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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: Wendax on May 27, 2012, 02:54:17 AM

Title: Solved: Wendax 591 - Mercedes-Benz bus, bodied by Esselmann
Post by: Wendax on May 27, 2012, 02:54:17 AM
A bus with two additional child seats  :D

For one point, please respond and identify the coachbuilder and the brand of the chassis used.
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Post by: Wendax on June 03, 2012, 02:27:33 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on June 10, 2012, 01:23:45 AM
up again
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on June 10, 2012, 04:01:28 AM
Those fender-mounted mascots are incredibly life-like
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Post by: pguillem on June 10, 2012, 01:18:08 PM
M.A.N based ?
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Post by: woodinsight on June 10, 2012, 01:42:09 PM
Mercedes-Benz chassis?
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Post by: Wendax on June 10, 2012, 01:58:53 PM
Quote from: pguillem on June 10, 2012, 01:18:08 PM
M.A.N based ?
No
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Post by: Wendax on June 10, 2012, 02:00:36 PM
Quote from: woodinsight on June 10, 2012, 01:42:09 PM
Mercedes-Benz chassis?
Yes
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Post by: woodinsight on June 11, 2012, 05:59:22 AM
Did the coachbuilder also body cars?
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Post by: Wendax on June 11, 2012, 06:27:36 AM
No
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Post by: woodinsight on June 11, 2012, 09:38:30 AM
Gottlob Auwaerter?
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Post by: Wendax on June 11, 2012, 09:43:45 AM
No, less known
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Post by: woodinsight on June 11, 2012, 09:59:03 AM
Harmening of Buckeburg?
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Post by: Wendax on June 11, 2012, 10:04:23 AM
No, but geographically you are less than 150 km away
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Post by: pguillem on June 11, 2012, 10:47:43 AM
Trutz ?
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Post by: RayTheRat on June 11, 2012, 10:57:27 AM
Hanomag by Schreiner?
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Post by: Wendax on June 11, 2012, 12:14:20 PM
Quote from: pguillem on June 11, 2012, 10:47:43 AM
Trutz ?
No
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Post by: Wendax on June 11, 2012, 12:15:16 PM
Quote from: RayTheRat on June 11, 2012, 10:57:27 AM
Hanomag by Schreiner?
It is a Mercedes-Benz (see above) and it is not by Schreiner.
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Post by: woodinsight on June 11, 2012, 12:39:42 PM
Pio Karosserie, Hamburg?
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Post by: Wendax on June 11, 2012, 02:20:28 PM
Quote from: woodinsight on June 11, 2012, 12:39:42 PM
Pio Karosserie, Hamburg?
No
Title: Re: Wendax 591
Post by: woodinsight on June 11, 2012, 10:34:37 PM
Raschke?
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Post by: pguillem on June 11, 2012, 11:42:57 PM
Something exotic : Vert ?
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Post by: Wendax on June 12, 2012, 04:20:49 AM
Neither Raschke nor Vert
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Post by: woodinsight on June 12, 2012, 06:19:41 AM
Is the coachbuilder situated in/around Bonn?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2012, 02:51:46 AM
No
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Post by: woodinsight on June 13, 2012, 03:39:13 AM
How about Eickhoff?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2012, 04:00:24 AM
No, still around 100 km off
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Post by: woodinsight on June 13, 2012, 04:57:16 AM
I have several coachbuilders that I don't know where they were based, therefore some of my guesses may be wide (in distance terms) of the mark!
Bolick?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2012, 09:23:34 AM
Not Bolick
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Post by: woodinsight on June 13, 2012, 12:48:04 PM
Uerdingen Waggonfabrik?
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Post by: Wendax on June 13, 2012, 04:46:44 PM
No
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Post by: woodinsight on June 14, 2012, 01:09:19 AM
Scholch?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2012, 03:05:46 AM
No
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Post by: woodinsight on June 14, 2012, 07:35:01 AM
Kuhn?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2012, 07:49:41 AM
No
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Post by: woodinsight on June 14, 2012, 07:57:35 AM
Soon running out of suggestions......
Another guess - KAFA?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2012, 08:30:58 AM
Sorry, no

