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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2023 => Topic started by: sichel on December 10, 2022, 04:50:53 PM

Title: SOLVED: si_364 - Mercedes - 28/95 PS - by G. Auwärter jr. - midd 20s
Post by: sichel on December 10, 2022, 04:50:53 PM
This time only three short pieces of information are needed for the point: Manufacturer, type and coachbuilder.
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on December 17, 2022, 08:33:33 AM
Up to Experts.
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Post by: sichel on December 31, 2022, 07:49:06 AM
Up
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Post by: Fёdor on December 31, 2022, 08:45:03 AM
Mercedes ?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on December 31, 2022, 08:55:55 AM
Yes.
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Post by: Fёdor on January 01, 2023, 03:59:12 AM
German coachbuilder ?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 01, 2023, 06:53:08 AM
Yes
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Post by: Fёdor on January 02, 2023, 02:02:08 AM
12/32ps ?
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Post by: fromwien on January 02, 2023, 03:13:13 AM
28/50 PS?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 02, 2023, 05:47:03 AM
Neither nor.
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 02, 2023, 07:07:52 AM
22/40 PS ?
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Post by: sichel on January 02, 2023, 01:53:08 PM
No, it was a much stronger vehicle.
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Post by: fromwien on January 02, 2023, 03:45:36 PM
10/40/65 PS?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 02, 2023, 04:13:45 PM
Even stronger
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Post by: fromwien on January 03, 2023, 07:04:59 AM
28/95 PS?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 03, 2023, 08:26:14 AM
Yes, according to my source it is a 28/95 hp. Locked for you for three attempts to search the bodybuilder. I don't count searches by country or region.
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 03, 2023, 09:23:42 AM
I'm surprised, that this flatbed truck is equipped with a supercharged engine.
Czech coachwork?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 03, 2023, 10:11:13 AM
No Czech coachwork.
I was also amazed at this sporty base for a "pick-up". My source is an author I consider knowledgeable and reputable. The 28/95 hp did not have a compressor until 1922. There are pictures of examples with wooden wheels and also of untypical vents in the engine flaps. The superstructure was built in the mid-1920s, possibly giving a luxurious sports car that had grown old a reprieve. There were also examples of this after the Second World War.
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 03, 2023, 11:34:49 AM
German coachbuilder?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 03, 2023, 11:59:43 AM
Yes
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Post by: fromwien on January 03, 2023, 03:04:08 PM
From Bavaria?
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Post by: sichel on January 03, 2023, 03:25:42 PM
No.
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Post by: fromwien on January 04, 2023, 02:50:58 PM
From Berlin?
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Post by: sichel on January 04, 2023, 03:15:18 PM
No.
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Post by: fromwien on January 04, 2023, 03:39:16 PM
Stuttgart?
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Post by: sichel on January 04, 2023, 06:01:29 PM
Not then.
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Post by: fromwien on January 05, 2023, 04:24:49 AM
East Germany (ex-GDR)?
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Post by: sichel on January 05, 2023, 03:29:40 PM
No. Perhaps you misunderstood my last answer (error in the translation programme??). At the time the puzzle vehicle was created, the company was not located in Stuttgart.
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 05, 2023, 04:18:37 PM
Quote from: sichel on January 05, 2023, 03:29:40 PM
No. Perhaps you misunderstood my last answer (error in the translation programme??). At the time the puzzle vehicle was created, the company was not located in Stuttgart.
Oh, thank you very much. Yes, I misunderstood your previous answer about the Stuttgart-location of the coachbuilder
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 05, 2023, 04:44:29 PM
Not easy for me. I will try at first "Vetter"?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 05, 2023, 05:07:52 PM
No
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 05, 2023, 05:48:41 PM
Have no idea, is it Auwärter?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 05, 2023, 05:59:42 PM
Yes, which Auwärter?
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Post by: fromwien on January 05, 2023, 06:13:19 PM
I think, the photo of the puzzle car must have been taken in the courtyard of Gottlob Auwärter senior's company, situated in Kaltentalerstraße 9, Stuttgart-Möhringen. Same workshop gates pictured at the attached photo.

The attached photo describes, that from 1937 on, coachwork had to be built up outside the workshop of the Auwärter OHG (Ernst und Paul Auwärter), because the interior was too small for it
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 05, 2023, 06:43:15 PM
Thank you for the interesting photo!
But who made the body of the puzzle vehicle?
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: fromwien on January 05, 2023, 07:03:20 PM
Gottlob sr. early recognized the signs of the times and sent his son Gottlob jr. 1922 as a journeyman to 'Reutter-coachwork-company' in the west of Stuttgart. After his return in 1925, Gottlob jr. constructed his first delivery and flatbed trucks from used cars, together with his brother Otto in the father's workshop.
Title: Re: si_364
Post by: sichel on January 05, 2023, 07:36:50 PM
Thank you for the short history of the Auwärters. Btw: On 01.04.1942 Möhringen was incorporated into Stuttgart.
Yes, Gottlob jr. made this superstructure in the mid-20s. So it is your next point.
Title: Re: SOLVED: si_364 - Mercedes - 28/95 PS - by G. Auwärter jr. - midd 20s
Post by: fromwien on January 06, 2023, 04:14:01 AM
Thank you for puzzle and point