Wanderer W22

The Wanderer W22 is a passenger car of the middle class of the Wanderer brand with a 2- liter six-cylinder engine and rear wheel drive. The Auto Union presented him 1933 as a larger version of the Wanderer W21 with 1.7 - liter engine. Both were developed in the design office of Ferdinand Porsche in Stuttgart as Porsche Type 7. The W22 was a four-door sedan and two-door convertible ( four windows ) on the market. Additionally, there was from the 1934 four-seater touring car. Until 1935 the Auto Union plant at Chemnitz Sigmar produced 5,355 vehicles in 2010 are chassis, which were provided by Gläser in Dresden with the convertible structure,

The W22 has the same engine as its predecessor, W20 (8/ 40 hp ) but improved on the same wheelbase low-frame chassis with front solid axle and torsion bar suspension; rear there is a " swing axle " ( swing axle ) with transverse spring for installation, the Porsche had designed on the basis of his designs at Steyr. Instead of the mechanical cable brake d20 of a hydraulically operated " oil pressure brake" came from ATE ( Lockheed license ).

In 1931, developed by Porsche, above -controlled in-line engine with side camshaft ( spur gear ) has 2 -liter displacement and 40 hp. About an unsynchronized four-speed transmission with shift lever in the center of the car, the rear wheels are driven.

1935 was the name of the same car Wanderer W240. The sedan had only four windows, the convertible only two.

Den with front independent suspension (double - wishbone with transverse spring ) provided, but otherwise identical successor Wanderer W40 introduced the Auto Union in 1936; 1937 accounted for the touring cars.

Specifications

• T4 = 4- seater touring car
• L4 = 4-door sedan
• PL4 = 4-door Pullman limousine
• Cb2 = 2-door convertible

Swell

• Werner Oswald: German cars from 1920 to 1945. Engine book publishing house, Stuttgart 1996, 10th edition, ISBN 3879435197