From 1949 to 1962, DKW produced a van with a trailing-arm rear suspension system which incorporated springs in the cross bar assembly. Dampf Kraft Wagen (steam-driven car or DKW is a historic car and Motorcycle Marque. A van is a kind of vehicle used for Transporting goods or groups of people For Front-wheel drive cars, rear suspension has few constraints and a variety of Beam axles and Independent suspensions are used A spring is a flexible elastic object used to store mechanical Energy. It had a very modern layout with a front engine and front-wheel drive, but the engine was terribly weak. Front-wheel drive (or FF layout) is a form of engine / transmission layout used in Motor vehicles where the engine drives the front Wheels First the van used the prewar engine of the F8 with two cylinders, 700 cc and 20 hp (22 hp after 1952). This was definitely not enough when the van was fully charged. Things went (a little) better in 1955 when the van received the three cylinder unit with 900 cc, producing 32 hp.
Thanks to its layout the van had a low floor configuration, with the load areas about 40 cm from the ground. A centimetre ( American spelling: centimeter, symbol cm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to one hundredth It was also fitted with a large single rear door fitted to hinges on the right-hand side. A hinge is a type of bearing that connects two solid objects typically allowing only a limited angle of Rotation between them
The van was also produced in Vitoria, Spain, by Industrias del Motor S. A. (IMOSA) since 1954. DKW (pronounced "de-ca-uve") became a common term for any van, and is still used today. The Spanish subsidiary also produced a modern successor, introduced in 1963 and called DKW F 1000 L. This van started with the three cylinder 1000 cc engine, but later received a Mercedes-Benz Diesel engine and finally was renamed a Mercedes-Benz in 1975. Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of luxury Automobiles Buses coaches and Trucks It is currently a division of the A diesel engine is an Internal combustion engine which operates using the Diesel cycle (named after Dr
