GAZ-AA explained

GAZ-AA
Manufacturer:GAZ
Production:1932–1938
Class:Truck
Related:GAZ-A
GAZ-AAA
Layout:FR layout
Transmission:4-speed manual
Wheelbase:34401NaN1
Length:53351NaN1
Width:20401NaN1
Height:19701NaN1
Weight:18100NaN0
Successor:GAZ-MM
Predecessor:Ford Model AA

The GAZ-AA is a truck produced at the Gorki Auto Plant in the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1938, and was the factory's first truck produced under the GAZ brand. Russian-speakers often refer to it as a polutorka ( ru | полуторка) - meaning "one-and-a halfer", with reference to its carrying capacity of 1.5 tonnes (1500 kilograms).

History

On 31 May 1929 the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy of the Soviet Union (Russian: Высший совет народного хозяйства СССР) made an agreement with the Ford Motor Company to produce Ford Model A and Model AA vehicles, and the Soviet Metallostroy organisation[1] (Russian: Металлострой) started constructing an American-designed automotive plant in Nijni-Novgorod.

Initially, 10 Ford Model AA trucks were built at the plant,[2] [3] under the name NAZ (for Nijni Novgorod Avtomobilni Zavod). Soviet engineers prepared their own mechanical blueprints for production, specifying a truck to be made with thicker steel and to have an upgraded suspension system. In 1932 the city of Nizhni Novgorod adopted its new name, Gorki - after Maxim Gorki (1868-1936) - and in 1933 the plant was renamed to Gorki Automobilni Zavod, and the trucks began to use the model designation GAZ-AA. By 1932 mass-production had started, with around 60 trucks were built at the plant daily from knock-down kits sent by Ford.[4]

Soon assembly started of GAZ-A passenger vehicles,[5] which were based on the Ford Model A and were also built from knock-down kits imported into the Soviet Union. By that time GAZ-AA trucks comprised the majority of trucks used by the Red Army.[4] Several modifications of the GAZ-AA trucks started getting produced, including dump trucks (410),[6] semi-trucks (MS), fire trucks (PMG-1)[7] and tractors (905).[8]

By 1938, nearly 1 million of these trucks had been produced and sold. By that time a modernized variant of the GAZ-AA trucks, under the GAZ-MM index entered production, with the engine from the GAZ-M1, that boosted the vehicle's power to 50 hp, with the compression ratio increased to 4.6, giving a maximum speed of 80 km / h.[9] [10]

Variants

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Austin . Richard Cartwright . Richard Cartwright Austin . 2004 . Moral Imagination in Industrial Culture . Building Utopia: Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930 . Kent, Ohio . Kent State University Press . 24 . 9780873387309 . 26 June 2023 . [...] 'Metallostroy,' the Soviet organization that hired and supervised construction labor [...].
  2. Web site: Zis lorry. "One and a half" GAZ-AA . 21 August 2021.
  3. Web site: First Soviet Ford AA truck leaving Assembly Plant No. 1 "Gudok Oktyabrya" in Nizhni Novgorod . 21 August 2021.
  4. Web site: ОАО "ГАЗ"/Горьковский автомобильный завод (ГАЗ)/ ГАЗ-АА . 21 August 2021.
  5. Web site: JSC "GAZ" / Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ) /GAZ-A . 21 August 2021.
  6. Web site: Опрокидка малой механизации Самосвал ГАЗ-С1/ -410 . 21 August 2021.
  7. Web site: Пожарный автомобиль ПМГ-1: история, устройство и ТТХ Источник . 21 August 2021.
  8. Web site: ОАО "ГАЗ" (Горьковский автомобильный завод) ГАЗ-905 . 21 August 2021.
  9. Web site: ОАО "ГАЗ"/Горьковский автомобильный завод (ГАЗ)/ ГАЗ-ММ . 21 August 2021.
  10. Web site: ГАЗ-ММ: машина жизни . 21 August 2021.

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