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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: Wendax on November 16, 2013, 01:36:00 AM

Title: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: Wendax on November 16, 2013, 01:36:00 AM

A huge convertible.

For one point, please respond and identify this bus. The marque is sufficient to obtain the point.

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on November 23, 2013, 12:53:56 AM

up

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on November 30, 2013, 01:29:49 AM

up again

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Bill Murray on November 30, 2013, 07:05:12 AM

German marque??

Bill

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on November 30, 2013, 11:31:13 AM

Ja

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Bill Murray on December 01, 2013, 07:11:07 AM

Komnick mid twenties??

Bill

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2013, 07:15:43 AM

Mid-twenties, but less known than Komnick

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Paul Jaray on December 01, 2013, 08:13:55 AM

Did they build cars too?

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2013, 08:25:20 AM

No

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: pnegyesi on December 01, 2013, 10:59:03 AM

Krauss Maffei?

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2013, 01:03:48 PM

No

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: grobmotorix on December 01, 2013, 03:31:43 PM

Is it a MWF (Magdeburger Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik AG)?

Title: Re: Wendax 1071
Post by: Wendax on December 01, 2013, 03:35:52 PM

I'm deeply impressed, spot on!

One well-earned point for you.

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: grobmotorix on December 01, 2013, 03:58:18 PM

Oh, wow, I only had one photo from the side in a book, that resembled the cooler mask from your puzzle pic. ::)

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: Bill Murray on December 01, 2013, 04:58:27 PM

Well done, Burkhard, I salute you :applause: :applause:

I had convinced myself this was a Polizie Bus because of the large searchlight on the back and the direction signal on the front even if the driver was not a Polizie.

I therefore spent about two hours on some books I have on the subject plus the web and came up with zilch.

Quite a rare marque indeed.

Bill

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: D-type on December 01, 2013, 06:47:33 PM

Is this what was meant by a 'charabanc'

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: Bill Murray on December 01, 2013, 07:53:00 PM

Certainly, if you Google that word either as "Google" or "Google images" that is what appears.

"Open Touring Bus" seems to be the operative description and this puzzle fits that description even if I personally got misled by the conception that it was a Police bus.

Edit:  A better literal translation is "Chair Car".

Bill

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: Carnut on December 02, 2013, 04:57:57 AM

Quote from: D-type on December 01, 2013, 06:47:33 PM

Is this what was meant by a 'charabanc'

"Carriage with wooden benches" seems to be the literal translation from the original French.
I've never seen one that wasn't open but I believe they could also be closed; that's not the meaning of the word today, though: they all seem to be open.

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1071 - MWF bus
Post by: targhediferro on December 03, 2013, 10:51:28 AM

Thank you for posting all these beautiful pictures of a brand I just have heard about.