Solved TGF-158: Mercedes-Benz 460/500 landaulet by Metallo (H), 1928

targhediferro · July 10, 2013, 06:33:02 AM

Make, model, year and coachbuilder for a point.

ropat53 · July 10, 2013, 04:12:39 PM

The car is a Mercedes Benz, I'll guess it's on the light truck chassis L1000 from 1930 and the coachbuilder probably is Reutter.

targhediferro · July 10, 2013, 04:19:11 PM

The car is actually a Mercedes-Benz, but that's the only right part of your answer, sorry.

ropat53 · July 10, 2013, 04:20:55 PM

Mercedes Benz 260?

Bill Murray · July 10, 2013, 04:41:44 PM

Mmmmm.....

I think Ropat may be correct, but the line where the cowl meets the windscreen fits a 460/500 Nürberg a little better.
Also, may I ask, is this a Taxi??
I have had no luck with the coach builder other than Reutter built similar bodies as Ropat has already mentioned.

targhediferro · July 10, 2013, 06:03:41 PM

Not a 260, neither 460...bigger. I don't know if it was a taxi, but I think not.

Bill Murray · July 10, 2013, 06:27:40 PM

OK, let us try a 630 type with body by Neuss.
The shape of the radiator does not work but the body type is quite similar.

targhediferro · July 10, 2013, 06:30:39 PM

Well, as I have many prooves that both Bill and Ropat are great Experts, I checked my source about the model of this car...I'm not sure, but I suppose Bill could be right when He said 460/500 even if the caption of the picture I found tells something different. I hope this could help you.

targhediferro · July 10, 2013, 06:32:31 PM

Not Neuss...about the model that's not the one I have, but as I told you I'm no more sure about it.

ropat53 · July 10, 2013, 06:36:16 PM

I think the largest Mercedes with a flat radiator is the 460/500 Nürburg.
Is the coach builder German?

4popoid · July 10, 2013, 07:03:43 PM

1928/29 Mercedes Benz 460 (W08) Nürburg landaulet by Voll & Ruhrbeck?

targhediferro · July 11, 2013, 12:47:10 AM

Not a German coachbuilder, so not Voll & Ruhrbeck.

4popoid · July 11, 2013, 02:36:47 AM

Perhaps a Czech coachbuilder: 1928/29 Mercedes Benz 460 (W08) Nürburg landaulet by Sodomka?

targhediferro · July 11, 2013, 03:15:32 AM

Not Czeck, so not Sodomka.

4popoid · July 11, 2013, 01:31:30 PM

Eastern (or central) European coachbuilder?

targhediferro · July 11, 2013, 05:29:45 PM

Eastern.

ropat53 · July 11, 2013, 05:54:34 PM

Mercedes Benz with body by Metallo Karosszériagyár RT - Budapest

targhediferro · July 11, 2013, 06:23:57 PM

Correct again...You have to receive your third point from me today, when I will be able to do!

ropat53 · July 11, 2013, 07:45:52 PM

Thanks once more. I don't think the car is a 460/500 Nürburg, these have a curved bar between the headlamps, or no bar at all.
I still think it may be built on a light truck chassis L 1000, they were used to make cars by many coach builders, see ambulance below.

pnegyesi · July 12, 2013, 05:20:16 AM

You like my site, don't you :) ? The guy who gave me the photo did not identify the model, but I believe it was an L1000.

Metallo was a very interesting company, experimenting with steel bodies.

ropat53 · July 12, 2013, 05:47:18 PM

Quote from: pnegyesi on July 12, 2013, 05:20:16 AM
You like my site, don't you :) ? The guy who gave me the photo did not identify the model, but I believe it was an L1000.

Yes I do enjoy your site very much, since I joined Autopuzzles a few months ago I have learnt a lot about many cars I had no knowledge about. I must admit I was very surprised about the Hungarian car industry, especially the quantity and quality of the coach builders like Nagy Géza and Lajos Zupka, unfortunately one tends to associate the country with the dull years of communism.

Paul Jaray · July 13, 2013, 03:11:44 AM

Point added (3\3)

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Solved TGF-158: Mercedes-Benz 460/500 landaulet by Metallo (H), 1928