| Volkswagen Type 166 'Schwimmwagen' |
 | | Manufacturer | Volkswagen | | Production | 15,000 (1942-1944) | | Engine(s) | 4-cyl. boxer, air cooled
1,131 cm3, 25 hp @ 3,000 rpm | | Transmission(s) | 4-speed manual
2-speed transfer case;
4WD only on 1st gear / reverse | | Wheelbase | 200 cm | | Length | 382,5 cm | | Width | 148 cm | | Height | 161,5 cm | | Curb weight | 910 kg (1,345 kg GVW) | | Fuel capacity | 50 l | | Related | VW type 86 & 87 | The VW Type 128 and 166 Schwimmwagen (Floating / Swimming Car) were amphibious all-wheel-drive off-roaders, used extensively by the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS during the Second World War.
The Type 166 is the most mass-produced amphibious car in history, arguably the most capable light military wheeled off-roader in World War II. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 611 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (800 × 785 pixel, file size: 199 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Beschreibung: VW Schwimmwagen / Armeemuseum Dresden File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are...
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Volkswagen Kübelwagen VW Kübelwagen rear The Volkswagen Kübelwagen (bucket/tub car) was a military vehicle designed by Ferdinand Porsche and built by Volkswagen during World War II for use by the German military (both Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS). ...
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Development
Volkswagen Schwimmwagens were mechanically based on the chassis' of the Type 86 four-wheel drive prototype of the Kübelwagen / Type 87 four-wheel drive 'Kübel/Beetle' Command Car, which in turn were based on the platform of the civilian Volkswagen Beetle. However, Erwin Komenda, Ferdinand Porsche's first car body designer, was forced to develop an all new unitized bodytub structure, since the utterly flat floorpan chassis of the existing VW vehicles was totally unsuited to smooth movement through water. Komenda patented his ideas for the swimming car at the German Patent office. The Jeep Wrangler is a 4WD vehicle with a transfer case to select low range or high range 4WD. The Lamborghini Murciélago is a 4WD/AWD that powers the front via a viscous coupling unit if the rear slips. ...
A 1951 VW Kübelwagen (LIM 111). ...
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Erwin Komenda (April 6, 1904 - August 22, 1966) was the designer of the bodies for the VW Beetle and various Porsche sports cars. ...
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The earliest Type 128 prototype was based on the full-length Kübelwagen chassis with a 240cm (7.9 ft) wheelbase. Pre-production units of the 128, fitted with custom welded bodytubs, demonstrated that this construction was too weak for tough off-roading, had insufficient torsional rigidity, and easily suffered hull-ruptures at the front cross-member, as well as in the wheel-wells. This was obviously unacceptable for an amphibious vehicle. The large-scale production models (Type 166) were therefore made smaller, and had a wheel-base of only 200cm (6.6 ft). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
VW Schwimmwagens were both produced by the Volkswagen factory at Fallersleben / Wolfsburg, as well as by Porsche's facilities in Stuttgart; with the bodies (or rather hulls) produced by Ambi Budd in Berlin. From 1941 through 1944 a total of 15,584 Type 166 Schwimmwagen cars were produced; 14,276 at Fallersleben and 1,308 by Porsche. Only 133 are known to remain today, and only 13 have survived without restoration work.[1] Given these numbers, the VW 166 is the most mass-produced amphibious car in history. Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...
Ambi Budd was a company founded by Edward Gowen Budd (born 28 December 1870 in Smyrna/Delaware, died 20 November 1946 in Pennsylvania) in Philadelphia, USA. Budd studied at the University of Pennsylvania and his first work was at a company making automobile wheels from pressed steel raster then casting. ...
Technology All Schwimmwagen were four wheel drive only on first gear (and reverse gears with some models) and had ZF self-locking differentials on both front and rear axles. Just like the Kübelwagen, this heavy-duty 4x4 off-roader had portal gear rear hubs that gave better ground clearance, while at the same time reducing drive-line torque stresses with their gear reduction at the wheels. Four wheel drive or 4x4, is a type of four wheeled vehicle drivetrain configuration that enables all four wheels to receive power from the engine simultaneously in order to provide maximum traction. ...
A sketch of a portal axle Portal gears is a technology where the axle tube is above the centre of the wheel hub. ...
When crossing water a screw propeller could be lowered down from the rear deck engine cover. When in place a simple coupling provided drive straight from an extension of the engines crankshaft. This meant that screw propulsion was only available going forward. For reversing in the water there was the choice of using the standard equipment paddle or running the land drive in reverse, allowing the wheel-rotation to take you back ever so slowly. The front wheels doubled up as rudders, so steering was done with the steering wheel both on land and on water.
Images VW Schwimmwagen Image File history File links Beschreibung: VW Schwimmwagen Fotograf: Darkone, 2. ...
| Interior Image File history File links Beschreibung: VW Schwimmwagen / Innenraum / Interior Fotograf: Darkone, 2. ...
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| Propeller Image File history File links Download high resolution version (534x640, 125 KB) Beschreibung: VW Schwimmwagen / Schraube / propeller Fotograf: Darkone, 2. ...
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Literature René Pohl: Mit dem Auto baden gehen. HEEL Verlag, Gut-Pottscheidt Konigswinter 1998, ISBN 3-89365-702-9
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