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S. Berliner, III
Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing "changing materials with high-intensity sound" |
[consultation is on a fee basis]
Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher
- The vast bulk of my massive Web presence (over 485 pages) had been hosted by AT&T's WorldNet service since 30 May 1996;
they dropped WorldNet effective 31 Mar 2010 and I have been scrambling to transfer everything. Everything's saved but all the links have to be changed,
mostly by hand. See my sbiii.com Transfer Page for any updates on this tedious process.
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Adtranz, formed Jan 1996, merging rail transportation activities of ABB Ltd. and Daimler-Benz AG took DaimlerChrysler into the railroad business and the sale of the venture to Bombardier, announced 04 Aug 2000, apparently takes them right out again!
I have restored this page WITHOUT updating it; I hope to do that soon.
(12 Jul 2011)
DISCLAIMER - my interest in Mercedes/Daimler-Benz, whil(e)(st) perhaps encompassing, is primarily in the S and SS series of the late 1920s and early 1930s; this is not intended to be a full-blown history or chronology of the Mercedes marque. - SB,III
I took many photos (including excruciatingly-detailed shots of engine compartments and dashboards) of S and SS cars (and some K, 380K, 500K, 540K, and 770 cars) back in the '50s. Some of these include famed cartoonist and driver, Charles Addams, in his S tourer out at the Bridgehampton (Long Island) track.
[I had digressed on page 3 re a Type 770K and now have so much on it and others that it has become a separate topic on its own, here. - 02 Feb 05]
A specific Hitler Grosser Mercedes 770K, the very one found near the Berghof at Berchtesgaden and presented to General Charles de Gaulle, is now in Florida and about to undergo restoration; any information about this car or about similar restorations or parts sources will be very much appreciated by the present owner (contact me). The most critical item is a distributor to buy (or borrow as a pattern). This particular 770K is pictured in the lower right corner on page 227 of Jan Melin’s Volume I; the licence is Z 96-501.
How odd; I realized that I have a model 770K! It was never on display, is still in its original packing, and is magnificent! It is by Rio in Italy and is gun-metal gray (in spite of the photos). It is described on the box as #21, "1938 grande mercedes - 8 cil. - cmc. 7.700 (scoperta)"*, namely: 1938 Grand (Grosser) Mercedes, 8 cylinders, cc 770 (discovery)*.
31 Jan 2005 photos by and © 2005 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
* - there's ony one little problem with that - the underside of the model is marked in relief (cast in) "MERCEDES BENZ CABRIOLET 1937" and "#1/43". One can logically assume that 1937 vs. 1938 makes no visual difference whatsoever and that 1/43 is the scale (1:43), not the year (Jan 1943, no matter how appropriate that might seem). Further, perhaps the translation of "scoperta" to "discovery" needs some work; it could also mean "detection" or serendipity", neither of which helps much, here.
Oh, good grief; not only is the underside fully-modeled, the front and rear half axles are each independently sprung on miniature coil springs! With all that attention to (quite-literally) detail in a model measuring only 5½" (14cm) long, one might have expected Rio to have the hubcaps turn with the wheels and the hood panels lift separately; it would have been so easy to arrange, just as my Chinese model of the 1932 Chrysler Imperial 8 Le Baron Phaeton (at the same scale) has.
On top of all that, I discovered inside the Rio box a gummed foil sheet to simulate chrome pillars between the windows, with a miniature, illustrated instruction sheet:
02 Feb 2005 scan by S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
[The scratch across Hitler and the vertical crop mark through Linge appear on the original print.]
The car, which was one of only four armo(u)red closed saloons made for the Führer's entourage barely shows; I hope to have more photos for you soon.
