Solved - MJW #079 - Adler Diplomat Autenrieth 1939

[woodinsight]

Make, year and coachbuilder for a point please

[woodinsight]

This should be easy for an expert

[Aaron65]

It looks a lot like a Tatra T87 with encolsed front wheels...is it based on a Tatra? 

[woodinsight]

Sorry - not Tatra

[Carnut]

Is this a BMW?
By Kamm and von Fachsenfeld perhaps?

[woodinsight]

Sorry Carnut, not BMW.
German yes but the designer is not Kamm or von Fachsenfeld.
Stick with Germany and you are on the right trail.

[Maxmotor]

1939 Adler Diplomat with Autenrieth body

[woodinsight]

That's the car!
Well done Maxmotor - another point for you.

[Allemano]

I guess woodinsight's pic is a little compressed.
A few more period pics:
(3rd photo shows it in the winter on the Autobahn Darmstadt-Frankfurt. Not much traffic, back then!)

[woodinsight]

Thanks Allemano - your photos give a much truer idea of this interesting car

[grobmotorix]

One of my books says it may have been the personal car of Direktor Erwin Kleyer, COE of Adler in those days.

Here are some more photos:

[Allemano]

According to the Autenrieth book this car was built for a businessman from London.

Some more pics:

[DynaMike]

Thanks for all these very nice pictures!
The VS-license plate is German, it was used in the provence of Starkenburg (part of Hessen) just South of Frankfurt am Main, where, I think, the Adler factory was.

[grobmotorix]

I think I need this book, too...