Emil Sohn´s Air Flivver / Propellerwagen, ca. 1931

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this car?

[grobmotorix]

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[Kytsyk]

I suppose that it is propeller-driven car project by german engineer Emil Sohn (1931)

[grobmotorix]

Very, very good!

I´m deeply impressed!

This is a very well earned point for you.

[grobmotorix]

And here is everything I´ve collected.

The english speaking press always calls it "Air Flivver".

Does anybody know more or does anybody know of german sources???

I´m really interested in this strange car.

[grobmotorix]

If it is O.K. for the other members I´d like to keep it in an unsolved status to get some more information...?

What I found out about Emil Sohn is the fact, that in 1909 he has constructed planes and wrote a book about it in 1916:

[Paul Jaray]

Nice find...I missed this puzzle!
Grob, if you already gave Kytsyk his point, it can be moved now. 

[DHoffmann]

Another image.

"Two German inventors have made what they call an aeromobile which is an auto driven by an air propeller. The air screw is not installed vertically, however, but lies horizontally on the back part of the chassis. Above it are several parallel plane surfaces forming a sort of lattice-work arrangment, the angles of which can be altered. The air stream produced by the propeller breaks through these surfaces, providing the driving power. When the surfaces are perpendicular the car stops, when they lean back, it moves forward, and when they are pushed forward, the car moves backward."

[grobmotorix]