Author Topic: SOLVED: FW #286: Borgward MZ, body by Hall/Köln on B1000 chassis  (Read 940 times)

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Please identify this car: Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Approx. year?
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Re: FW #286
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2022, 05:03:13 PM »
Experts?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2022, 05:47:00 PM »
Anything to do with Freddie March?
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Re: FW #286
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2022, 02:40:39 AM »
No

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2022, 07:39:37 AM »
Opel Blitz, 1948,....by Miesen? :-\

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2022, 08:28:30 AM »
Sorry, no

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2022, 08:40:17 AM »
German?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2022, 10:15:37 AM »
Yes

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2022, 02:44:25 PM »
Post-War?
Ein Henschel zieht am Berg und ein Mercedes
an den Türen. (and an attempt of a translation):
A Henschel in rushing up the hill, wheras in a Mercedes wind is rushing through the doors. c/o norberthanke

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2022, 02:48:40 PM »
Borgward product?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2022, 03:51:57 PM »
Yes, it is. LOCKED for to find type? Coachbuilder? Approx. year?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2022, 05:51:08 PM »
Borgward 1 1/4 ton, 1950?
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Re: FW #286
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2022, 06:08:32 PM »
Not Hansa, but the approx. year is right

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2022, 06:10:27 PM »
Sorry, just altered the guess to Borgward (see above)!

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2022, 06:22:40 PM »
Oh, sorry:
Borgward: Yes
1 1/4 ton: No
1950: No, earlier

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #15 on: May 13, 2022, 06:29:05 PM »
1 1/5 ton?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2022, 06:30:52 PM »
No

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2022, 07:03:17 PM »
Oh, sorry:
Borgward: Yes
1 1/4 ton: No
1950: No, earlier
Sorry, FrontMan. I think I've made a mistake: 1 1/4 ton seems to be right (twin rear wheels), but is not part of the type designation
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Re: FW #286
« Reply #18 on: May 14, 2022, 06:11:09 AM »
B1250, from 1950 if it is wearing hub caps! I can't find the coachbuilder, though :bonk:

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2022, 06:41:20 AM »
Not B1250

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2022, 09:31:35 AM »
....o.k., but the B1000 (one ton) was available with double rears from June to August 1949. Is it one of those?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2022, 10:07:15 AM »
Yes, but this type had a special designation: B 1000 ..

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2022, 01:24:49 PM »
"1.t" is all I can find regarding designation.  Coachbuilder;   how about Pollmann?

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #23 on: May 14, 2022, 01:36:47 PM »
The two points behind 'B 1000', are spaceholders fot two letters
Pollmann: No

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Re: FW #286
« Reply #24 on: May 15, 2022, 03:19:43 AM »
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