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Opel Blitzbus "Straßenzepp Essen"
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The Opel Blitz 'Strassenzepp Essen' was a German bus of the mid 1930's. It was built by the truck body workshop of Ludewig Brothers on the chassis of the well-known Opel Blitz 3 ton truck. The bus had an unusually futuristic exterior for that time, and was extensively used in promotional activities to demonstrate the progress of Germany's motor industry. The overall production of this type was limited. However, completed vehicles were used not only for propaganda but also for transportation of excursions around cities, of foreign guests during the 1936 Olympics, and so on. Some of the 'Strassenzepp Essen' buses were later passed on to Luftwaffe military departments for crew transport.
At the beginning of the 1930's Germany gradually recovered after the
protracted economic depression caused by the aftermath of WWI and the
stormy political events of the Twenties. The rise of Adolf Hitler, who
set out the goal of renewing the political role and importance of
Germany, which it had had before the Great War, became the spur for a
rapid growth in diverse sectors of industry, including the automobile
industry. However, Germany, although the motherland of the automobile as
such, had allowed other countries to take up the leadership of the
motor industry during the early years of the 20th Century; first of all
France and England, and these countries had become the trendsetters in
motor vehicle development.
In the middle of the Thirties the renowned designer
Ferdinand Porsche proposed the concept of a "folk car" to Hitler. He
developed a small automobile, which then became one of the classics of
the motor industry, the VW Beetle. The elegant contours of this car
inspired a real boom among German auto designers. Cars of previous years
had a body of distinct and separate forms, amongst which were
distinguished a hood, rear body, boot, etc. Now a preference was given
to the construction of cutting edge aerodynamic forms, and soon these
new features were widespread not only on automobiles but also on trucks,
buses and even passenger-trains.
The small truck body workshop of Ludewig Brothers in the
German city of Essen had been installing bodies of their own design on
the chassis base of trucks from the leading German motor manufacturers
for some years. In the 1930's the Ludewig firm cooperated especially
closely with the Opel business concern. After the appearance of the Opel
Blitz three ton truck the Ludewig Brothers workshop developed a few new
conceptual bodies for this vehicle. One of them was a bus of
incredibly stylish exterior with a rounded hood, a streamlined body
shape, and finishing off with two aerodynamic fins behind. This
vehicle's name “
Strassenzepp” was intended to conjure up the idea of a "Zeppelin for autobahns".
This unusual bus did not only have a futuristic exterior.
Passengers were situated inside on luxurious chairs of rounded form,
which were positioned at an angle of 45 degrees to the windows. It was
considered that buses of this type would carry out excursion trips, and
passengers would benefit from an excellent view out of the bus through
the large panoramic side and overhead windows.
In the middle 1930's the truck body workshop of Ludewig
Brothers constructed a small production batch of these vehicles. Even
for that time their production was expensive, and that is why the
workshop did not receive large orders for them. These machines were
widely used for propaganda motor races on the newly built autobahns, and
some of them were used to transport the numerous foreign guests of
Germany during the Olympiad of 1936 in Berlin. A few were delivered to
ODI, a transport firm, for intercity travel.
Apart from civilian service, buses of this type were taken
over for military purposes. The German Air Force employed them for crew
transport. However, such occasions were singular, and their main aim was
the enhancement of the Luftwaffe's propaganda.
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