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Dan Sharp
There appears to be an annular duct from around the radiator edge that feeds the fan, ie its for cooling on the ground.Regarding this cutaway (which you also find on pages 94-95 in more detail) - any idea what function the inclined pipe had in the area of the radiator? It looks like a fan in a tube and could have supported the cooling when stationary or when rolling on the ground; there seems to be a lockable flap at the front of the tube. But why inclined? The description reads "Kühlerstirnfläche nach Abzug der Wasserkammern 1,4 m2" which can be translated as "Radiator frontal area after deduction of the water chambers 1.4 square meters". Is there any information on this in the original construction description?
There appears to be an annular duct from around the radiator edge that feeds the fan, ie its for cooling on the ground.