Enigma Variations (Postwar edition)

[Wendax]

We are not alone 

[Wendax]

Another one added to complete the dozen.

[Paul Jaray]

#9- "Diese Aufnahmen sind in Elsfleth an der Hunte aufgenommen worden und zwar von der dortigen Hafenpier".
I tried to translate this line and I got the general meaning but nothing more.

[Wendax]

#9- "Diese Aufnahmen sind in Elsfleth an der Hunte aufgenommen worden und zwar von der dortigen Hafenpier".
I tried to translate this line and I got the general meaning but nothing more.

It just means that this picture was taken in the harbour area of Elsfleth, which is a town at the Hunte river. No information about the car, unfortunately.

[Paul Jaray]

Grazie!

[Carnut]

I've got a couple more pictures of your Enigma No. 7, which I've posted below.
All I know is that it's a home-built special built in the old GDR and registered there in 1950.
I don't know what the basis was, but it looks like it might have been an EMW?

[Wendax]

That's a great find and worth a point just for providing the pictures. According to the registration plates it is East German, sometimes between 1945 and 1953. I don't think that there is a then new EMW underneath, but a prewar chassis. The hubcaps and wheels are most similar to those of the Hansa 1100. The fact that there is a stock Hansa behind it could underline this assumption.

[Carnut]

Thanks!
I've try digging a bit further but come up with zilch.
I'll keep looking though!

[Wendax]

Another picture of Albert Hahne's car (#2):

[Oguerrerob]

10 this one appears in the mrscharroo gallery as VW Unikum +- 1950
"The name of the builder of this homemade car is not known but the plate indicates that he lived in or near Ottweiler, Saarland in Germany near the French border. The vehicle is probably built on a VW Kübelwagen chassis. The VW emblem is shown clearly. The split hood flap suggests the idea of a front luggage compartment. The car might be rear engined. The doors are from the Renault 4CV and the headlights from a Panhard Dyna."
And colorized looks this way

[Wendax]

Yes, that is what the source says and how far we got when Carnut posted this one as a single puzzle: www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=22050
Unikum just means that it is unique.

[Wendax]

The unsolved puzzle pictures restored

[Wendax]

I came across another photo of enigma 7:

(The license plate is from Saxony-Anhalt.)

[Wendax]

Open for all, not just Pros and Feature Writers.

[pguillem]

#10 is a Volkswagen Eigenbau Unikum from Saarland

"Das Fahrzeug ist auf einem VW-Fahrgestell aufge- baut, der stolze Erbauer zeigt es ja mit dem VW- Emblem deutlich an. Die ungewöhnlichen Radkappen sollen wohl die Radnaben der VW- Vorderachse verdecken. Das Fehlen jeglicher Kühllufteinlässe an der Wagenfront ist typisch für ein Fahrzeug mit Heckmotor. Außerdem deutet die geteilte Haubenklappe auf die Idee eines vorderen Kofferraums hin. Da nur rund zwei Prozent der bis Kriegsende gebauten VW-Fahrzeuge Limousinen waren, handelt es sich mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit um ein Kübelwagen-Fahrgestell (siehe oben unter a). Damals hätte wohl kein Saarländer eine KdF- Limousine "geschlachtet". Die Türen stammen vom Renault 4CV, die Scheinwerfer sind eine Anleihe vom Panhard Dyna X. Der Rest ist einem kreativen Blechkünstler zu verdanken."

[Wendax]

Yes, that is what the source says and how far we got when Carnut posted this one as a single puzzle: www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=22050
Unikum just means that it is unique.

Still looking for its builder. 

[pguillem]

#10 is a Volkswagen Eigenbau Unikum from Saarland

"Das Fahrzeug ist auf einem VW-Fahrgestell aufge- baut, der stolze Erbauer zeigt es ja mit dem VW- Emblem deutlich an. Die ungewöhnlichen Radkappen sollen wohl die Radnaben der VW- Vorderachse verdecken. Das Fehlen jeglicher Kühllufteinlässe an der Wagenfront ist typisch für ein Fahrzeug mit Heckmotor. Außerdem deutet die geteilte Haubenklappe auf die Idee eines vorderen Kofferraums hin. Da nur rund zwei Prozent der bis Kriegsende gebauten VW-Fahrzeuge Limousinen waren, handelt es sich mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit um ein Kübelwagen-Fahrgestell (siehe oben unter a). Damals hätte wohl kein Saarländer eine KdF- Limousine "geschlachtet". Die Türen stammen vom Renault 4CV, die Scheinwerfer sind eine Anleihe vom Panhard Dyna X. Der Rest ist einem kreativen Blechkünstler zu verdanken."

Oops ! I didn't see Oguerrob answer.  I don't understand, as MsScharoo's picture was pretty visible...

[Carnut]

It was actually puzzled by me here:

http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=22050.msg233669#msg233669

but I didn't know what the builder was, just what the source of some of the parts was, which is what oguerrerob has repeated...
And in that thread there's a link back to this thread!

[Wendax]

Black Hole

[Wendax]

Enigma #7 gone camping some years later (with GDR numberplates):

[Wendax]

Some more information about enigma #2: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/features-stories-and-photos/eigenbau-of-the-month/msg431233/#msg431233

[pnegyesi]

Please don't solve my PN1160

As Wendax kindly pointed out it is his Enigma 8.
From Wagen und Karosseriebau, April, 1951

Ein schnittiger Sportwagen der Firma Wille, Hamburg-Harburg

[Wendax]

  I knew the first two letters of the coachbuilder's name, I knew that my enigma picture was taken by a Hamburg photographer, and my parents-in-law live in the same village just two streets away from where Wille was located until some years ago. But I didn't draw the connection.

Two well-earned points for you, Pal. I think it's okay, if I add my unmodified picture to your thread https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/rookie-autopuzzles/pn-1160/, so you can close it as solved.

[pnegyesi]

Thank you.

I am now back home from the Deutsches Nationalbibliothek. It was a week well spent

[Wendax]

Some more information about enigma #7: https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/features-stories-and-photos/eigenbau-of-the-month/msg491774/#msg491774