A teardrop carrier.
For one point, please respond and identify the coachbuilder.
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German?
No
Italian?
No
French?
No
USA?
No
British?
dutch?
Neither British nor Dutch
swiss?
No
let,s give Belgium a try?
Yes, from Belgium
was it built by a well-known bus manufacturer?
It had its appearance on AP before.
was the vehicle used for promotional purposes to sell a product perhaps?
Yes
please excuse my ignorance about what beka or maes mean,s,I don,t know their language,is one of those words the name of the product their promoting?
One word is the name of the product and the other one part of the solution.
Locked for you.
is it beka photography?
Quote from: Wendax on January 09, 2015, 02:33:46 AM
For one point, please respond and identify the coachbuilder.
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beka publicity car, and coachbuilder maes Louis aine at brussel autoshow 1951
Yes, it is a publicity car for Beka (Can any fellow puzzler from the Benelux countries enlighten us about their trade?), built by Louis Maes from Antwerpen (Ainé means the elder). If I decipher the letters at the front correctly, it was built on a Ford chassis.
Hi Gerd:
Since I do not seem to be able to solve any autopuzzles lately, I have been doing research on the
background or history of some of the puzzle vehicles.
In this case, Beka was and is a famous bed and bedding company in Brussels. As well, a German firm Beka
made and makes today kitchen utensils which are sold throughout Europe. As your photo is not all that
clear, I cannot say what the photos on the vehicle represent but it is probably one of the two companies.
Bill
Thank you, Bill! It has to be beds then, as I found this Brussels picture with the same logo:
Nailed it!!!!
Good job Gerd. A half hour on Google did not bring up the logo in the proper form for me.
Bill
It was identified at the belgian transportmuseum site, which is now closed. I thought Gerd would move it on Sunday, but alas it was Saturday night fever...
Aargh!!!!!, Patrick.
A few months ago when I was doing my "round the world tour" of smaller European and South American countries websites,
I found that Belgian site and only "cherry picked" a couple dozen or so of the photos I was immediately interested in.
I bookmarked the main site and several individual marque threads intending to return and finish going through the whole site at a later date. When I did so yesterday, I discovered, as you perhaps already knew, the site was gone.
Do you know if someone else has picked up the site under a new name? It was a gold mine of information and I hate to see it completely gone.
Bill
Quote from: Bill Murray on January 25, 2015, 12:03:41 PM
Aargh!!!!!, Patrick.
A few months ago when I was doing my "round the world tour" of smaller European and South American countries websites,
I found that Belgian site and only "cherry picked" a couple dozen or so of the photos I was immediately interested in.
I bookmarked the main site and several individual marque threads intending to return and finish going through the whole site at a later date. When I did so yesterday, I discovered, as you perhaps already knew, the site was gone.
Do you know if someone else has picked up the site under a new name? It was a gold mine of information and I hate to see it completely gone.
Bill
Unfortunately not, Bill. This was a very well-organized site and I can't understand why it was closed, as there is plenty of memory on the cloud. Some people seem to be really stupid.
Hi again Patrick:
By some stroke of luck, I had saved one page as an html file and it was still there, one on FN trucks.
I was able to capture their email address and I just this minute sent them an email asking if they
were going to restore the site at some future date or replace it with another site.
I will let you know what their answer is.
Bill