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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: DeAutogids on March 23, 2011, 06:03:23 PM

Title: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - Goliath from dealer Amko
Post by: DeAutogids on March 23, 2011, 06:03:23 PM
For one point, tell me the picture shows:
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: DeAutogids on March 30, 2011, 05:47:01 AM
No replies, so I will move it to the experts.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: Tuckeroo on March 30, 2011, 01:36:48 PM
Goliath? Goliath Pionier?
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: DeAutogids on March 30, 2011, 02:22:51 PM
I believe it is not
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: DeAutogids on April 11, 2011, 01:55:47 PM
I suppose the pro's know
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: Wendax on April 11, 2011, 01:59:37 PM
I have a very similar car in a book as a Goliath Pionier with Indian taxi coachwork. As you say it isn't Goliath, is it at least Indian?
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: DeAutogids on April 11, 2011, 02:12:51 PM
My source says no. But geographically you are close. Even the country name is close.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: Wendax on April 11, 2011, 02:14:50 PM
So it is Indonesia.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: grobmotorix on April 11, 2011, 02:15:15 PM
AMKO taxi, Java. That´s what my source says.

But I cannot find any infos about a company called Amko.
So maybe it really is a Goliath, running under the Amko brand (maybe the taxi sevice´s name?).
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: Wendax on April 11, 2011, 03:19:31 PM
I know that Wikipedia is not right all the time, but this particular picture is listed in Wikimedia Commons in the Category "Goliath Vehicles".
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time?
Post by: DeAutogids on April 11, 2011, 03:48:15 PM
That's the picture. Now zoom in somewhere else and you will find... another name (the taxi company name).
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - AMKO
Post by: grobmotorix on April 12, 2011, 01:14:41 AM
Right, the taxi company´s name seems to be something like "D.A.V.O." or  "D.AW.D".
So AMKO may be the brand name, indeed.

Does anybody have any information about it?

The company´s logo looks very "european" in my eyes...

BTW: thank you for that point!
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - AMKO
Post by: DeAutogids on April 12, 2011, 04:20:40 AM
Grobmotorix,
The actual goal of my puzzle is to find out more about this mysterious car as well.

Indonesia at the time was a colony of the Netherlands and therefore it could well be that a Dutchman started a company with these cars. It is known that other Dutch makers like Econoom, Simplex and V.L.A.M. exported to Indonesia. Makers from the area, like the Australian Eco, also had an eye on Indonesia. It could have been that a local company made a body on the chassis of a Goliath, eventhough it does not look like a Goliath to me. But that's just me maybe.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - AMKO
Post by: Wendax on April 12, 2011, 04:24:32 AM
The wheels seem to be the same.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - AMKO
Post by: DeAutogids on April 12, 2011, 04:34:33 AM
Wheels have often been bought in from local suppliers, presumably this could be a "generic" wheel?

On the other hand: the wheelbase is more or less the same it seems, so it might be a local body, though it seems that the front part is much shorter?

Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - AMKO
Post by: Wendax on April 12, 2011, 04:40:22 AM
The whole body including the front surely is local.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - Goliath from dealer Amko
Post by: DeAutogids on July 22, 2011, 05:26:07 AM
(http://www.conam.info/images/stories/nederlands-indie/goliath-akviz-1.jpg)
This ad for Goliath shows one of their agents in what was then the Dutch Indies as being Amko. I was therefore wrong.

As a result, I have added another point for Wendax.
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - Goliath from dealer Amko
Post by: Tuckeroo on July 22, 2011, 01:10:13 PM
Quote from: Tuckeroo on March 30, 2011, 01:36:48 PM
Goliath? Goliath Pionier?

Quote from: DeAutogids on March 30, 2011, 02:22:51 PM
I believe it is not

I would have pursued this route had I not been told otherwise  :-[
Title: Re: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - Goliath from dealer Amko
Post by: DeAutogids on August 08, 2011, 06:51:58 AM
I am very sorry. But at least I admitted to being wrong and corrected my mistake.

It sometimes happens in books as well, main thing is that it is corrected, I would say.