MiniArt’s 1/35th-scale L701 German 3-t Cargo truck.

We look at the CADs showing the features, art & the original trucks in our preview…

Preview: 1/35th Scale L701 German 3t Cargo truck from MiniArt.

L701 German 3t Cargotruck

From MiniArt

1/35th scale

Kit No#35450

Five marking choices included in the box. We look at the CADs showing the features, art & the original trucks are in our preview…

Preview: 1/35th scale L701 German 3t Cargo Truck from MiniArt.

L701 German 3t Cargo Truck
From MiniArt

1/35th scale

Kit No#35450

Five marking choices included in the box.

The Subject

The Mercedes-Benz type L 701 was manufactured under licence from the Opel Blitz 3,6-36 S. Daimler-Benz had to start producing this type in July 1944 when production of its own 3-ton lorry, the Mercedes-Benz type L3000S was halted in April 1944. The L 701 was a modified Opel Blitz with a driver’s cabin from the last year of World War II and without GM logos on the radiator grille. Approximately 3,500 exemplars were produced till the end of the conflict.

This truck was essentially an Opel Blitz, the “standard truck” of the German armed forces during WWII, which was created and constructed by GM subsidiary Opel with American management fully aware of its intended purpose. Mercedes began producing it under licence in 1944 in modest quantities, and then again after the war from June 1945 until 1949.

Mercedes were a vexed that it wasn’t their own design (their own truck of the same class was vastly inferior and significantly more expensive), which is why you could order a L 701 truck from your Mercedes-Benz dealership after the war and end up with a truck that said nothing about being an Opel made by Mercedes-Benz except in the owner’s manual.01001010A few views of a restroed L701 in the U.S. (You can rent this one apparently).01001010You will notice that this truck had a wooden cab instead of the sleeker, metal constructed Opel Blitz cabs. You will notice that this truck had a wooden cab instead of the sleeker, metal constructed Opel Blitz cabs.

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