Solved: Wendax 1439 - Weisemobil

Wendax · December 11, 2014, 02:15:37 AM

Basic FWD.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · December 18, 2014, 02:28:07 AM

up

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 02:13:29 AM

up again

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 02:23:40 AM

German marque?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 03:07:15 AM

Yes

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 03:11:46 AM

Manufactured before 1920?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 04:06:58 AM

No

Arunas · December 25, 2014, 04:42:18 AM

Could this be Slevogt?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 04:44:58 AM

No, the Slevogt looked like this: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16742

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 12:34:50 PM

Görlitz built Zetgelette from about 1923?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 12:39:50 PM

No

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 12:55:56 PM

Borcharding?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 01:00:03 PM

No

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 01:11:03 PM

Lesshaft?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 01:15:35 PM

No, the Lesshaft didn't have the engine above the front wheel.

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 01:18:12 PM

Manufactured before 1930?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 01:23:52 PM

No

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 01:51:38 PM

Weise?

Wendax · December 25, 2014, 02:05:23 PM

Yes, locked for you to find the model.

4popoid · December 25, 2014, 10:14:38 PM

Thanks for the lock Gerd. After much internet research I have been unable to come up with either a photograph or any proper model designation. The following sentence contains all of the information that I have been able to glean regarding the Weise automobile.

The Weise automobile was a Dreiradwagen manufactured in Berlin in 1932 and/or 1933 (depending on the source), selling for RM 1,750, and powered by a single cylinder 200-cc Rinne 2-stroke engine that sat without cover over the single front wheel.

If this sentence does not contain the information you require you might as well unlock the puzzle, as I don't know where else to search.

Wendax · December 26, 2014, 02:02:18 AM

The correct name has been an incorrect guess at AutoPuzzles before.

Unlocked and open for all.

4popoid · December 26, 2014, 03:08:41 AM

Flivver?

Wendax · December 26, 2014, 03:20:11 AM

No. Big hint: the manufacturer's name is also part of the model designation.

4popoid · December 26, 2014, 03:35:08 AM

Big hint!!!! Weisemobil?

Wendax · December 26, 2014, 04:32:30 AM

Correct.

I could have made this puzzle almost insolvable, if I had asked for the coachbuilder, as it is mentioned nowhere in literature AFAIK. The puzzle pic was for sale at an online auction. On the backside there is a stamp that the picture belonged to the Wagenfabrik Joh. Hellmuth in Berlin. And I can't think of any other good reason for a coachbuilder to keep (and stamp) a picture of a simple threewheeler tha that he built the wooden body and kept the picture for reference.
Below another picture of the four-seater version.

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Solved: Wendax 1439 - Weisemobil