Pls identify the coachbuilder for a point
Experts?
Professionals?
This must be one really important Hanomag, Pal.
It looks like a hundred other Hanomag van photos one can find on the net.
Anything else you could maybe tell us about it?
Bill
I agree. Looks like an ordinary Kofferaufbau on an early Hanomag L 28 (rear hinged doors).
German coachbuilder?
yes, this is a very ordinary Hanomag. You have to focus on the coachbuilder though. As it has some relatively rare attributes
Support vehicle for Porsche?
Bill
German company. And it is not the vehicle which is interesting at all (nothing to do with Porsche though). It is the company which made the body
Does the body at the rear have openings on all sides?
it is a regular truck body
I am intrigued by the series of small rectangular panels around the truck body. They do not appear to be painted on, but rather either picture frames for holding print media, or transparent viewing ports for looking into the van. They might even be ports holding CRT screens, but the placement doesn't look right, and, unless they were added later, the the date of truck manufacture looks too early. Are these panels significant to the puzzle solution?
Also, I may be completely wrong, but I think I see what looks like a very small model car toward the lower front of the van body in what looks like open (openable?) area under the panels mentioned above.
no, as I said previously, this is an ordinary body on a Hanomag chassis. You are better off focusing on the company
Does the coachbuilder still exist?
yes
Did the coachbuilder usually do coachwork for cars, not trucks?
it built mostly truck bodies
A rather obscure coachbuilder?
I would say so
North of a line between Düsseldorf and Dresden?
yes
From the federal state of Lower Saxony?
no
From Bremen?
no
From North Rhine-Westphalia?
yes
form Düsseldorf?
no
Is it perhaps a body by Raschke (from Mülheim, Ruhr)?
no
Is the coachbuilder located within 50 km from Essen?
no, more than that
Your quiz about the Opel kapitan hearse has forced me to know something more about Westrick Karosseriefabrik, as I knew little about it. I understand that they made several conversions on Hanomag L28...they are still operating in North Westfalia, so I want to try this guess.
no, not them
The Opel Kapitän was my puzzle, and I came across it while looking for an answer to Pal's Hanomag puzzle. ;D
From the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia?
Quote from: Wendax on March 21, 2014, 03:06:44 AM
The Opel Kapitän was my puzzle, and I came across it while looking for an answer to Pal's Hanomag puzzle. ;D
Sorry Gerd...I didn't mean to take over your copyright! ;D
Quote from: Wendax on March 21, 2014, 03:09:02 AM
From the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia?
in a reasonable distance I see Bielefeld and Osnabrück
Kramer from Gütersloh?
no
Clausing Fahrzeugtechnik GmbH of Minden?
It is Karl Lassig Karosseriebau from Bad Oeynhausen.
Wendax found it. A 100-year-old coachbuilder