Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, presented at Breslau in 1914

[grobmotorix]

Let this one roll over and crash into the black hole....

[guido66]

Was the event held in Kalisz?

[grobmotorix]

No - this rotten fruit is ripe enough to be thrown into the automobilistic black hole now...

[guido66]

Linke-Hofmann?

[grobmotorix]

None of those names, I´m sorry.

[grobmotorix]

I want this to be solved...

Here´s a fine detailed photo:

[D-type]

I want this to be solved...

So do I - I'm curious to know what it is.  Something for travelling in snow, perhaps.

[grobmotorix]

My last hint: This system of moving by walking has even be tested with a truck by its inventor:

[pnegyesi]

Was the event taking place in Poznan?

[grobmotorix]

Wrocław/Breslau

[pnegyesi]

Yes, the guy lived there, you already told us. However the first picture shows an event at a city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. My Poznan question referred to the location of this event

[grobmotorix]

I want this to be solved - I´ve found another vehicle he has developed:

[pnegyesi]

is this a pedal driven submarine???

[grobmotorix]

 

No, it´s a scale model of an early tank.

[pnegyesi]

are we talking about Günther Burstyn?

[grobmotorix]

No, but I´m sure this tank hint will uncover his name...

[pnegyesi]

is there any info available in German on this guy? I seem to go nowhere

[grobmotorix]

There were even two books about this tank.

And his first name was Friedrich.

[Otto Puzzell]

Friedrich Goeble, methinks

[grobmotorix]

LOCKED for you.

Most internet sources spell him wrongly - as did yours.



To give a big hint:

just interchange two letters and the name is correct.

And also this tank had no wheels but moved by walking like the vehicles I´ve shown before.

[Otto Puzzell]

Friedrich Goebel?

[grobmotorix]

Not bad for a non native german speaker, indeed!

Yes, the puzzle car was Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, he has presented in Breslau in 1914.

He has experimented with this principle for years and other results were the truck and even the tank shown here.

The tank was the so called "Landpanzerkreuzer".

And here´s the proof that the man is spelled "Goebel":

[pnegyesi]

congrats Otto

[grobmotorix]

I´d love to get any more information about his work.

[Otto Puzzell]

congrats Otto

Thank you. As is often the case, much of the heavy lifting was done earlier in the puzzle. Once we had "Friedrich" and "Tank", the rest was straightforward. I had previously assumed the puzzle device was a sort of movable bridge, which led me nowhere.