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Title: Solved - NEH 4199: Trippel Alligator amphibious car - 1957
Post by: Carnut on July 30, 2015, 07:31:41 AM
What's this, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: Carnut on August 13, 2015, 05:29:39 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: kwgibbs on August 13, 2015, 09:14:55 AM
Alligator prototype amphibious car?
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: Carnut on August 13, 2015, 10:00:46 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on August 13, 2015, 09:14:55 AM
Alligator prototype amphibious car?

Yes.  Locked for you to provide the full answer.
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: kwgibbs on August 13, 2015, 10:55:23 AM
I think it was a prototype model (alligator) by trippel eurocar,a three-seat convertible,the driver sat in the center and had an Austin engine.
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: Carnut on August 13, 2015, 11:53:29 AM
Quote from: kwgibbs on August 13, 2015, 10:55:23 AM
I think it was a prototype model (alligator) by trippel eurocar,a three-seat convertible,the driver sat in the center and had an Austin engine.

Yes, it was made by Hans Trippel.
You might be right about the engine, I'm not really sure..
It was the forerunner of the Triumph-engined Amphicar.
Would you like to have stab at its date since I asked for that in the original question?
Still locked!
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: kwgibbs on August 13, 2015, 11:58:19 AM
Im gonna guess 1959?
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: Carnut on August 13, 2015, 12:20:42 PM
Quote from: kwgibbs on August 13, 2015, 11:58:19 AM
Im gonna guess 1959?

I have a couple of years earlier but we'll call it solved since you have everything else..
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 4199: Trippel Alligator amphibious car - 1957
Post by: Wendax on August 13, 2015, 01:34:45 PM
Just to point out the connections:
It is the 1957 Trippel Alligator, which was developed into the 1959 Eurocar Alligator (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8381.msg247208#msg247208), which first kept the center steering, but later changed to LHD (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=8381.msg248583#msg248583). It finally emerged as the well known Amphicar.
Title: Re: NEH 4199
Post by: Wendax on August 13, 2015, 04:31:05 PM
Quote from: Carnut on August 13, 2015, 11:53:29 AM
(...)
You might be right about the engine, I'm not really sure..
(...)
The original leaflet described the engine as
"A U S T I N  Typ A 35 Sprite".
Title: Re: Solved - NEH 4199: Trippel Alligator amphibious car - 1957
Post by: Carnut on August 18, 2015, 10:58:59 AM
Original puzzle picture: