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[duby]

hi

i read in this link - http://www.grandprix....org/auto_c.htm about the tests that the auto-union team did .

i have a few questions -
1) where this German Institute for Aerodynamics was based ?
2) is there any more info & pics from those tests ?
3) what about Mercedes , did they do it as well or that they had their own windtunnel ?

thanks for all the great help that i get here

duby

[venator]

I believe they used the facility at Goettingen.

[Holger Merten]

1. The DVL was located in Berlin (Adlershof).
2. There are results and pictures about those tests. (what are you interested in?)
3. MB used the same windtunnels in Berlin and Friedrichshafen (Zeppelin) than AU.

I know, that AU prepared some tests with scale models in Zwickau, therefore I believe MB did the same in Stuttgart.

Edited by Holger Merten, 02 August 2009 - 01:50.

[duby]

1. The DVL was located in Berlin (Adlershof).
2. There are results and pictures about those tests. (what are you interested in?)
3. MB used the same windtunnels in Berlin and Friedrichshafen (Zeppelin) than AU.

I know, that AU prepared some tests with scale models in Zwickau, therefore I believe MB did the same in Stuttgart.

thanks

i am looking for pics and may be press-releasses from the tests of the b&c types Auto-union and the w25, 125, 156, 163 of the Mercedes .


duby

[dretceterini]

thanks

i am looking for pics and may be press-releasses from the tests of the b&c types Auto-union and the w25, 125, 156, 163 of the Mercedes .


duby

My father was a panel beater for the pre-war Mercedes GP team, but had to get out of Germany in a hurry, as he was Jewish. Unfortunately, he didn't retain any photos, nor talk much about working for Mercedes. He passed away in 1980

[Holger Merten]

I could support you with several pictures of windtunnel tests of the Auto Unions, do you need them for private use? Or do you want to publish them anywhere?

Edited by Holger Merten, 03 August 2009 - 08:33.

[Hugo Boecker]

There was also windtunnel testing of the fronts of Mercedes and Auto Union at the Süddeutsche Kühlerfabrik Julius Behr at Stuttgart Feuerbach. This windtunnel was in use from 1937 to 1972.

Edited by Hugo Boecker, 03 August 2009 - 14:40.

[Holger Merten]

These were no windtunnel tests, but tests to check the radiator cooling.

Edited by Holger Merten, 04 August 2009 - 11:03.