Atlas Editions – IFA S4001-1 SW7 cisternový automobil – tanker truck MINOL

Description

- sběratelský model nákladního automobilu IFA  1/43 
- provedení: kovový model s plastovými částmi 
- model je v kvalitním provedení

                      IFA W 50

The IFA W 50 is a medium-duty truck built by the East German IFA conglomerate at their Ludwigsfelde plant from 1965 until 1990. A total of about 572,000 were built in Ludwigsfelde, with an unknown additional number of special-use vehicles assembled at other plants. It was meant to be succeeded by the IFA L 60 but outlived it by several months. IFA ended all truck production on 17 December 1990,following the reunification of Germany.

Originally called the S4500, the name changed to W 45 in 1959 („W“ for „Werdau“). The first prototype (W 45LF) was operational in June 1962, with the four-wheel drive W 45LAF following shortly thereafter.It was expected to enter production in the last quarter of 1964, but then the requirements were increased to 5 tonnes (11,000 lb) and the design was renamed the „W 50 – W stands for „Werdau“ and 50 represents „five tonnes“. However, on 21 December 1962 the Ministerrat der DDR decided that the VEB Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde (IWL) would build the W 50 instead of Werdau. One of the reasons for this decision was the cancellation of Dresden 152 airliner production in February 1961, which had caused the end of Pirna 014 jet engine production at Ludwigsfelde (see above).