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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2011 => Topic started by: ftg3plus4 on April 10, 2011, 08:51:51 AM

Title: Solved: NTM #53 - 1913 Nesseldorf "Titanic"
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 10, 2011, 08:51:51 AM
What is it? Need make & model.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: Arunas on April 10, 2011, 08:55:28 AM
3x6 = 18 at least :o  ???
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 13, 2011, 12:07:42 PM
Since this has moved off the front page of Rookies and isn't getting any new views, I'm going to go ahead and take it to the Experts.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: D-type on April 13, 2011, 05:06:04 PM
"What is it that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
.... plus another 18 lines.

or a Dennis charabanc?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 14, 2011, 07:10:45 AM
Nope.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: Tackitt on April 14, 2011, 04:15:09 PM
Steam?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 14, 2011, 04:55:40 PM
Not to my knowledge.

The only info I have is the make, model, year, country, and purpose.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 21, 2011, 12:16:19 PM
OK, I'm going to toss this to the Pros now.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: Allan L on April 21, 2011, 07:01:30 PM
Radiator looks a bit like a FIAT, so perhaps this charabanc is one of theirs of the early 1920s.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 07:36:55 AM
Nope. Wrong country, wrong decade.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: woodinsight on April 22, 2011, 07:41:41 AM
French?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 07:45:18 AM
No. In Europe, but not quite as prolific of a car-producing country.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: woodinsight on April 22, 2011, 10:11:28 AM
Scania?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 10:32:30 AM
Nope. Not a Scandinavian country.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: woodinsight on April 22, 2011, 11:00:27 AM
Swiss?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 11:10:22 AM
No, but much closer geographically.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: woodinsight on April 22, 2011, 11:26:26 AM
Austria?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 11:57:00 AM
Correct... at least, it was Austria at the time.  ;)
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: woodinsight on April 22, 2011, 12:00:14 PM
Austro-Daimler pre-1920?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 12:15:30 PM
Pre-1920 but not Austro-Daimler.

And, to clarify my vague hint, the relevant place became part of something besides Austria after WW I.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: Wendax on April 22, 2011, 12:44:54 PM
Nesselsdorfer?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 12:54:15 PM
Correct -- It is a Nesseldorf.

Now we just need the model name.

Hints:
(1) It obviously means "big."
(2) It could be seen as a strange choice for the time (1913).
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: Wendax on April 22, 2011, 01:06:38 PM
I can't find anything usable, so I have to guess: Koloss?
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 01:37:14 PM
No. It's a very famous name -- and very recently famous as of 1913 -- but famous for a bad reason.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 22, 2011, 01:38:00 PM
Big hint: Think of bad things that happened shortly before 1913.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: Wendax on April 23, 2011, 12:59:59 PM
I found it in my Tatra book this evening: it is the Nesselsdorf Titanic from around 1910.
Title: Re: NTM #53
Post by: ftg3plus4 on April 23, 2011, 01:21:44 PM
I have it as 1913, but... you've got it!!

It was built as a sightseeing car for the factory workers, but its passengers in the pic are the management.
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