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Title: Opel blitz
Post by: getagrip on 20 March 2015, 07:03:15 PM
Hi all.

On some Opel Blitz models and photos there's a plate sized triangle on top of the cab; anyone know what it is and what it did?

Cheers :)
Title: Re: Opel blitz
Post by: NTM on 20 March 2015, 07:12:49 PM
It was to signify if the vehicle was towing or not. If up there was something on tow or so I read on another forum once.
Title: Re: Opel blitz
Post by: getagrip on 20 March 2015, 07:15:37 PM
Thanks NTM. :)

That's just odd.  What purpose would that serve and to who?
Title: Re: Opel blitz
Post by: paulr on 20 March 2015, 10:45:44 PM
Quote from: getagrip on 20 March 2015, 07:15:37 PM
Thanks NTM. :)

That's just odd.  What purpose would that serve and to who?

Military police on traffic control perhaps, engineers loading onto ferries, ...

Another example of the huns ruthless efficiency  ;) ;D
Title: Re: Opel blitz
Post by: Ithoriel on 21 March 2015, 02:02:26 AM
I was told that it was indeed used to signal if the truck was towing or not, by the father of a girlfriend at uni. He'd been an artillery officer during the war and said it had been a legal requirement from about 1930 to 1950. He couldn't remember exact dates.

Of course, I was some foreign oik, dating his only daughter so entirely possible I was having my leg pulled but I don't think so.
Title: Re: Opel blitz
Post by: getagrip on 21 March 2015, 06:42:26 AM
Thanks guys,  great info  :)