., where he had recently designed the small car Type 50 ( " Steyr- Baby" ), which the eagle 2.5 very similar. Because of the streamlined shape and the finished widely found in the same period new motorways, the car was popularly referred to as highway eagle or eagle - highway vehicles.
The four-door sedans with sunroof karossierte Ambi- Budd, the two - and four -seat convertibles were from Karmann.
1938 appeared a two-door sports sedan than eagles 2.5 liter sport. Your engine was higher compressed (1: 7.25 instead of 1: 6.25) and had taken the two Solex downdraft carburettors three flat current carburetor. Thus, the engine power increased to 80 hp (59 kW). The elegant body with covered rear wheels delivered groin in Berlin or glasses in Dresden.
Engine and transmission
The Eagle 2.5 liter had a longitudinally-mounted water-cooled six-cylinder four -stroke engine with a displacement of 2494 cc, four- bearing crankshaft and pressure lubrication. The standing valves controlled lateral, driven by spur gears camshaft. Radiator, engine and transmission were far ahead. The force was transmitted to the rear wheels via a cardan shaft.
The four-speed gearbox was synchronized in the corridors of two to four. Was connected with a handle on the dashboard (so-called turret indexing ).
Frame and chassis
Load-bearing element of the car was welded to a bottom deck box frame, the longitudinal beams have been performed in an arc around the vehicle floor, in order to achieve a spacious inner space ( " fish-belly frame "). The front wheels were suspended on wishbones and Viertelelliptikfedern, the rear wheels on a swing axle with tie rods and transverse leaf spring. The differential was bolted to the frame. All four wheels have hydraulic shock absorbers and hydraulically operated drum brakes. The steering was a ZF -Ross steering.
Body
The welded to the frame four-door hatchback and all-steel body with a drag coefficient of 0.36 was known in her time as a very good flow. She had the basic equipment four doors that were posted on the B- pillar, and a large steel sunroof that reached the second third of the rear doors almost the entire width of the roof and from the windscreen to above. 1939 This large sunroof but was scaled down in order to make it smoother. From the beginning, the closely spaced next to the grille headlights proved little purpose and were therefore supplemented by so-called " wide beam " on the fenders, of which only one was from 1938 but still permissible.
Among the improvements of the body from 1939 included, among other things, the externally accessible trunk with up under the rear window reaching flap instead of only small opening for the spare wheel. In addition, the rear wheel arches covers received. In addition, the dashboard with speedometer, fuel gauge, temperature and oil pressure gauge and timer was made clearer.
Production period
The Eagle 2.5 liter was introduced in Berlin in the spring of 1937 at the 27th International Automobile and Motorcycle Exhibition ( IAMA ). The first vehicles were delivered however, only in November, at a price of 5750 Reichsmarks. Until 1940 saw overall 5295 Highway eagle.
Specifications
- L2 = 2 -door sedan
- L4 = 4-door sedan
- Cb2 = 2-door convertible
Swell
- Werner Oswald: German cars from 1920 to 1945. Motorbuchverlag Stuttgart, 10th edition (1996 ), ISBN 3-87943-519-7.
- Michael Hundt: Wind face. In Oldtimer Markt, Issue 1/2011, pp. 38-43.