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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on November 17, 2011, 04:48:17 AM

Title: Fun #75 - Norman Bel Geddes / International Business Machines Bus
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 17, 2011, 04:48:17 AM
A larger form of transport

For 1 point, identify the designer, and the customer for this trasportation device. .

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Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 23, 2011, 03:20:39 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 30, 2011, 06:05:06 AM
Pros?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: pguillem on November 30, 2011, 09:38:32 AM
Is it a Bohn creation ?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 30, 2011, 03:45:24 PM
Quote from: pguillem on November 30, 2011, 09:38:32 AM
Is it a Bohn creation ?

Sure looks like one, but no.
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: woodinsight on December 01, 2011, 03:04:01 AM
Holland Coachcraft on a ? chassis?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 01, 2011, 03:43:56 AM
This was a scale model. I don't believe a full-size example was ever made.
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 16, 2011, 08:21:25 AM
Well-known designer and client
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Wendax on December 16, 2011, 09:54:15 AM
Raymond Loewy for Greyhound?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 16, 2011, 10:08:03 AM
Not Raymond, but of a similar ilk.

The customer was not in the passenger transportation business.
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Wendax on December 16, 2011, 10:13:19 AM
Brooks Stevens?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 16, 2011, 10:18:33 AM
Not him
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 04:38:11 AM
Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 04:45:27 AM
The list of possibilities grows shorter.  :)
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 04:46:55 AM
Alex Tremulis?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 04:48:35 AM
Walter Dorwin Teague?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 05:08:38 AM
Quote from: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 04:46:55 AM
Alex Tremulis?

Shorter...
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 05:08:52 AM
Quote from: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 04:48:35 AM
Walter Dorwin Teague?


...and shorter...
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 05:10:05 AM
Harley Earl?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 05:15:38 AM
Bill Mitchell?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 05:18:25 AM
Not Mitchell, nor Earl.

Like Loewy and some of the others mentioned, motor vehicles were but a part of this designers portfolio.
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 05:21:16 AM
Let's change the direction: Louis Lucien Lepoix?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
Norman Bel Geddes?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 05:35:09 AM
John Tjaarda?
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 09:52:18 AM
Quote from: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
Norman Bel Geddes?

That's the designer!
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 10:16:23 AM
And it's a 1947 truck design for IBM.
Title: Re: Fun #75
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 12:35:55 PM
I have it listed as "Norman Bel Geddes' design for an International Business Machine corporate bus"

Bus or truck? Hard to tell from the scale model.

Regardless, a point well-earned. 
Title: Re: Fun #75 - Norman Bel Geddes / International Business Machines Bus
Post by: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 01:04:37 PM
SIA call it a truck  :)

Title: Re: Fun #75 - Norman Bel Geddes / International Business Machines Bus
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 23, 2011, 01:12:16 PM
I found it elsewhere; I'll dig it up over the weekend - it also shows the model under construction
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