Goliath Atlas

{{short description|German truck}} {{Multiple issues|{{more citations needed|date=February 2019}}{{more footnotes|date=February 2019}}}}

{{Infobox automobile | name = Goliath Atlas | image = File:1934GoliathAtlas.jpg | caption = 1934 Goliath Atlas | manufacturer = Hansa-Lloyd and Goliath-Werke Borgward & Tecklenburg | aka = Hansa-Lloyd Atlas | production = Goliath Company, Bremen, Germany | model_years = 1932–1935 | assembly = | designer = | class = | body_style = | layout = MR layout | platform = | related = | engine = 2 cylinder two-stroke engine Power 14 HP | transmission = 3-speed gear-box | propulsion = | wheelbase = {{convert|90.95|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} <ref> https://www.oudemercedesbrochures.nl/DeutscheAutotypenBuch_1934de.html Page 99|date=April 2025</ref> | length = {{convert|147.64|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | width = {{convert|57.09|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | height = {{convert|66.93|in|mm|0|abbr=on|order=flip}} | weight = {{convert|1|MT|lb|0|abbr=on}} | predecessor = 1929 Goliath Express<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8mBVAAAAYAAJ|title=ATZ, Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift|date=24 February 1962|publisher=Franck.|via=Google Books}}</ref> | successor = Goliath Rekord | sp = DE }}

The '''Goliath Atlas''' also sold as '''Hansa-Lloyd Atlas'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ebay.de/itm/FAUN-GRAF-STIFT-HANOMAG-GOLIATH-HANSA-LLOYD-OMNIBUS-A3-Typentafel-1934-10/371089859996|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323080740/https://www.ebay.de/itm/FAUN-GRAF-STIFT-HANOMAG-GOLIATH-HANSA-LLOYD-OMNIBUS-A3-Typentafel-1934-10/371089859996|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-03-23|title=FAUN GRÄF & STIFT HANOMAG GOLIATH HANSA-LLOYD OMNIBUS A3 Typentafel 1934 10 {{!}} eBay|date=2019-03-23|access-date=2019-03-26}}</ref> is an cab over truck that was produced from 1932 to 1935 in Bremen, Germany. It was not the first, but an early one ton freight trucks of the German Goliath Company and it got a closed driver cab. The engine had a displacement of 594 cc with a bore of 69 mm and a stroke of 80 mm. The engine produced 14 hp at 2500 revolutions per minute. Its top speed was {{convert|40|mph|km/h|abbr=on|order=flip}}. The front track was 1310 mm, the rear track was 1275 mm. The wheelbase was 2310 mm. The vehicle had a turning circle of 12,000 mm. It was an improvement of the '''1929 Goliath Express''', transporting {{convert|0.8|MT|ST}} and up to {{convert|31|mph|km/h|abbr=on|order=flip}}, and its predecessor '''1926 Goliath K1''', transporting {{convert|0.5|MT|ST}}, both with open cab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fachliteraturversand.de/webshop/AUTOMOBILIA/Goliath/Borgward-Goliath-K1-Lieferwagen-Prospekt-1929::27080.html|title=Borgward Goliath K1 Lieferwagen Prospekt 1929 - Fachliteraturversand An- u. Verkauf Werkstatthandbuch Reparaturhandbuch Reparaturanleitung Betriebsanleitung Ersatzteilliste Fiat Same Deutz Fahr Ferguson Eicher VW Audi Honda IHC Mc Cormick|website=www.fachliteraturversand.de|access-date=2019-03-09|archive-date=2019-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190310073546/https://www.fachliteraturversand.de/webshop/AUTOMOBILIA/Goliath/Borgward-Goliath-K1-Lieferwagen-Prospekt-1929::27080.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

As later microcars like the Isetta or the Zündapp Janus, it had a front door only, to enter the cab. A fixed steering column and a door hinge on the left, required the passenger to exit first.

Original cost were: 2450 Reichsmark.

== Competitors == * Magirus M10<ref>{{Cite web| title=Kellerkinder | url=http://www.verlagrabe.de/artikel/pdf/Hik_04_3_Kellerkinder.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018222207/http://www.verlagrabe.de/artikel/pdf/Hik_04_3_Kellerkinder.pdf | archive-date=2014-10-18}}</ref>

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== External links == * [https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/cars/item/goliath-atlas-1934 A 1934 Goliath Atlas at the Lanemuseum Nashville, TN]

Atlas Category:Rear-wheel-drive vehicles Category:Vehicles introduced in 1932