Not easy I guess, but we shall see...
For a point: who built this microcar?
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Fixed.
Promoted!
Rogowski 350cc 1959
Quote from: Jean-Marie H on January 31, 2012, 07:14:12 PM
Rogowski 350cc 1959
Indeed striking similiar if not the same :o !!!
... but I do have a different name than "Rogowski".
I talked with the man who owns this car and I believe he's very reliable.
Jean-Marie H, from where do you have that info?
Please send me a PM and meanwhile I lock this puzzle for you!
I gave Jean-Marie H a point as he clearly identified the right car.
What I still need is the name of the company!
Thank you Allemano ;)
Have a go Pro's!
The company built only this 'car' and is better known for other vehicles...
Krause?
Quote from: Wendax on March 08, 2012, 03:05:00 AM
Krause?
No, but you're heading toward the right area (geographically)..
Were the other vehicles railway-related?
Quote from: Wendax on March 08, 2012, 03:17:41 AM
Were the other vehicles railway-related?
amongst others – yes!
Waggonbau Görlitz?
Gustav Kesslau, Potsdam?
Was it made by a private company, not a VEB?
Quote from: Wendax on March 08, 2012, 04:02:52 AM
Was it made by a private company, not a VEB?
The company experienced many changes in their history. At the time the car was built it was publicly owned.
Gothaer Waggonfabrik?
Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg, formerly Orenstein & Koppel?
Quote from: Wendax on March 08, 2012, 08:01:50 AM
Lokomotivbau Karl Marx Babelsberg, formerly Orenstein & Koppel?
:shakehead:
Any other VEB under the roof of VVB LOWA or how it was called later on: VEB Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau der DDR?
Quote from: Wendax on March 09, 2012, 02:58:37 AM
Any other VEB under the roof of VVB LOWA or how it was called later on: VEB Kombinat Schienenfahrzeugbau der DDR?
Gänäu rischtiisch!
VEB Waggonbau Ammendorf, formerly Gottfried Lindner AG, well-known for car bodies and trailers?
Quote from: Wendax on March 09, 2012, 03:06:19 AM
VEB Waggonbau Ammendorf, formerly Gottfried Lindner AG, well-known for car bodies and trailers?
Not them.
VEB Waggonbau Bautzen, formerly Linke-Hofmann-Busch?
Quote from: Wendax on March 09, 2012, 03:08:32 AM
VEB Waggonbau Bautzen, formerly Linke-Hofmann-Busch?
Exactly! It was only a matter of time! ;)
If you search the internet you'll find that car mentioned, but not shown on their website.
Found it (I think they mixed up Junkers and Messerschmitt in their text ;) )
Funny thing that this microcar wasn't mentioned in any book about microcars or East German cars so far. Do you know whether it used the unusual two-stroke Boxer engine of the IFA BK 350 motorcycle?
I talked with the current owner and he said it's equipped with a 350cc Jawa engine.
For Information:
In the meantime I bought exactly that car with the original documents from 1959.
Dezember 2012 I started a public question for more information in the "Oldtimer Markt" magazine in Germany and talked to a few surviving veterans of the "Waggonbau Bautzen".
They told me, that the directors / technical directors ... of that plant planed to build 7 cars, but had to stop that projekt because of political problems. The exactly number of cars built is not known, but I found no further car.
The history page og the "Waggonbau Bautzen" got some pictures and information from me for their homepage.
Kaimann
Another view: