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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2020, 08:41:49 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #26 on: January 15, 2020, 12:19:47 PM »
Looks like J. Rohrbacher to me
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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #27 on: January 15, 2020, 02:43:11 PM »
As Rohrbacher was completely owned by Saurer, I guess the coachbuilder I am looking for took a Saurer bus chassis and front as base for this truck. But thanks for pointing out the probable base chassis.

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #28 on: January 15, 2020, 03:00:43 PM »
As Rohrbacher was completely owned by Saurer, I guess the coachbuilder I am looking for took a Saurer bus chassis and front as base for this truck. But thanks for pointing out the probable base chassis.
Ah, I see. :sigh: That makes things a bit more difficult since all we're left to work with is the nondescript rear bodywork.
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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2020, 03:38:58 PM »
Does your source provide a year, and if so, is it 1950?

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #30 on: January 15, 2020, 04:45:02 PM »
Yes, younger than that

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #31 on: January 15, 2020, 04:59:30 PM »
1954?

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2020, 02:29:15 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #33 on: January 30, 2020, 02:21:45 AM »
up again

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #34 on: January 30, 2020, 03:40:41 AM »
Coachbuilder mentioned on AP before?

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #35 on: January 30, 2020, 05:37:30 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #36 on: January 30, 2020, 09:59:08 AM »
A similar truck on a Ö Saurer chassis.

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #37 on: January 30, 2020, 12:52:09 PM »
It is the same truck, I'd say.  :thumbsup:

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #38 on: March 01, 2020, 03:33:00 AM »
up to the Masters

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #39 on: May 13, 2020, 03:24:07 PM »
Schwarzmüller?

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #40 on: May 13, 2020, 04:15:43 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #41 on: May 14, 2020, 07:38:32 AM »
Brender-Werke, Wien

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #42 on: May 14, 2020, 08:23:19 AM »
No

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #43 on: May 26, 2020, 04:12:18 PM »
did you find the picture online?
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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #44 on: May 26, 2020, 04:14:41 PM »
Yes, but I doubt that it is available anymore.

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #45 on: May 26, 2020, 04:25:38 PM »
did you find any other references to this coachbuilder?
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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #46 on: May 27, 2020, 01:28:38 AM »
It looks as if they went bankrupt in 2006.

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #47 on: May 27, 2020, 03:56:56 AM »
was it located here? (I mean Vienna :))
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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #48 on: May 27, 2020, 04:32:35 AM »
Yes

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Re: Wendax 3091
« Reply #49 on: May 27, 2020, 06:48:19 AM »
did they built bodies until 2006 or by that time they were simply a "werkstatt"?
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