Mercedes-Benz G 3a

The Mercedes-Benz G 3a was a light three-axle military cross-country truck built with various bodies from 1929, with more than 2,000 produced. The Wehrmacht classed it as Kfz. 61 to 64. It came out of the Reichswehr's planning of the late 1920s, which asked German truck makers for a light three-axle truck with a payload of 1,500 kilograms, high ground clearance and driven rear axles. After a small run of the first design, the G 3, in 1928 and 1929, series production of the improved G 3a began in 1929. The article gives 1935 as the end of that production in its summary and 1938 in its development section. It had a U-profile ladder frame, rigid axles, hydraulic brakes on all six wheels and a water-cooled six-cylinder M 09 petrol engine with two carburettors. It served as an open flatbed and as a communications, survey and radio vehicle.