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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2020 => Topic started by: Wendax on April 04, 2020, 04:05:26 AM

Title: Solved: Wendax 3176 - IFA W 180
Post by: Wendax on April 04, 2020, 04:05:26 AM
No one inside.

For one point, please respond and identify this bus.
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 11, 2020, 03:31:15 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 25, 2020, 04:31:44 AM
up again
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Post by: pguillem on April 25, 2020, 09:24:25 AM
Any relation with the Zil-159 ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 25, 2020, 09:41:52 AM
None that I know of
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Post by: pguillem on April 25, 2020, 12:00:40 PM
German ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 25, 2020, 01:16:35 PM
Yes
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Post by: pguillem on April 26, 2020, 09:15:51 AM
Krupp ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 26, 2020, 03:41:50 PM
No
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Post by: pguillem on April 26, 2020, 04:08:17 PM
Büssing by Buhne ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2020, 01:47:59 AM
No
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Post by: pguillem on April 27, 2020, 12:05:51 PM
Orion ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 27, 2020, 12:32:25 PM
No
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Post by: pguillem on April 27, 2020, 08:37:05 PM
IFA-Karosseriewerk Halle W 80 ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2020, 01:26:00 AM
Quote from: pguillem on April 27, 2020, 08:37:05 PM
IFA-Karosseriewerk Halle W 80 ?
Almost there. One digit is missing in the number and please add what the W stands for. Locked for you.
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: pguillem on April 28, 2020, 12:06:28 PM
Looking more attentively at the drawing, I read W 180 (or 480 ?).

But I wonder about the meaning of the W. Is it Werk ? Karosseriewerk was already mentioned. Wartburg ? Wartburg is known fort its cars. Or Werdau ? I'm puzzled, as I don't find much info about Karosseriewerk Halle.
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2020, 12:18:26 PM
W 180 is correct. The W has the same meaning as in IFA W 50 or the W 500 bus. ;)
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Post by: pguillem on April 28, 2020, 01:18:31 PM
So, W stands for "Werdau" ?
Title: Re: Wendax 3176
Post by: Wendax on April 28, 2020, 02:51:28 PM
Yes, that's it. The development of the W 180 came to a sudden end when the Comecon decided in 1956 that there would be no more large trucks and buses to be produced in the GDR. As the Werdau factories were already renamed from Lowa to IFA Kraftfahrzeugwerk Ernst Grube in 1952, the W 180 would have been an IFA.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 3176 - IFA W 180
Post by: pguillem on April 28, 2020, 03:12:29 PM
A short lesson of history.  Thanks !
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