Wanderer W21

The Wanderer W21 is a passenger car of the middle class of the Wanderer brand with 1.7 -liter six- cylinder engine and rear wheel drive. The Auto Union presented him 1933 as a smaller version of the Wanderer W22 with 2- liter engine. Both were developed in the design office of Ferdinand Porsche in Stuttgart as Porsche Type 7. The W21 was a four-door sedan and two-door convertible ( two windows ) on the market. The limousines were manufactured in the Auto Union plant at Chemnitz Sigmar that built the chassis, which were provided by Gläser in Dresden with the Cabriolet configuration.

The W21 has the same engine as its predecessor, W17 (7/ 35 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 brake cable of the W17 is a hydraulically actuated " oil pressure brake" came from ATE ( Lockheed license ).

In 1931, developed by Porsche, above -controlled in-line engine with side camshaft ( spur gear ) has 1.7 liter displacement and 35 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 W235. Then, instead of a convertible 4-door touring car was offered.

The otherwise identical successor Wanderer W35 with front independent suspension (double - wishbone with transverse spring ) was only in 1936 in the offer before with rear " floating axis" and a newly designed 1.8 - liter four-cylinder engine with side valves ( sideguided ) from Wanderer W24 was replaced.

Together with the 2- liter cars W22, W240 and W40 and the 2.3-liter vehicles W245, W250, W45, W50, and 29,111 copies were made ​​.

Specifications

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

Swell

  • Werner Oswald: German cars 1920-1945, engine book publishing house, Stuttgart 1996, 10th edition, ISBN 3879435197
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