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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2023 => Topic started by: sichel on October 18, 2023, 01:34:15 PM

Title: SOLVED: si_509 - Wegmann - Akku-Bus - 1951
Post by: sichel on October 18, 2023, 01:34:15 PM

Not enough space for luggage on the bus?
Please state the name of this bus and also its year of construction.

Title: Re: si_509
Post by: sichel on October 25, 2023, 10:13:20 AM

Up to the Experts.

Title: Re: si_509
Post by: sichel on November 09, 2023, 11:12:58 AM

Up to the Professionals.

Title: Re: si_509
Post by: pguillem on November 09, 2023, 11:15:39 AM

Wegmann  Elektrobus, 1951

Title: Re: si_509
Post by: sichel on November 09, 2023, 11:20:18 AM

Yes, it's a Wegmann bus with electric drive. Please describe the special version of the drive in more detail. Locked for you.

Title: Re: si_509
Post by: pguillem on November 10, 2023, 12:46:30 PM

Here is the description found at the Oskar Mathieu Archiv :

A battery bus that is “independent of rail, overhead lines and fuel,” presented Wegmann & Co., wagon factory and vehicle construction,
in 1951. The electric drive was powered of this bus (capacity: 56 people) from Afa batteries that are in were carried on a trailer with twin tires. The rest is electrical
Equipment came from the Hans > Still motor factory, Hamburg, and Schaltbau G.m.b.H., Munich.
Withone battery charge, 80 kilometers could be driven, and the vehicle's maximum speed was 35 km/h. The Wegmann battery bus
didn't make it past being a prototype out. However, they became more widespread the Wegmann trolleybuses (capacity: 90 people) and Wegmann light metal bus trailers manufactured in the early fifties became. The Wegmann company exists still today and is especially in the area active in defense technology.

Title: Re: si_509
Post by: sichel on November 13, 2023, 07:41:57 AM

It couldn't be more detailed! I was concerned with the fact that the batteries were carried in a trailer.
After the presentation at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1951, various test drives were carried out in Bavaria in 1952. These were quite successful, but no orders were placed and the prototype was scrapped in 1955.
As Wegmann had been active in the construction of rail vehicles since the 1930s, eight ETA 176 battery railcars were produced here from 1952 to 1954 (see photo).
MAN took up the idea of the battery trailer again in the 1970s (see photos). From 1974 to 1988, a total of 22 SL-E models were in operation in Mönchengladbach and Düsseldorf.
Here is your next point.

Title: Re: SOLVED: si_509 - Wegmann - Akku-Bus - 1951
Post by: pguillem on November 13, 2023, 09:09:11 AM

Thanks for all these additional details !