Presto on the roof of the Chemnitz Presto (later Auto Union) factory

[grobmotorix]

1 point: which make?
1 additional point: what´s the story of the buildings after this company was merged?

[grobmotorix]

The expertise, please...

[Aaron65]

Is it Austrian???

[grobmotorix]

Not austrian.

[mymokke]

USA?

[grobmotorix]

Not american though it looks very much alike.

[Aaron65]

Is it German?

[grobmotorix]

Definitly yes.

[Aaron65]

Is it from one of the better known makes?

[grobmotorix]

No, but the company that has bought the buildings is very well known.

[grobmotorix]

There´s a current puzzle that features the same make.

[Aaron65]

Did Volkswagen buy the buildings?

[grobmotorix]

No. Volkswagen in Wolfsburg has been built from scratch and has been the biggest car factory in the world for decades.

[Aaron65]

How about Daimler-Benz? 

[grobmotorix]

No.

[Tom_I]

I keep meaning to compile a list of cars with pointed radiators, but somehow I never get round to it.

But I think this car is a Presto. I'm not sure which one, but it could be the Luxus model from about 1912 or 1913.

It's standing on the roof of the Presto-Werke in Chemnitz, Saxony. Presto began by making bicycles, then built small numbers of Delahayes under licence, before producing their own designs. Financial problems in the 1920s led to various mergers, and they were taken over in 1927 by the NAG group (Nationale Automobil-Gesellschaft), based in Berlin.

The Chemnitz factory was sold to Auto-Union in about 1934. It was badly damaged during WW2, and Auto-Union production was eventually relocated to Ingolstadt in Bavaria.

[grobmotorix]

And this is what I´d call a perfect answer!

I do not know the exact model myself.

But I did not ask for the model, just for the company and what happened to its buildings.

2 points!

I keep meaning to compile a list of cars with pointed radiators, but somehow I never get round to it. Embarrassed

This "Spitzkühler" (pointed radiator) theme is just endless - good luck with it...

[Tom_I]

I spent a long time getting nowhere with this, but I guess I was just lucky in the end - I couldn't find the puzzle picture, but found the small photo on the left below. This is the Presto factory in 1910. It was obviously extended quite a bit before the puzzle drawing was made, but despite the different viewpoint, from the general features and arrangement of windows, etc., it was recognisably the same building.





I really should get out more.....

[DynaMike]

Similar but slightly different design in the current (December) issue of the Spanish oldtimer magazine 'Motor Clásico':