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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2015 => Topic started by: Wendax on December 17, 2014, 12:59:50 AM

Title: Solved: Wendax 1445 - Motormuli
Post by: Wendax on December 17, 2014, 12:59:50 AM
Built for work.

For one point, please respond and identify this truck.
Title: Re: Wendax 1445
Post by: Wendax on December 24, 2014, 01:57:43 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on December 31, 2014, 02:22:53 AM
up again
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Post by: 4popoid on December 31, 2014, 02:38:57 AM
Manufactured in Europe?
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Post by: Wendax on December 31, 2014, 03:52:25 AM
Yes
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Post by: 4popoid on December 31, 2014, 11:36:12 PM
Manufactured in Switzerland?   
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 03:59:03 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 01, 2015, 04:03:51 AM
Manufactured in France?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 04:05:02 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 01, 2015, 04:20:20 AM
Manufactured in Germany?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 05:18:58 AM
No
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Post by: targhediferro on January 01, 2015, 07:11:45 AM
OM based?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 07:16:32 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 01, 2015, 12:36:39 PM
Manufactured in Italy?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 12:43:12 PM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on January 01, 2015, 01:12:43 PM
Another Austrian machine?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 01:17:18 PM
Yes
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Post by: targhediferro on January 01, 2015, 03:01:39 PM
Moguert?  It's Magyar...so I try Steyr?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 03:48:59 PM
Some call it a Steyr, but it was at least developed and first built by another company.
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Post by: 4popoid on January 01, 2015, 04:02:28 PM
ÖAF?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 04:29:36 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 01, 2015, 04:39:20 PM
A variation of the Puch Pinzgauer?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 05:14:14 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 01, 2015, 05:46:05 PM
Lohner?
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Post by: Wendax on January 01, 2015, 05:54:18 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 02, 2015, 01:11:52 AM
MAN Truck & Bus Austria AG?
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Post by: Wendax on January 02, 2015, 03:34:18 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on January 02, 2015, 04:01:44 AM
Running out of options.  Graf & Stift?
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Post by: Wendax on January 02, 2015, 05:27:02 AM
No

A hint: Take a closer look at the picture.  ;)
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Post by: Bill Murray on January 02, 2015, 06:49:57 AM
As you said, it seems to have been known as coming from two manufacturers.

It is essentially an updated Steyr RSO from WWII and was produced as the Saurer MotorMuli M30/60 and was apparently also developed for the Bundeswehr by Steyr as the Muli Steyr M80.  Both used Steyr engines. Yours is a civilian forestry tractor.

That is about all I could find.

Bill

Title: Re: Wendax 1445
Post by: Wendax on January 02, 2015, 08:38:19 AM
You found the right vehicle. The things are even a bit more complicated. It was initially built by the Motor-Muli Schuster, Hacker & Co KG. Later on Saurer and Steyr were involved in the production, so I have seen it as a Saurer, a Steyr or even a Saurer-Steyr Motor-Muli.
One mistake in your answer has to be corrected. It was never used by the Bundeswehr (German army), but by the Bundesheer (Austrian army).

One more point for you.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1445 - Motormuli
Post by: Bill Murray on January 02, 2015, 08:44:59 AM
OOPS!
Yes, the Austrian Army, not the German.  I tend to get my "Bundes" mixed up sometimes.

One of the articles I found said the vehicle could also be converted to wheels rather than tracks, not something
the RSO was set up for.  Do you know if this is true and do you have such a photo?

Bill
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 1445 - Motormuli
Post by: Wendax on January 02, 2015, 08:58:46 AM
Never heard of that wheel conversion, sorry.

A nice conversion was the Postbus Motormuli:
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Post by: Wendax on August 12, 2016, 04:17:53 PM
Another photo:
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Post by: Wendax on November 30, 2019, 04:01:50 PM
Quote from: Bill Murray on January 02, 2015, 08:44:59 AM
One of the articles I found said the vehicle could also be converted to wheels rather than tracks, not something
the RSO was set up for.  Do you know if this is true and do you have such a photo?
At least here is a 1956 magazine clipping about the Vienna Autosalon showing a wheel axle next to it.
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