Who knows the company that has been responsible for those conversions?
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From Brazil?
Europe.
Hamburg coachbuilder?
From Germany but not in the north.
Stoll?
It´s from the central region of Germany.
And it is not Stoll.
AWS (Salzgitter I suppose is relatively central)?
No, the company has been located at the Ruhr area ca.300km west from Salzgitter.
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From Essen?
YES!
Gebruder Ludewig?
That would have been ways too easy... ;D
Quote from: grobmotorix on April 11, 2013, 12:55:58 PM
That would have been ways too easy... ;D
I know but I had to eliminate that one first.... ;)
Perhaps Fahrzeugwerke Lueg?
Too easy... ;)
Quote from: grobmotorix on April 11, 2013, 01:12:32 PM
Too easy... ;)
I don't have any other suggestions for the moment..... :'(
Well, it´s the pro level... ;)
Keep digging!
Does the company still exist?
No, but I´ve found the company name at a german website that dealt with tractor conversions and tractors...
Hermann Eicker, Rüttenscheider Straße 315/19, Essen?
BINGO!
It would be most interesting if one of those special bodies has survived...
But then the company was located at Josephinenstraße 29:
My address information is from 1952. ;D
Congratulations!
Quote from: grobmotorix on April 12, 2013, 12:09:18 PM
It would be most interesting if one of those special bodies has survived...
Some weeks ago there was an Austrian post-WW2 Jeep conversion for sale on ebay, but no builder mentioned, so it didn't turn into a puzzle. :D
In 1985, there was a Jeep converted to a homebuilt tractor with Hatz-Diesel engine (single cylinder, 12 hp) shown at the Sinsheim museum.
I never recognized that! Amazing!
I worked exactly in that street! (Josephinenstraße). Nr.29 the abandoned little factory/garage building existed since last year, but alas it's replaced by a new building now.. :-\
@Grob: would you mind to mail the original scan?
Here it is:
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And an ad from a magazine
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I wonder, if Eicker really did the conversions by himself, or if he was just selling these under his own name. In 1949 he was the general Western and Southern Germany distributor for Jeeps converted by NAM (Niedersächsisches Auto- und Motoren-Instandsetzungswerk Janssen & Mikolajczyk, soon to become the better known Autowerke Salzgitter).
Well, that kind of looks like a proof that Eicker was only a NAM dealer...
Thank you.
And another picture of a NAM Jeep with exactly the same bodywork as the "Eicker Jeep" on the right-hand side: