What's the name of this truck?
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moved.
from France?
Italian?
up again.
It is the IKA Renndienstwagen, built in 1950 by Karosseriefabrik Fritz Fleischer based on a 1947 Opel Blitz 1.5 ton truck. IKA stood for ,,Vereinigung Volkseigener Betriebe für Installationen, Kabel und Apparate Leipzig".
Yep.
Please excuse my very rusty "off the cuff" translation, but do I understand correctly that it's a service truck for cabling, electrical service and apparatus out of Leipzig (DDR) serving race tracks and teams?
RtR
I think it was a service car for all electrical matters of a racing car, especially spark plugs. The West German equivalent would have been a Bosch Renndienst.
Ohh....thanks.
RtR
Here´s all I have:
(and I´m quite sure it is a 1947 chassis, not a 1917 type as it is mentioned in the text below...)
No visible puzzle photos.
This bus was shown as a tiny icon in a 1954 IKA ad:
And a rear view: