Solved: GTE 803 - Lyddi 4-9 ps 1909

Started by gte4289, March 27, 2025, 12:46:43 AM

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Please identify this car for a point.

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Open to Rookies and Experts.

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C. Benz & Söhne ?

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Lyddi 4-9ps Viersitzer 1909

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Now, this got me interested as I hadn't heard of that brand before. After a bit of searching I found out that it was built by the Anhaltische Fahrzeugwerkstätte Robert Krause in Dessau. In my books that company is always said to have built their friction-driven car under the brand Dessavia (Latin for Dessau). We've had a puzzle car identified as Dessavia before: https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2023-56/si_536. And I know the book where the identification as a Dessavia comes from. But as you could see in the "Dessavia" thread this motorbike made to look like a car was sold by the Anhaltische Werkstätte as the Elektrik (I also found Elektrikwagen) and isn't friction-driven at all. Searching for Dessavia I did not find any sources from 1907-1910 referring to such a car. I wonder whether the phantom Dessavia was in fact the Lyddi car. But where might the car brand Dessavia have come from?

Below you find two pictures of the 1908 Lyddi 8 PS two-seater and a slightly darker version of the puzzle picture, the Lyddi 9 PS four-seater from 1909. The difference in the engine output may have been for promotional reasons, a 1908 source already states 8.34 PS for the engine.

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Quote from: Wendax on June 21, 2025, 08:05:35 AM
Now, this got me interested as I hadn't heard of that brand before. After a bit of searching I found out that it was built by the Anhaltische Fahrzeugwerkstätte Robert Krause in Dessau...
I went down the very same rabbit hole when I found the puzzle car and, like you, was unable to find any period evidence for the Dessavia brand.

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I don't know if these cars in the pictures are related to the Lyddi brand.

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