Mercedes-Benz L3000
The Mercedes -Benz L 3000 was a truck of Daimler -Benz AG, which was produced from 1938 to 1945 in Germany.
Development and preliminary models
From 1896, Daimler-Motoren -Gesellschaft and light and heavy trucks built next to passenger vehicles with a payload up to 10 t for the civilian and the military sector. The Reichswehr used 3- ton truck as a crew car. From 1934, Daimler- Benz produced under the name Mercedes -Benz LG 63 some -terrain vehicle trials, 3000 were after successful testing as Mercedes LG in series production and were delivered from 1936 to Wehrmacht, imperial post, Reichsbahn and farms.
Mercedes L 3000
From 1938, the 3-ton truck Mercedes L 3000 followed - work internally as LGF 3000 called - as a road vehicle with modern steel cab. In contrast to the mostly gasoline-powered truck in its time the L 3000 had a 4850 cc diesel engine with an engine power of 75 hp at 2250/min.
When war broke out in 1939 many LG and L were collected as part of the 3000 substantive mobilization supplement and used by the Wehrmacht. The Wehrmacht classified the LG 3000 in the Kriegsstärkenachweisungen as " middle -terrain truck, open ( o )", which received various structures and equipment kits depending on the application.
To conserve resources, the German truck manufacturer were instructed on 1 January 1940 to focus instead of the previous large variety of types on the completion of unit truck. As a " unit truck" types L 3000 or LG 3000 were now under the names Mercedes L 3000 S ( 3000 = 3.0 t, S = Standard), and Mercedes L 3000 A (A = wheel ) delivered. Similarly, the 4.5 - tonne lorry emerged designed Mercedes L 4500 S / A, which were built partly in the variant as a mule - halftrack using chassis of the Panzer II. Even lighter trucks of the types Mercedes L 1100, L 1500 Mercedes S / A and Mercedes L 2000 L (= easy) were delivered.
The unit truck initially differed from the previous models only by the rounded fenders. From 1943 civilian trucks were usually equipped with a wood gasification plant since the scarce gasoline preferably in the Wehrmacht were used. Later the cab usual made for the Unity trucks of wood was used.
Other types of trucks until 1945
Production of the L 3000 was only in 1944 set after the Opel Brandenburg plant failed during an air raid in early August 1944 as a producer and Daimler -Benz is now the sole manufacturer of the important war Opel "Blitz" 3.6 was whose license built in the truck Mannheim plant of Daimler had -Benz started only recently. In addition to the L 3000 and the 3 -to- Opel " Blitz", Daimler -Benz numerous other size classes ago that started the Wehrmacht for the most part.