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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: pnegyesi on March 18, 2012, 01:50:40 PM

Title: Solved: PN #302 -- Schleiff Casco-Puffer
Post by: pnegyesi on March 18, 2012, 01:50:40 PM
Please tell me what's going on here. Who's the inventor and what did he invent?
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on March 27, 2012, 10:29:49 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: bentleybob on March 27, 2012, 12:53:33 PM
This is a rubber bumper invented by the Dutch Overman company, which was supposed to absorb impacts up to 40 km/h, and actually gave one a reduction on the insurance fee. Many foreign companies took out a patent license for it, and no doubt they were sold in many countries under different names. There is a Hotchkiss in the Louwman Museum in the Netherlands who still has this bumper (see their site)
  
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on March 27, 2012, 01:19:21 PM
It is a rubber bumper, but my source gives me the name of another - not Dutch company. So one point for bentleybob but I leave the puzzle open for other names
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: tonyola on March 27, 2012, 01:46:14 PM
The first tree-hugging car. Mercedes was showing even in the 1920s that it could be eco-friendly.  ;D
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: D-type on April 07, 2012, 06:15:42 PM
Kleber made rubber things
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on April 09, 2012, 01:17:36 AM
Not by Kleber
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: D-type on April 10, 2012, 03:50:49 PM
Michelin?
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on April 11, 2012, 02:07:30 PM
Not a tire/tyre manufacturer
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: D-type on April 11, 2012, 04:47:34 PM
Googling "Rubber" and "Protection" brings up the London Rubber Company, but somehow I don't think that's the answer  ;)
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on April 12, 2012, 10:45:54 PM
no, this is not the answer
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on April 22, 2012, 12:23:12 AM
Professionals?
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: João on May 05, 2012, 02:27:55 AM
It's called "Casco-Puffer", an elastic bumper invented by Herr Schleiff.
Title: Re: PN #302
Post by: pnegyesi on May 05, 2012, 02:49:11 AM
And you're right. Congratulations
Title: Re: Solved: PN #302 -- Schleiff Casco-Puffer
Post by: pnegyesi on October 29, 2012, 07:40:02 AM
Some Maybach cars from 1928 with the Casco-Puffer