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Title: Solved: PN #360 -- Linett, cca 1921
Post by: pnegyesi on September 04, 2012, 08:38:23 AM
Please identify this car for a point. Maker and model year will be sufficient. Sorry for the poor image
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Allemano on September 04, 2012, 11:59:41 AM
 ^-^
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 11, 2012, 06:15:22 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: D-type on September 11, 2012, 03:30:15 PM
Citroën
Type C
1923
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 11, 2012, 03:51:16 PM
no on all 3 counts here as well.
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 06:56:08 AM
Professionals?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2012, 07:06:53 AM
European?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 07:08:39 AM
Yes
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2012, 07:09:25 AM
From a German speaking country?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 07:24:12 AM
If I say yes, then it will be a bit misleading. This is a complicated story, related to a German-speaking country too
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2012, 07:37:29 AM
Constructed by an Austrian, but built somewhere else?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 07:58:16 AM
no
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2012, 01:19:12 PM
Built in Hungary?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 01:26:07 PM
there are a lot of people in Hungary who speak German, but I wouldn't say it is a German speaking country :)
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2012, 01:48:32 PM
So it was built in a German speaking country?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 02:00:48 PM
it was _built_ in a German speaking country
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 18, 2012, 02:13:44 PM
"Built" in Austria?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 18, 2012, 02:52:57 PM
Yes

Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Allemano on September 19, 2012, 12:30:14 PM
..but not on today's Austrian territory?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2012, 01:01:11 PM
No, it was built in Austria. But there's a twist - if I understand my source correctly. And this looks like a reliable source
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Allemano on September 19, 2012, 01:26:00 PM
Bock und Holender?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2012, 01:59:45 PM
no
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Allemano on September 19, 2012, 02:06:32 PM
Wyner?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2012, 02:13:09 PM
no
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Allemano on September 19, 2012, 02:23:49 PM
U-Wagen by Ing. Umann?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2012, 02:25:20 PM
no
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2012, 02:25:51 PM
Remember my clue: it was _built_ in Austria
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 19, 2012, 02:47:29 PM
Austro-Rumpler?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2012, 02:51:58 PM
no
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 19, 2012, 03:06:56 PM
Any relation to Fritz Hückel?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 20, 2012, 01:10:21 AM
nothing
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 20, 2012, 02:47:30 AM
Linett?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: woodinsight on September 20, 2012, 03:36:51 AM
Alba?
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 20, 2012, 05:13:55 AM
It is a Linett. Locked for Wendax to come up with a model year and then I explain what I found :)!
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: Wendax on September 20, 2012, 05:22:09 AM
Linett was active from 1921 to 1928. I don't have any further information. My guess would be 1923.
Title: Re: PN #360
Post by: pnegyesi on September 20, 2012, 06:08:00 AM
Okay, that'll do it - though the picture was taken in around 1921

I found this picture on a Norwegian site, where they say that Linett was made by the Norwegian-Austrian Automobile company. The reason it was made in Wien, Austria that the Norwegians felt there's enough experience, while in their home country there's not much. Linett is a combination of two Norwegian words: small and neat (liten and nett)
This was a 500 kg cyclecar, powered by a 13-hp air-cooled engine. It featured  chain drive, a patented non-electric starting device which could be operated from the driver's seat and Bosch lighting. Apparently it was sold in Oslo not in Austria
Title: Re: Solved: PN #360 -- Linett, cca 1921
Post by: woodinsight on September 20, 2012, 06:24:31 AM
I have the builder as Linett Automobilfabrik GmbH, Geusaugasse, Wien III
Title: Re: Solved: PN #360 -- Linett, cca 1921
Post by: Wendax on September 20, 2012, 06:33:15 AM
Geusaugasse 11, to be precise
Title: Re: Solved: PN #360 -- Linett, cca 1921
Post by: Allemano on September 20, 2012, 10:08:06 AM
No luck with my guesses..  :'(
But I can add this:
Quote
"Die am 14. Januar 1921 in Wien gegründete Linett-Automobilfabrik Ges.m.b.H., geleitet von einem Ingenieur Alfred Raimann, hatte vorher mit Fahrzeugen aus ehemaligen Heeresbeständen gehandelt und produzierte bis Ende 1927 in geringer Zahl Cyclecars, über die keine näheren technischen Angaben vorliegen."