I have a feeling that this may be a Lehner from Russia, though I am not sure
Otav?
Italian?
I have a 15-name list, so is this a 6-letter name?
I'd be rather surprised, but let's hear it from Arunas :)
... then Csonka.
Thank You, PJ!
pnegyesi, what do You mean, by saying "fake"?
Here is a couple of ??? cars. Hungarian as I have them.
For many decades, from the 1950s, the Haris Brothers, Lajos and Otto were the only "experts" on the history of the Hungarian auto industry. They have slightly abused what they have gathered together and added new models, new companies. Fake photos, scale models on never-built cars - they could do everything, because there was no one who would check.Hmmm... why would someone do that?
Several other obscure names: Banki-Csonka, Padvinecz-Heilser and Nandor Hora. Do they say anything? :)
Haris brothers had to do it. It was thought that during the 2nd World War all correspondence, photos and documents were lots related to the Hungarian auto industry.
When István Zsuppán, the Haris brothers and Ferenc Váradi started collecting materials in the 1950s it soon became evident that there are gaping holes in the history. But the Haris brothers wanted international fame and for that they had to have complete stories so they filled out the gaps by making up stories...
I don't want to go into too much details, but there were monetary rewards as well. Arunas mentioned Nándor Hóra, who was a bicycle racer and later a repairman. He also built a few motorized quadricycles in the very early 1900s. Hóra was lucky enough to survive the 2nd World War. Both István Zsuppán and the Haris brothers visited him and took over some of his archive documents. A few years later the Haris brothers "found" a Hora automobile, a car which never existed.
I am a bit emotional on this as a librarian and an avid researcher of this topic for 17 years now, I am fighting an uphill battle to clean up the history of the Hungarian auto industry.
Please don't ask me about the Hungarian Museum of Transport and their role. That'd bring you another tirade :-X
Please don't ask me about the Hungarian Museum of Transport and their role. That'd bring you another tirade :-X
As i remember there were even fake persons in the hungarian automobile history. Just like the collective farm peasant Francois Szisz... :) (But he was not the Haris brothers creature.) :)
Yes, I live fairly near.Several other obscure names: Banki-Csonka, Padvinecz-Heilser and Nandor Hora. Do they say anything? :)
Dónát Bánki and János Csonka "invented" the spray carburetor in 1893, but I am beginning to have doubts about them being first on this field. BTW is anyone living near London?
Podvinecz and Heisler was the predecessor of MÁG, which built cars like the Magotax, Magomobil, Magosix and Magosupersix. P&H built a few cars between 1905-1912.