Solved TGF-379: Framo HT 600 by Raschke, 1935

[targhediferro]

I'd like to know make, model and coachbuilder of this little truck.

[Majeko]

Italian?

[targhediferro]

No.

[targhediferro]

Up.

[Wendax]

German?

[targhediferro]

Ja.

[pguillem]

Adler ?

[targhediferro]

Not an Adler.

[pguillem]

Framo ?

[targhediferro]

Framo ?

Yes, locked for you to add the coachbuilder.

[pguillem]

Please unlocl.  I'm sure that our German friends have the answer.

Thanks

[Bill Murray]

The coach builder for this one is Raschke.  Found on the Internet but not by GSBI.
I am not sure of the model type, this is as close as I can come, an HT600 of 1934/1937.

Bill

[targhediferro]

Sorry Pguillem, As you asked to unlock I'll take  Bill's answer for good even if I hadn't unlocked it yet
It's indeed a Framo HT600 by Raschke (I have it as 1935, but I think 34-37 is the correct range).

[Bill Murray]

Please accept my apologies if I violated the Forum protocol.
Pguillem asked that it be unlocked and I assumed you would do so when you came back online.

As well, I answered it at midnight my time on one of my three pee breaks per night (I have an enlarged prostate gland) and I figured I would go ahead and answer the puzzle.

As a side note, this is the only photo I have seen of an HT600 with the wheels that are normally found on the three wheelers or their aero style car.  A bit rare I think.

Again, sorry if I stepped out of line.

Bill

[pguillem]

No problem at all. I'm busy with my new computer, so I don't have much time for searching.  Anyway, I had been searching for Raschke but never found this one.  Is it based on a HT600 ?  The Piccolo seems to be also possible.

Something strange, however : the Powalski site, describing the history of Raschke, identifies this van as "erste Versuche mit Bussen - Lieferwagen mit Busaufbau aus den 1930er Jahren". A Framo ?  maybe, maybe not.

[Bill Murray]

Hi PG:

Glad I didn't tick you off.

As to computers, you and I are of the same generation (70 years old/74 years old), and perhaps like me you find them both a blessing and a curse.

I am going through a bit of a problem just now in that I have two PCs and a Mac.  As my company that I owned for 20 years was heavily PC dependent, I leased the PCs for three years and when a new lease came up purchased the old ones for a dollar apiece and kept the best for myself and donated the rest to "Good Works" outfits.  This last took place in 2010 and I sold the business to my son in 2012.  That PC runs on Windows XP which has just been abandoned by Microsoft in terms of support and has already come up with some gremlins.  In 2011, I purchased a second PC that runs on Windows 7 which I hate.  As a result, I purchased a Mac for my downstairs office area and that worked OK until the latest big cyber attack.

Suffice to say, I had to dump everything on the Mac and do their patch stuff and it screwed everything up.  Lost passwords, data files got reorganized, reset a lot of settings put in place by Apple when I purchased the machine to default settings, you name it.  So good luck with your new one.

As to the puzzle vehicle, I am satisfied myself that it is a Framo, I have found it on several sites.  I do not think it is on one of the passenger car chassis as it is just too large.  I think that bearing in mind that they were a quite low volume producer that they did a bit of "mix and match" when it came to such items as wheels for example.  This puzzle vehicle is a minibus and may  have needed the commercial style wheels from similar three wheeler vehicles.

I also use the Powalski site quite a lot and Google does a pretty good translation and I did not read anything that scared me off of Framo as a base chassis.

It would be nice if TGF  could tell us a bit more about how he identified the vehicle without disclosing his source.
I am still looking to come up with 1935 as the year of manufacture.

Been fun.

Bill

[targhediferro]

Hi Bill and PG,
I would be glad to tell you where I found the caption of this picture I have in my archive...perhaps I stored the picture copying it from Powalsky too, or somewhere else.
I have some 175000 pictures stored in three different pc, and in some Ubs-Keys, but unluckily not all of them have accurate captions, and often I don't remember the source where I took them from.   As soon as I will have ten years of free time...I'll start to make some order. 

[pguillem]

Hi Bill and PG,
I would be glad to tell you where I found the caption of this picture I have in my archive...perhaps I stored the picture copying it from Powalsky too, or somewhere else.
I have some 175000 pictures stored in three different pc, and in some Ubs-Keys, but unluckily not all of them have accurate captions, and often I don't remember the source where I took them from.   As soon as I will have ten years of free time...I'll start to make some order. 

175 000 pictures ! I hope that you have a powerful indexing tool.  Mine is Copernic Desktop Search, which is very quick, but limited to 20 000 files in the free version.  I'm very happy with it.

My old computer was System 7 and I became familiar with it.  System 8.1 ia somewwhat different, but i become acquainted with it. Skydrive/OneDrive was very helpful for the transition, but it takes much time, too mucg time.

Good luck with your machines ! I learned that their life span varies from 3 to 5 years.  Better be prepared for the fatalities... 

Patrick 

[targhediferro]

I know I will have some troubles.   I use two of the three PC just like a store disk  (one have Windows.95 system!)
It's two or three years since I began to order almost the best pictures in files (makes, model and coachbuilders); it's a long job, and I often have to correct the captions!
I will try Copernic, another friend of mines is happy with it too...thank you for the suggestion.
Fabrizio