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Opel Blitz (Blitz being German for "lightning") was the name given to various light and middleweight trucks built by the German Opel automobile manufacturer between 1930 and 1975. The original logo for this truck, two stripes arranged loosely like a lightning symbol in the form of a horizontally stretched letter "Z", still appears in the ...
Assembly facilities at the Brandenburg Opel plant (1936) The Opelwerk Brandenburg was a truck vehicle assembly plant, located in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany.Built within seven months, it was opened by Adam Opel AG in November 1935 on the re-armament initiative of the Nazi government in order to ensure supplies of Opel Blitz trucks for the Wehrmacht armed forces.
Bedford was a General Motors subsidiary, and in some markets outside the United Kingdom and Ireland the CF was sold through Opel dealers as the Opel Bedford Blitz from 1973 on when the original Opel Blitz was phased out. In other markets such as in Norway the CF retained its original name.
1937–1939, 1964–1977 Opel Admiral; 1937–1938 Opel Super 6; 1939–1970 Opel Kapitän; 1953–1957 Opel Olympia Rekord; 1964–1977 Opel Diplomat; 1967–1982 Opel Commodore; 1968–1973, 2006–2009 Opel GT; 1970–1988 Opel Ascona; 1970–1988 Opel Manta; 1973–1986 Opel Bedford Blitz; 1978–1986 Opel Monza; 1978–1993 Opel Senator ...
The first postwar Opel Blitz truck was completed on 15 July 1946 in the presence of United States Army General Geoffrey Keyes and other local leaders and press reporters. [25] Opel's Rüsselsheim plant also made Frigidaire refrigerators in the early post-war years. [26] Opel GT This two seater sports car was introduced in 1968 and was produced ...
The engine was shared with the 3.5-ton Opel Blitz truck produced at the manufacturer's recently opened commercial vehicle plant at Brandenburg an der Havel [2] southwest of Berlin, and similar enough to the Chevrolet and Vauxhall/Bedford straight-sixes of the time that many service parts interchanged – something that was discovered when the ...
Mercedes-Benz L3000 truck (27,700) was the most bought in 1944; Opel Blitz truck; Raupenschlepper Ost tracked truck; Steyr 1500A light truck; Horch 108 heavy off-road passenger car, Einheits-PKW der Wehrmacht; Volkswagen Kübelwagen 4-piston multipurpose all-terrain support vehicle (50,435) Volkswagen Schwimmwagen amphibious variant of the ...
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