Pages 33 and 36 -
L - Der Führer verlaßt die festung Landsberg, 1924
L - The Fuehrer leaves the Landsberg Prison, 1924
{too bad they didn't let him rot there!}
R - Dritter Parteistag: 1927 in Nürnberg, und wieder marschiert des Braune Heer
R - Third (Nazi)party day: 1927 in Nuremberg, and the Brown Army (the Brownshirts) march again
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Pages 49 and 68 (top) -
L - Blutzeugen der Bewegung
L - Bloody witness to the movement
R - „Heil Hitler!" „Heil Hitler!" Der Führer auf der Fahrt zu einer Kundgebung
R - "Heil Hitler!" "Heil Hitler!" The Fuehrer on the road to a rally
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Pages 71 and 94 -
L - Von Kundgebung zu Kundgenung eilt der Führer
L - The Fuehrer rushes from rally to rally
R - Reichspräsident und Reichskanzler am 1. Mai 1933
R - Reich's president (Paul von Hindenburg) and Reich's chancellor Hitler
on 01 May 1933 (the occasion of a great youth rally)
[showing the left side rear detail of K or early Grosser {?} window framing
similar to later 770K model shown above]
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Pages 115 and 116 (top) -
L - Zwei Arbeiter für Deutschland reichen sich die Hand
L - Two workers for Germany shake each other's hands
R - Der gesunde Instinkt des Volkes hatte schon lange in Adolf Hitler den Führer
erkannt . . . .
Freudige Begrüßung auf dem Wege zu einer Kundgebung
R - The sound instinct {sic} of the people has long been realized in Adolf
Hitler as the Fuehrer . . . .
Joyful greetings on the way to a rally
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Pages 116 (bottom) and 144 -
L - Der Führer begrüßt einen Veteranen der Arbeit (Meister Bender von
Mercedes=Benz)
L - The Fuehrer greets a veteran of work (Master Bender of Mercedes-Benz)
R - Der Führer und seine Getreuen - Nürnberg 1933
R - The Fuehrer and his faithful - Nuremberg 1933
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Page 68 (bottom, with enlargement)
Propagandamarsch, München 1932 nach der Aufhebung des Uniformverbotes
Propaganda-march, Munich 1932 after the abolition of the uniform prohibition
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Page 150 (with enlargement)
Appell der 100 000 SA-Männer beim Reichsparteitag in Nürnberg /
Vorbeimarsch
vor dem Führer auf den Adolf-Hitler-Platz
Roll call of 100,000 SA men at the Reich's (Nazi) party day in Nuremberg /
March-by in front of the Fuehrer on the Adolf-Hitler-Place (in the sense of
plaza or square)
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Page 149 -
Hitler nimmt den Vorbeimarsch der SA auf dem Reichsparteitag Nürnberg 1933
ab
Hitler inspects the march-by of the SA at the Reich's (Nazi) party day in
Nuremberg in 1933
This is simply incredible; I finished up posting the "Deutschland Erwacht" photos above in the evening of 04 Dec and the morning of 05 Dec 2005 and that very afternoon got a call from Gary J. Zimet, Curator of MOMENTS IN TIME INC., P.O. Box 37, Washingtonville, New York 10992, 845-496-6699 (FAX 845-496-6367), that he had the purchase documents for Hitler's 29 Jan 1929 order #43966 for a Model 15/70/100 6-cylinder 4/5-passenger Mercedes-Benz for Munich!
The 6-cylinder 15/70/100 is a far smaller car than the 8-cylinder 24/100/140 or 24/160/200 or K or 770K but it is still a more-than-respectably-large-enough car to impress the "troops"; for comparison, the 6.8l. and 7.1l. S and SS cars were 26/120/180, 33/220, 27/170/225, and 36/250 cars.
The full documents can be seen at Gary's site but he gave me permission to show you them here (I have drastically cropped them, to save memory, by omitting much of the "boiler-plate"). They turn out to be that for Hitler's car plus an apparently-undated NSDAP (Nazi Party) order, signed by Hitler, for a 4-door 6/7-passenger open tourer for Berlin; they may well be for cars shown above.
(image courtesy of G. J. Zimet/Moments in Time - all rights reserved)
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(image courtesy of G. J. Zimet/Moments in Time - all rights reserved)
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(image courtesy of G. J. Zimet/Moments in Time - all rights reserved)
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(image courtesy of G. J. Zimet/Moments in Time - all rights reserved)
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(image courtesy of G. J. Zimet/Moments in Time - all rights reserved)
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Both cars are specified to have compressors (superchargers), to be dark blue, and to have wooden wheels. It is amusing that the top material on Hitler's car is specified as "Rubberduck"; the seats are black leather. I will struggle through the other specs as time and my big Langenscheidts dictionary permit; some old technical terminology eludes me.
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