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From: Raimondo L. Torelli <thealamo@iigbna.iigb.na.cnr.it>
To: Military Vehicles List <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Date: 29 February 2000 09:19
Subject: [MV] Hitler's car
>The book is full of black/white photos. Please, note that this is NOT a
>book on the nazi regime, it is a book on Mercedes-Benz staff cars, it shows
>Hitler's Mercedes 770K 4 wheel cars (including the one in the Canadian
>Museum) but also Mercedes 6 wheel staff cars used by high rank officers.
>As a curiosity: Vanderveen book on WWII military vehicles shows some photo
>of Japanese 6 wheel cars... (copy of the German ones?).
>
Again it should be obvious that no particular G4 or 770K can rightly be called
"Hitler's car", some 120 of the 770Ks were made and an early issue of "After the
Battle" deals with both types in great detail, the article has extensive data on
registration numbers, chassis numbers and deliveries drawn from archive
documents.
The Japanese 6 wheel command car, Sumida K93, is a copy of the American Hudson
Special, 6 of these were supplied to the Japanese govt in 1932 for use in the
Manchurian war. Similar models were also built by TGE.
>
>I am curious to hear how many 6 wheel G4/W31 Mercedes-Benz cars have
>survived and where are preserved: if you have any info, please, let me
>know! One is in the Las Vegas Casino Museum mentioned in the article posted
>by OKMTRPOOL, where are the others?
>
There may be more then one G4 in Las Vegas, there are reputed to be at least 60
of the 770Ks in one collection there and I have a personal friend who has been
allowed to actually view 40 of them. Quite a significant number were
"up-armoured" and supercharged accordingly, so again it is incorrect to define
any one vehicle as "Hitler's car".
>I have another book titled "Presidential Cars and Transportation" or
>something. It shows a private museum (in Las Vegas, IIRC!) where many
>cars, used by the Presidents of the U.S., have been restored and preserved.
>
As above.
Richard
(Southampton - England)
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