[NeilBlanchard]

Hi,

I'm finding some more information on the Schlörwagen; including that the Cd of a prototype was even lower: 0.113. The actual car might be 0.186, which is still excellent. Here's the Google translation of this page:

Here is the text of the press release:

Dr. Ing Karl Schlör in 1936 by Krauss-Maffei in Munich, to the Aerodynamic testing Institute Göttingen e. V. (AVA). This was the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut Göttingen under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ludwig Prandtl (1875-1953) assumed.

There has already been by Dipl.-Ing. A. Lange on a stream-line model researched and drawn. This design was around the Jaray form with the rear of spillage, in an improved presentation. In the model, wind tunnel the Institute has been a fabulous CW-measured value of 0.14, but with coverage of all 4 wheels. At this time, without the project to an end have led to Ing A. Lange retired from his professional work out. Dr. Ing Karl Schlör took his place. With his collaborator Hans Becker did not want to continue the work of Ing Schlör Lange, but opted for a Einvolumen-body. The basic form showed a wing section.

Model wind-tunnel measurements were supposedly one of CW-value 0.113.

The leaders found this result so much that decided the car was built. As chassis was a modified Mercedes Chassis 170h read by Charles Schlör. The wind tunnel model was on IAA 1938 issued in Berlin. A year later, the visitors saw the finished vehicles, which in the meantime, at the Lewis brothers in Food was karossiert. The vehicle is brought in a wind tunnel of the AVA a CW-value of 0,186 - an absolute sensation.

What helped this was covered, enclosed ground and the windows which, with the Aluaußenhaut were flush. In spite of the aluminum body of the Car around 250 kg heavier than the standard sedan. Schlor the car, as he called from now on, with a wheelbase of 2.60 m, 4.33 m in length and a height of only 1.48 m at its highest point. In the latitude he suggested with 2.10 m probably all that time there was on the streets.

The top speed was in the series-Mercedes about 105 km / h, when Schlörwagen 134-136 km / h. When consumption was 10-12 liters per 100 km and only 8 liters in favor of the aerodynamic vehicle identified. After the tests were complete, the car was placed in a corner and placed a cloth over it, because the Motor Transport Research Institute wartime has been abandoned.

Schlör also had to complete his military service, but his professional skills accordingly. He was with his friend and Staff Hans Becker sent to Riga. When the Mercedes truck plant quartered been together through her propeller sled parts of prey - built. So once at the beginning of this action, a 5-cylinder M11 was Radial engine with a capacity of approximately 130 hp, a Russian construction claimed as booty part.

Suggest someone suggested, you could order the mothballed Schlör car assemble and test, deploy and perhaps even in Russia. And said done, the engine was transported by train to Göttingen. The Schlör entmottet car was the Mercedes engine and disassembled to the Russian engine propeller mounted at the rear. The results were excellent.

This test car was propeller driven by various debates not used in Russia, but arrived after the Finnish Rovaniemi - As a propeller-pressure test. How and when the car Schlör back came to Germany is not known.

After the war, Dr. Ing Karl Schlör went to the Bavarian State Ministry for Transport in Munich. Here he was responsible for the car Tire industry and imports of the Allies. The British occupiers had the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, and thus the AVA dissolved. Today, the German Research Institute for Air-called Aerospace eV. Schlör The car was confiscated and never again issued.

Allegedly, he was brought to England. There, he may still stands today. After many projects on his own behalf and for the German automotive industry, Dr. Charles Schlör died in 1997.


MfG Jörg