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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2022 => Topic started by: fromwien on September 02, 2022, 03:05:23 PM

Title: SOLVED: FW #362: Aichi Giant Star AA5B 1952 by Aichi Machine Industry Co. Ltd.
Post by: fromwien on September 02, 2022, 03:05:23 PM
Please identify this car in ALL its details
Title: Re: FW #362
Post by: fromwien on September 22, 2022, 02:12:28 PM
Experts?
Title: Re: FW #362
Post by: BattlePorQ on September 22, 2022, 02:54:28 PM
Indonesia?
Title: Re: FW #362
Post by: Rusty Chrome on September 22, 2022, 02:57:42 PM
It's a minibus from Giant of Japan from the late 1940s probably based on their AA13F chassis
Title: Re: FW #362
Post by: fromwien on September 22, 2022, 05:02:50 PM
Quote from: BattlePorQ on September 22, 2022, 02:54:28 PM
Indonesia?
No
Quote from: Rusty Chrome on September 22, 2022, 02:57:42 PM
It's a minibus from Giant of Japan from the late 1940s probably based on their AA13F chassis
Japan is right and Giant part of the name of the threewheeler
Title: Re: FW #362
Post by: Rusty Chrome on September 22, 2022, 07:52:54 PM
Giant were a brand of three-wheeled vehicles from the Aichi Machine Industry. The company later made cars under the Cony brand. I'm pretty sure this is the Giant AA5B Sedan, the Giant Star from 1950
Title: Re: FW #362
Post by: fromwien on September 23, 2022, 04:41:38 AM
Yes, this is what my source (nearly completely) says too: Aichi Giant Star AA5B, 1952 by Aichi Machine Industry Co. Ltd. (former Shin Aichi Entrepreneur Co. Ltd., 1947-1952).
The source additional mentions, that the Aichi Giants were the first Japanese commercial threewheelers with fully enclosed bodywork
Attached another (better) picture of the puzzle-car and of its predecessor
Title: Re: SOLVED: FW #362: Aichi Giant Star AA5B 1952 by Aichi Machine Industry Co. Ltd.
Post by: fromwien on September 23, 2022, 04:52:03 AM
One more attachment with a copy of a 1952 ad or brochure

At first glance I wanted to ask for the engines used in Giant-threewheelers, but left it out as too special: The AA1-type has been powered by a watercooled(!) 19 HP-636ccm-OHV(!)-engine, superseded  later on by watercooled(!) 855ccm and 1145ccm opposed-two-cylinder(!)-OHV-engines