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Title: Solved TGF-331: Austro-Daimler Mixte typ Taunus 1908
Post by: targhediferro on January 10, 2014, 08:49:43 AM
Can you identify this car? Make, model and year to get a point.
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: targhediferro on February 03, 2014, 11:03:16 AM
No interest among Experts. Up.
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: nicanary on February 03, 2014, 11:11:14 AM
Electric motors in the rear hubs - anything to do with Lohner-Porsche ?
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: targhediferro on February 03, 2014, 11:27:33 AM
My source just reports a marque, a model and a year; anyway I suppose there could be a link between this car a Lohner-Porsche.
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: pnegyesi on February 03, 2014, 11:41:17 AM
I just have very vague memories of a similar car. Is it a Metallurgique?
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: targhediferro on February 03, 2014, 11:58:20 AM
Not a Metallurgique.
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: pnegyesi on February 03, 2014, 12:13:25 PM
Mercedes Mixte?
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: grobmotorix on February 03, 2014, 12:52:13 PM
Hm - all the Elektro-Hybrid Mercedes I know have the electric drive integrated in the front wheels.

The overall design looks indeed very much like a Mercedes...

Let´s see what this is.

Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: grobmotorix on February 03, 2014, 01:13:10 PM
Well, I think Pal deserves the point, but here is what I´ve found:

The car shows Otto Kaes driving a modified 8 liter Austro-Daimler "Mixte" race car at Brooklands in 1908.
Title: Re: TGF-331
Post by: targhediferro on February 03, 2014, 04:49:01 PM
Yes, Grobmotorix got the right car! The picture shows an Austro-Daimler Mixte 1908 driven by Otto Kaes.  My source says it was called typ Taunus because of the fact it took part in Taunus Renn.
I'm quite sure that the electric engine was provided by Porsche who entered in Austro-Daimler in 1907, so it's probably it was a Lohner engine.
I think Grobmotorix deserves this point.
Title: Re: Solved TGF-331: Austro-Daimler Mixte typ Taunus 1908
Post by: pnegyesi on February 03, 2014, 10:58:44 PM
yes, it is his point
Title: Re: Solved TGF-331: Austro-Daimler Mixte typ Taunus 1908
Post by: grobmotorix on February 04, 2014, 11:58:52 AM
Oh, thank you both!