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Title: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011 - Neil Armstrong / Wapakoneta Wheel Co
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 20, 2011, 05:28:52 AM
A well-known person in a well-known vehicle. And, a bunch of other guys.

For 1 point, make the connection.

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Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 26, 2011, 07:05:50 AM
Open to all
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 16, 2011, 08:23:24 AM
One of the most famous people on earth, and not one attempt at a solution
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Tom_I on December 16, 2011, 09:53:33 AM
I know who the person is - it's the connection that I can't find.
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 10, 2012, 02:34:59 PM
For those of you playing along, that's not Jack Nicholson

This puzzle is going to a place as dark as the far side of the moon
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: streamliner on January 13, 2012, 02:43:10 AM
Could those be the Ruppe & Son employees who built the 1910 Apollo automobile, where the Apollo program put the first man on the moon who was Neil Armstrong who is seen in the Mutt???
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 13, 2012, 03:20:30 AM
That's some fancy sleuthing, but no. These little shavers worked somewhere else.
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: streamliner on January 23, 2012, 09:37:13 PM
Could they be workers for the Armstrong Automobile from around 1904?
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 24, 2012, 03:46:10 AM
Quote from: streamliner on January 23, 2012, 09:37:13 PM
Could they be workers for the Armstrong Automobile from around 1904?

Good guess, but no. They work for an automotive supplier, though at the time the picture was taken, they also supplied the wooden wagon industry.
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: pnegyesi on January 24, 2012, 04:24:40 AM
Does the connection have anything to do with the Ford Trimotor?
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 24, 2012, 04:42:15 AM
Quote from: pnegyesi on January 24, 2012, 04:24:40 AM
Does the connection have anything to do with the Ford Trimotor?

I am aware of no connection with the Ford Trimotor
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: streamliner on January 25, 2012, 07:23:16 PM
I guess the most logical route would be:

Armstrong > Mutt > Built by Kaiser/Jeep > which had acquired Studebaker (1964) > Studebaker Wagon employees

Are we any closer???
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 26, 2012, 03:23:27 AM
No, not really.

There is one nugget in there that you might build off of: "Wagon"
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 19, 2012, 05:15:08 AM
Another look at a previous clue

Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: streamliner on April 21, 2012, 02:39:26 AM
Well then I guess the connection must be Wapakoneta, Ohio.

Neil Armstrong was born there and the workers are from the Wapakoneta Wheel Company, where the little guys whittled down the spokes of wagon wheels and were called "little shavers".  They mostly made the wheels that were too difficult for others to make.
Title: Re: Connections - 20 Nov, 2011
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 21, 2012, 03:10:13 AM
You are on a tear this morning!
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