Sunday Porsche Blogging: Porsche Type Numbers - Part 1, Type 7 through Type 114

This weeks Sunday Porsche Blogging subject is the Porsche numbering system for projects. Forget the part numbers, those are akin to a Dewey Decimal System for German engineers. This is the first of several lists of project numbers that will detail the surviving project numbers and what they involved. The numbering system for projects was a sequential chronological numbering system. The initial displayed project is seven because the first six never made it past the drawing boards.



Type 7
1930/31
Wanderer 1.86 liter chassis (1st design by Porsche office)

Type 8
1930/31
Wanderer 3.25 liter chassis

Type 9
1930/31
Supercharged version of type 8

Type 22
1932/37
Auto Union GP car

Type 52
1934
Auto Union sports car design

Type 60
1934/41
Kdf small car, later became the Volkswagen Beetle

Type 60K10
1939
Kdf sports coupe for Berlin to Rome Race

Type 62
1936
Kdf cross country, with open-sided body

Type 64
1937/38
Sports car, 1.5 liter, based on Kdf components

Type 66
1938
Kdf right-hand drive

Type 67
1939
Kdf listed as an "invalid vehicle"

Type 68
1939
Kdf panel van

Type 80
1938/39
Mercedes-Benz land speed record car

Type 82
1939/40
Kdf based Kubelwagen

Type 87
1939/41
Kubelwagen with 4-wheel drive

Type 100
1939/41
Tank prototype

Type 101
1942
Carrier for 88 mm gun with an electric transmission

Type 102
1942
Type 101 with hydraulic transmission

Type 108
1938
2-stage supercharger for Mercedes Benz

Type 110
1938/39
Small tractor, Volkspflug

Type 111
1939/40
Small tractor, new design

Type 112
1940/41
Larger-engined small tractor

Type 113
1941
Small tractor, third version

Type 114
1938/39
F. Wagen, a 1.5 liter sports car design

Source: Porsche Excellence Was Expected - The Complete Story of the Sports and Racing Cars
Karl Ludvigsen
1st Edition, 1977 pg. 517
2nd Edition, 2003 pg. 1484
The Ludvigsen work is an ongoing labor of love and a must read for any serious student of Porsche history.