Name That Large Vehicle - Solved! NWF-Ford "Schnellbus"

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is? More important: what company constructed it, using what mechanicals?

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[Otto Puzzell]

 

[DynaMike]

I think this is a 1951 German Ford bus bodied by the Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeugbau (NWF), develloped by airplane builder Prof. Heinrich Focke, and nicknamed 'das Flugzeug der Landstraße' (airplane of the landroad). It had a 95 bhp Ford V-8 engine (or a 90 bhp Hercules diesel four).

[Otto Puzzell]

Also went by the nickname "Schnellbus"

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this bus?

correct chassis manufacturer + coachbuilding company = 1 point

[grobmotorix]

Experts?

[grobmotorix]

Too hard for the experts...

[pguillem]

A Mercedes-Benz bodied by Uerdingen ?

[grobmotorix]

Not Mercedes, not an Ürdingen-body.

But you´ve got the right country...

[pguillem]

A shot in the dark : Henschel bodied by Kässbohrer ?

[grobmotorix]

No and no.

Hint:

the basis make is very common.

[guido66]

Opel?

[grobmotorix]

No.

[pguillem]

A Ford bodied by Drauz ?

[Wendax]

Just back from two weeks holidays. I have to collect some points, I guess.

Ford Schnell-Bus, built in 1951 by Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeug-Bau GmbH (NWF), V8 gasoline or Diesel rear engine (Wistü-Sammelbild Nr. 72)

[grobmotorix]

That was my source, too!

"Schnellbus" means express-bus.

[Wendax]

A collection of Wistü pictures from my father's childhood days started my interest for old cars when I was about five years old. 

[pguillem]

Das Flugzeug der Landstrasse

[Allemano]

A great sketch!

[grobmotorix]

A collection of Wistü pictures from my father's childhood days started my interest for old cars when I was about five years old.  Grin

A collection of Wistü pictures from my uncle's childhood days started my interest for old cars when I was about five years old. 

[Wendax]

Over the past forty something years I managed to get hold of all  90 album pages and 684 different pictures. You don't have #158,  #163 or #166, by chance? 

[grobmotorix]

I´ve looked through my non-glued cards and I do not have one of them.
But if you can name the three vehicles, I may look through the pages of my glued albums...

My collection is smaller, but it came along with my uncle´s Schuco Varianto Schnellbus, which was modelled after the busses of the puzzle pic´s era.
The collecting cards and the album did survive - the Schuco bus died at my model car graveyard, when I was ca. 10 years old.

I thouhgt it would be cool to take a hammer an smash most of my model cars to pieces back in 1982.

[Carnut]

II thouhgt it would be cool to take a hammer an smash most of my model cars to pieces back in 1982.

You've had plenty of time to regret that decision!

[Otto Puzzell]

Merged

[grobmotorix]

The bus shared many components and the engine with this truck (as can be read in the german text):