Brand: Force of Valor
Model: 80076, Opel Blitz German 4x4 Ambulance,
France 1940
Material: Diecast
Type: Military Ground
Scale: 1/32
Length: 19cm, Width:7cm
[Stock Available. Original, Brand new and
unused]
Features:
Authentic 1/32 Scale
Die-cast Display Model
Premium Quality Product
Professionally painted.
Great attention to detail.
All markings are Tampoed (pad applied).
Driver figure included.
Extremely heavy metal with a minimum of plastic.
Highly collectable.
Background:
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 current Opel logo. The
Blitz name was then applied to the British-made Bedford CF when it replaced the
Blitz in certain markets.
During the years preceding World War II, Opel was Germany's largest truck
producer. The Blitz name, coined in a prize competition, was first applied to
the new Opel truck presented in November 1930. As part of the Nazi economy and
the German re-armament efforts the authorities ordered the construction of the
Opelwerk Brandenburg facilities in 1935, and through 1944 more than 130,000
Blitz trucks and chassis were produced.
From 1939, the Blitz 3.6 three-tonne version was used in large numbers by the
German armed forces (Wehrmacht) throughout World War II. Variants included an
elongated version and the four-wheel drive Blitz A. To cope with the bad road
conditions and the rasputitsa mud seasons on the Eastern Front, a half-tracked
Maultier ("mule") Sd.Kfz. 3 version was built using tracks and
suspension based on the British Universal Carrier. Among others, these were
used as service vehicles for the Messerschmitt Me 323 military transport
aircraft.
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