Silent witness to Netaji’s Great Escape: German Wanderer sedan
2 min read Image Source : PTI Silent witness to Netaji’s Great Escape: German Wanderer sedan
As the nation is busy celebrating one hundred and twenty fifth start anniversary of India’s freedom legend Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose with a lot fanfare, an iconic German Wanderer sedan of 1937 stands silent witness at Bose’s Kolkata Elgin Road ancestral house from the place he had made a “great escape” to Jharkhand’s Gomoh railway station in 1941 to lastly attain Germany.
With the initiative of Netaji Research Bureau, the automotive was restored to its 1941 look by vehicle large Audi.
In 2017, former President late Pranab Mukherjee had unveiled the long-lasting German Wanderer sedan which Netaji had used to engineer the well-known ‘Great Escape’ from his Elgin Road residence.
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Netaji had managed to dodge the British intelligence and cops who had been then protecting a detailed watch on him beneath home arrest.
He had escaped on the rear seat of the automotive disguised as Mohammad Ziauddin, within the intermediating evening of January 16 and 17 in 1941. According to stories, nephew Sisir Kumar Bose was on the steering wheel throughout Netaji’s Great Escapee from Kolkata.
The 1937 Wanderer W24 has a 1767cc, 4-cylinder engine that produces 42hp at 3500rpm which may take it as much as a prime velocity of 108kmph. The engine was mated to a four-speed handbook transmission. Auto Union had manufactured solely 22,500 models of the Wanderer W24, stories stated.
The automotive got here with a wheelbase of 2600mm, with a size of 4280mm, width of 1645mm and peak of 1600mm. It has a floor clearance of 200mm and a gasoline capability of 40-litres.
According to data obtainable, Netaji was stated to be the primary Indian to personal an Audi automobile within the nation.
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