A small hint: the company is still active, but they don't do buses anymore.
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Post by: woodinsight on June 14, 2012, 09:10:16 AM
My last guess for now - NWF?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2012, 10:05:09 AM
no, less known
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Post by: woodinsight on June 14, 2012, 11:33:06 AM
Peter Bauer?
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Post by: Wendax on June 14, 2012, 01:23:02 PM
No, not from Cologne
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Post by: guido66 on June 20, 2012, 05:12:28 PM
From Aachen?
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Post by: Wendax on June 21, 2012, 03:54:39 AM
Not from Aachen, still around 200 km off target
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Post by: grobmotorix on June 21, 2012, 06:02:25 PM
Ludewig?
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Post by: Wendax on June 22, 2012, 02:21:33 AM
No, but less than 100 km away now
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Post by: woodinsight on June 22, 2012, 02:41:45 AM
Lueg?
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Post by: Wendax on June 22, 2012, 02:45:37 AM
No, still more than 50 km to go
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Post by: woodinsight on July 25, 2012, 03:56:13 PM
From Munster?
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Post by: Wendax on July 26, 2012, 04:29:11 AM
Not from Münster, but less than 50 km away now
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Post by: woodinsight on July 26, 2012, 09:42:09 AM
From Bielefeld? - if so then perhaps by Voss Werke?
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Post by: Wendax on July 26, 2012, 01:06:30 PM
No, not Bielefeld, moving off target again. You're 80 km away now.
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Post by: woodinsight on July 26, 2012, 02:25:53 PM
Westfalia in Wiedenbruck?
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Post by: Wendax on July 27, 2012, 05:13:11 PM
No, still 50 km away  ;D
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Post by: woodinsight on July 28, 2012, 05:36:57 AM
Perhaps the location is in the Coesfeld/Dulmen/Ludinghausen area?
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Post by: Wendax on July 28, 2012, 07:02:43 AM
Quote from: woodinsight on July 28, 2012, 05:36:57 AM
Perhaps the location is in the Coesfeld/Dulmen/Ludinghausen area?
A little more to the south east  ;)
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Post by: woodinsight on July 28, 2012, 02:44:50 PM
Hamm?
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Post by: Wendax on July 28, 2012, 03:09:17 PM
Yes
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Post by: pguillem on July 28, 2012, 03:12:42 PM
Esselmann !
Title: Re: Wendax 591
Post by: Wendax on July 28, 2012, 03:58:29 PM
Yes, it is a Mercedes-Benz bus (probably an O 3500) bodied by Esselmann.

One point for you, pguillem.
Bad luck, woodinsight, but thanks for driving this puzzle forward so much.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 591 - Mercedes-Benz bus, bodied by Esselmann
Post by: pguillem on July 28, 2012, 05:19:56 PM
There is another bus on Esselmann site.  Could it be a M.A.N MKN ?
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 591 - Mercedes-Benz bus, bodied by Esselmann
Post by: Wendax on July 28, 2012, 05:55:56 PM
There surely is a similarity, but all MAN MKN I know pictures of do have Trilex wheels. And that applies to most big German buses of the early 50s. Perhaps it is a Borgward or a Magirus-Deutz?
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 591 - Mercedes-Benz bus, bodied by Esselmann
Post by: pguillem on July 28, 2012, 10:48:30 PM
Some MKNs didn't have Trilex wheels.  Who knows ?
Title: Re: Wendax 591
Post by: woodinsight on July 29, 2012, 05:30:38 AM
Quote from: Wendax on July 28, 2012, 03:58:29 PM
Yes, it is a Mercedes-Benz bus (probably an O 3500) bodied by Esselmann.

One point for you, pguillem.
Bad luck, woodinsight, but thanks for driving this puzzle forward so much.
Not a problem - I enjoyed the German geographical lesson and learning of some new German coachbuilders. (I didn't know about Esselmann so I wouldn't have guessed it anyway)
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