![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilhelm von Opel headed the ads campaign and eventually proposed as grand prize a 4/20 hp limousine, and for others, Opel Motoclub motorbikes. It was sought throughout Germany in a competition, with the prize being an Opel. To find the name, they choose an avantgarde method at that time, but both high-profile and effective. Tp promote it, Opel's advertising department had the idea of creating a short term pronounced in German as well as in any modern language, composed of only five letters. From 1923, Opel started to introduce lighter trucks, short-wheelbase and vans with a payload of 1-2 tonnes.įor the 1931 model exhibitions, a new model was prepared by Opel's engineers, which succeeded in creating a sturdy and affordable “express transport truck” with an excellent, yet simple design in a times of vivid economical crisis. During WW1 already the military standadized the type to four tonnes, driving Opel to devise a larger and more reobust “standard truck”, produced and sold until the early 1920s. In 1907, the first truck was added to the portfoli, a 3/4 tonne vehicle with pneumatic tyres, propeller shaft drive and 2-4 cylinder engines. Delivery and transport vans were built, based on “System Lutzmann”, patent created the first automobile in Rüsselsheim. The origins of commercial automotive venture by the pioneer Fritz Opel dated back 1899. Opel Blitz 1.5 tons pickup (1932), one of the three body style available with the van and bus to the civilian market. During WW2, the Opel Blitz became the prime utility truck of the Wehrmacht, deployed in every front. The logo created for this brand, two stripes arranged loosely like a lightning symbol in the form of a horizontally stretched letter "Z", became the Opel logo. The Blitz (German for "lightning"), coined in a prize competition, became a brand name for various light and middle-weight trucks, right up to 1975. About 130,000 built The Blitz, Opel's legendĭuring the interwar, Opel became the largest truck manufacturer in Germany. ![]() Opel Blitz Germany (1934-44) Medium Truck. ![]()
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