World War 2 German 1942 Horch Type 40 comes to New Home
August Horch was one of the pioneer carmakers from Germany which produced 5 hp and 10 hp twin-cylinder car in 1902, he moved to Reichenbach in 1903 and designed a four-cylinder car 20 hp with shaft drive a version 22 hp appeared in 1904, after Horch had again moved production to a new factory in Zwickau in Saxony.
In 1905, 40 hp 5800cc Horch entered production and 1907 saw the first model six-cylinder, 7800 65 hp on the market for Horch cars, a great success in sporting events, quickly became popular and production continued to increase new models included four -cylinder cars 1588cc, 2080cc, 2608cc, 3175cc, 4700cc and 6395cc and there was even a 8440cc four-cylinder version, which was built in small numbers There were also cars with Horch engines sleeve valves, manufactured under license Knight.
In 1909, August Horch left the works, and Georg Paulmann resumed design Horch cars, which now also includes a 2582cc model, a small car for that period and therefore called Pony After the war, Horch built cars including 8 24HP, 10 30hp, 45hp 15, 18 55hp, 25 60 hp and 33 hp models 80, all exposed by the Zwickau factory in Berlin 1921 Exhibition.
Quantity production came in 1924 with a 10-50hp model OHC four-cylinder 2630cc, who succeeded sv 2630cc four-cylinder; 1926 saw the first straight-eight DOHC 3132cc line in production, followed by a 3378cc version of Increased capacity 3950cc 80 bhp at 3200 rpm, but from 1931, there were also new lines eight single OHC Horch cars, designed by Fritz Fiedler, with engines from 3 to 5 liters another new car in the early 1930s was the 6021cc V12 sv Horch with a 120hp engine and ZF-Aphon four-speed gearbox.
Most Horch cars were in the luxury class and often had exclusive body by Glдser Neuss, Armbruster and other great coachbuilders 1933 saw the introduction of new models sv 3004cc V8, 3227cc, 3517cc and 3823cc There was also 850, with a 4946cc OHC straight-eight engine, which developed 100 hp at 3400rpm, while a hotter version, the 951A developed 120hhp the same number of laps less demanding customers have achieved 3517cc and 3823cc V8s.
In Zwickau Horch built 1933-1939 rear Twin Ferdinand Porsche designed the Auto Union Grand Prix cars.
Horch built high-end, beautiful cars to the war, but in 1945 the original Auto Union became defunct name Horch still awaiting a revival in Germany is correct, in 1946 there was the revival of a Horch in East Germany, in Zwickau, but as the name Horch belongs to Auto Union West Germany, East Germans had to give up and call the new car instead Sachsenring.
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