{"id":6640,"date":"2019-07-04T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?page_id=6640"},"modified":"2019-12-08T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T03:09:06","slug":"bussing-nag-typ-300-neo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/bussing-nag-typ-300-neo\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00fcssing-NAG Typ 300 – Neo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1934 B\u00fcssing-NAG Typ 300<\/strong>\nNeo - NEO46446 M (resin)  <\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Published 07\/04\/19<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Formed by the union of DKW, Horch, Audi and Wanderer in 1932, Auto Union started racing soon after. With financing from the Nazi government, the manufacturer started a racing car project to compete in Grand Prix racing. Their first car, the Typ A<\/a>, was ready for the 1934 season. Since races would occur all over Europe, they needed a race car transporter. With that necessity, the Auto Union Renndienst<\/em> (\u201cAuto Union Racing Service\u201d) approached B\u00fcssing-NAG. Established in 1903, B\u00fcssing AG<\/a><\/em> was one of Germany\u2019s first bus and truck manufacturers. In 1923, B\u00fcssing introduced their first rigid three-axle chassis. It was a quite innovative design, and it allowed B\u00fcssing to lead the German market for commercial vehicles. In 1934, they acquired the Neue Automobil Gesellschaft<\/em> (NAG)<\/a>, and from then on became known as B\u00fcssing-NAG. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Auto Union did not let all that blank space go to waste…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Auto Union bought three Typ 300 chassis from B\u00fcssing-NAG and delivered them to Wagenfabrik Hermann Schumann<\/em>. At Schumann the chassis received a box compartment over the bed, integrated with the cabin. The engine was a 6 cylinder petrol unit with 3962 cm\u00b3 capable of 70 hp. With a maximum payload of 3210 kg, that comfortably allowed 60 km\/h on the Autobahn. On a full tank the truck<\/a> had a range of 480 km, which wasn\u2019t bad for European affairs. Though it\u2019s cargo capacity was pretty good, it only had room for one race car and spares. Consequently, the Renndienst always dispatched two or three<\/a> Typ 300 to each race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Neo lets you display the Typ 300 with the rear door closed or open.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Like most trucks in Germany, with World War II, consequently all the Typ 300 were confiscated for military or public use. With that, none of Auto Union\u2019s race car transporters survived the war. But in 1997 Audi purchased a Typ 300 that was mostly intact, and reformed it to \u201cRenndienst specs\u201d. Though the truck is not one of the originals, Audi only used original parts from the 1930\u2019s. It\u2019s currently on display at the August Horch Museum, in Zwickau, Germany. And it even has a mock-up of a Typ C Stromlinienwagen<\/a> on the bed…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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And you also get a loading ramp.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The Typ 300 carried all of Auto Union\u2019s Silberpfeile, from the race cars to the record cars. From 1934 to 1939, the Renndienst\u2019s trucks were at all European speed events where Auto Union raced<\/a>. So just like Mercedes\u2019 LO 2750<\/a>, it would be a great acquisition for my Silberpfeile collection. In 1:43rd the model was available by one or two obscure brands, but always very elusive to find. One of those models I surely I would LOVE to have, but doubted that I would… However, in 2018 Neo announced that they would make a version of it and earlier this year it was out. This is my first Neo, and I’m VERY happy with it. From the pics I’ve seen of the real truck it certainly looks perfect <\/strong>in scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Rear door open – unfortunately on mine one handle is missing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
It comes with a loading ramp, so you can load a car. And you can display it with the door up or down. You also get a small section of the door to put on top of the frame, as if the door was rolled in.  BUT, not all is roses. The “open door” on mine came with one of the handles missing. And a section of the front suspension came broken off (easy-peasy fix, though).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the 30’s, wherever there was a big race in Europe, these two trucks were always there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
So, it’s a fantastic model with a couple of issues. However, these small issues are really not enough to be a problem. And even more importantly, this was a birthday gift from my adorable wife. Just like the  LO 2750. Yep, I really <\/strong>love her \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1934 B\u00fcssing-NAG Typ 300 Neo – NEO46446 M (resin)  Published 07\/04\/19 Formed by the union of DKW, Horch, Audi and Wanderer in 1932, Auto Union started racing soon after. With financing from the Nazi government, the manufacturer started a racing car project to compete in Grand Prix racing. Their first car, the Typ A, was … Continue reading “B\u00fcssing-NAG Typ 300 – Neo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6640","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8055,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6640\/revisions\/8055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}