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Title: SOLVED: FW #646: Hansa-Lloyd Merkur IV N (Borgward), Harmening bodywork, 1940
Post by: fromwien on October 17, 2024, 02:06:29 PM
Please be so kind and identify this bus: Make? Type? Coachbuilder? Year?
Title: Re: FW #646
Post by: fromwien on October 31, 2024, 05:37:25 PM
Experts?
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Post by: sichel on October 31, 2024, 05:54:47 PM
Opel Blitz?
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Post by: fromwien on October 31, 2024, 06:38:52 PM
Not a Opel Blitz
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Post by: marmer on October 31, 2024, 07:54:37 PM
Borgward?
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Post by: fromwien on November 01, 2024, 03:55:27 AM
Yes
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Post by: marmer on November 01, 2024, 09:51:43 AM
German coachbuilder?
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Post by: fromwien on November 01, 2024, 10:10:58 AM
Yes
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Post by: marmer on November 01, 2024, 10:52:40 AM
Ludewig?
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Post by: fromwien on November 01, 2024, 06:06:00 PM
No
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Post by: marmer on November 01, 2024, 07:14:52 PM
Kassböhrer?
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Post by: fromwien on November 02, 2024, 04:14:07 AM
No
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Post by: sichel on November 02, 2024, 06:16:00 AM
Ottenbacher?
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Post by: fromwien on November 02, 2024, 06:35:40 AM
No
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Post by: marmer on November 03, 2024, 03:52:20 PM
Drögmöller?
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Post by: fromwien on November 04, 2024, 03:10:11 AM
No
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Post by: sichel on November 04, 2024, 03:39:00 AM
P. Bauer?
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Post by: fromwien on November 04, 2024, 08:35:17 AM
No
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Post by: marmer on November 05, 2024, 04:33:39 PM
Vetter?
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Post by: fromwien on November 05, 2024, 05:19:37 PM
No
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Post by: marmer on November 05, 2024, 05:24:37 PM
Harmening?
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Post by: fromwien on November 05, 2024, 05:43:37 PM
Yes, Borgward with Harmening bodywork.
LOCKED for you for three attempts to find type and year
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Post by: marmer on November 06, 2024, 10:13:30 AM
BO 2000, 1952?
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Post by: fromwien on November 06, 2024, 10:31:30 AM
Not BO 2000, not 1952
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Post by: marmer on November 06, 2024, 10:51:06 AM
BO 3000, 1949?
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Post by: fromwien on November 06, 2024, 11:15:58 AM
Not BO 3000, not 1949
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Post by: marmer on November 06, 2024, 11:21:12 AM
BO 2500, 1954?
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Post by: fromwien on November 06, 2024, 12:05:11 PM
Not BO 2500, not 1954
UNLOCKED
Open to all again
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Post by: marmer on November 06, 2024, 12:25:48 PM
BO 4000, 1951?
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Post by: fromwien on November 06, 2024, 04:40:52 PM
Not BO 4000, not 1951
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Post by: marmer on November 06, 2024, 05:29:03 PM
BO 4500, 1953?
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Post by: fromwien on November 06, 2024, 05:57:19 PM
Not BO 4500, not 1953
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Post by: marmer on November 06, 2024, 06:16:29 PM
BO 1500, 1950?
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Post by: fromwien on November 07, 2024, 03:36:09 AM
Not BO 1500, not 1950
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Post by: marmer on November 07, 2024, 10:00:44 AM
Is it prewar/wartime?
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Post by: fromwien on November 07, 2024, 01:18:29 PM
Wartime
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Post by: marmer on November 07, 2024, 01:24:47 PM
Borgward 5-ton chassis?
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Post by: fromwien on November 07, 2024, 02:10:02 PM
No
But sorry, I have to correct my answers, as I found some incorrections in my source:
1) The chassis is prewar!
2) Bodywork prewar or wartime
So please be so kind and look for a Hansa-Lloyd prewar chassis type
Again LOCKED for you for three trials
Title: Re: FW #646
Post by: marmer on November 07, 2024, 02:49:49 PM
Hansa-Lloyd Merkur IV?
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Post by: fromwien on November 07, 2024, 03:16:00 PM
Yes! Sorry for inconveniences
Title: Re: SOLVED: FW #646: Hansa-Lloyd Merkur IV N (Borgward), Hamening bodywork, 1940
Post by: marmer on November 07, 2024, 03:19:49 PM
My source shows 1936 to 1939; I don't know if it's possible to narrow it down any further than that.
Title: Re: SOLVED: FW #646: Hansa-Lloyd Merkur IV N (Borgward), Hamening bodywork, 1940
Post by: fromwien on November 07, 2024, 03:39:44 PM
I agree to you about the date of building the chassis. From 1938 onwards, the type designations have changed and the vehicles were called Borgward. I don't know the exact date, when the bodywork was built by Harmening. The puzzle-bus was in service of the "Reichsbahn" in Austria in 1940