Solved: Wendax 3176 - IFA W 180

Wendax · April 04, 2020, 04:05:26 AM

No one inside.

For one point, please respond and identify this bus.

Wendax · April 11, 2020, 03:31:15 AM

up

Wendax · April 25, 2020, 04:31:44 AM

up again

pguillem · April 25, 2020, 09:24:25 AM

Any relation with the Zil-159 ?

Wendax · April 25, 2020, 09:41:52 AM

None that I know of

pguillem · April 25, 2020, 12:00:40 PM

German ?

Wendax · April 25, 2020, 01:16:35 PM

Yes

pguillem · April 26, 2020, 09:15:51 AM

Krupp ?

Wendax · April 26, 2020, 03:41:50 PM

No

pguillem · April 26, 2020, 04:08:17 PM

Büssing by Buhne ?

Wendax · April 27, 2020, 01:47:59 AM

No

pguillem · April 27, 2020, 12:05:51 PM

Orion ?

Wendax · April 27, 2020, 12:32:25 PM

No

pguillem · April 27, 2020, 08:37:05 PM

IFA-Karosseriewerk Halle W 80 ?

Wendax · 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.

pguillem · 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.

Wendax · 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.

pguillem · April 28, 2020, 01:18:31 PM

So, W stands for "Werdau" ?

Wendax · 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.

pguillem · April 28, 2020, 03:12:29 PM

A short lesson of history. Thanks !

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Solved: Wendax 3176 - IFA W 180