More About the 1939 Hanomag 1.3 Liter

Germans like to compress their often long words into simpler, easier to pronounce words.  So the firm Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG -- Hanover Machinebuilder, Incorporated -- was shortened to Hanomag.   Among many other things, Hanomag built cars in the 1920s and 30s.

I think the most interesting Hanomag car was the 1.3 Liter produced for model year 1939 only (World War 2 halted production).  I posted about it here.  Since 2013, more Hanomag photos have appeared on the Internet.  Not many, because few Hanomags exist; but enough to justify a short post.

About the only backgound information on the Hanomag 1.3 Liter is here, on the Lane Motor Museum website.  (When its featured car was noted years earlier on the BaT Auctions site, it was stated that this car lacked a motor.)

Most photos below are from original sources I cannot identify.

Gallery

Side view: Hanomags were not large, but could carry four people.   Plenty of curves give the design a strong streamlined feeling: very 1930s.

This image from the Hanomag brochure grossly exaggerates the car's size.  At least it indicates what goes where.

A simple, functional grille.  More interesting is the vertical chrome bar that transitions into central hood sculpting that ...

... continues as a ridge that passes over the roof, continuing downwards towards the bottom of the the trunk lid while splitting the backlight window's profile.  For some reason, I almost always like that sort of styling touch.

Factory overhead photo.  Some Hanomags had sunroofs.

Probably a publicity photo showing a family and its Hanomag at Heidelberg.  The Neckar River is in the background, but the castle those folks are probably viewing is above the picture frame.