Pipe bus with Heilmann compound suspension + Labourdette bodywork, ca. 1908-1910

grobmotorix · November 05, 2011, 12:05:18 PM

Who knows this vehicle?

grobmotorix · December 03, 2011, 11:38:04 AM

Up!

Otto Puzzell · December 04, 2011, 06:38:32 AM

Wow - what a monster!

D-type · December 05, 2011, 03:55:45 PM

A blind guess:

A WW1 Vickers armoured car (unclothed)

grobmotorix · December 05, 2011, 04:21:35 PM

No, it´s not from the UK.

M630 · December 06, 2011, 03:24:22 PM

Latil ?

grobmotorix · December 07, 2011, 01:22:56 AM

Not Latil, but also a product of la Grande Nation.

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 12:33:34 PM

Up again!

João · December 12, 2011, 12:39:31 PM

It's a Pipe with a system called Compound?

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 01:05:33 PM

Wasn´t Pipe belgian?

Sorry, but you took the wrong pipe anyway - no...

Allemano · December 12, 2011, 01:07:01 PM

João · December 12, 2011, 01:12:04 PM

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 01:16:11 PM

Wow, the design is obviously the same - maybe mine was the original and Pipe made a licence build?

I really wonder if I should give you an extra point for this monster...

What do the others think?

Mine is not a pipe anyway.

LOCKED for João!!

Wendax · December 12, 2011, 01:18:37 PM

... but it has pipe hubcaps

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 01:24:18 PM

Oh my...then my source seems to be wrong.
Autopuzzles.com is amazing me again!

Joao - the point is yours - Compound is the name of this specific Pipe model?

Then I´lll reveil what my source said:

Heilmann Train Avant, 1910.

But I´ve got to admit that you must be right, of course:

João · December 12, 2011, 01:28:05 PM

No problem.

It's from 1908,and it's electric and gas powered.All I know.

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 01:30:11 PM

Congratulations!

Very interesting, indeed!

I would love to get any more information about it...

Wendax · December 12, 2011, 01:45:36 PM

That's what I have as a Heilmann Avant-Train:

grobmotorix · December 12, 2011, 02:04:04 PM

I know this 1898 vehicle quite good - I think I´ve placed it as a puzzle myself...
But I thought it could be possible that it would have developed into he current puzzle pic vehicle within 12 years...

grobmotorix · June 03, 2014, 01:23:54 PM

Now this is the solution why there were so many different names around:

grobmotorix · February 03, 2015, 04:35:10 PM

Two more 1910 hi-res photos of suspension details:

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Pipe bus with Heilmann compound suspension + Labourdette bodywork, ca. 1908-1910