Topic: GG-117 BMW Motoporter/Mötoporter

[guido66]

Twice no, we will get there shortly....

[Allemano]

Porsche?

[Paul Jaray]

Porsche?

It was my 1st idea, but there was a pretty militar project.
BMW?

[Allemano]

Maybe I've found it in one of my BMW books...
Could it be the BMW Isetta engined Motoporter?
(though my source reports this car was built in Zurich/Switzerland and the pic is showing another configuration.  )

[guido66]

A BMW it is! 

Alas the site where I found this is still partially under construction. I hope it will reappear there with a larger photo and some more details.

A part of the original caption: "ein Kleinlaster als Frontlenker von BMW. Das Baujahr ist unbekannt, aber wahrscheinlich aus den ersten 50er Jahren."

If someone else can dig up more with some form of proof, I'd be happy to give another point.

[Allemano]

Here's a scan from my book:
(what do you think?)

[guido66]

I think you have a well deserved point. The Motoporter company was based in Switzerland indeed. I found another reference for a Motoporter business in Hanau, Germany. But I don't know if there is any relation there.

[grobmotorix]

I knew I´ve seen this thing before...
Here´s a scan from my ad collection. Must have been from the early 1970s

Exactly it´s called the "MÖtoporter", which sound quite strange as the Ö is pronounced like the "eu" in "cordon bleu".

So this is a later version, not the swiss one, but the german one.

[Allemano]

So it has to change to Mötoporter, then.

Maybe it was the German distributor of this product as Hanau is a German city at the river Main.

[guido66]

Wow, this thing even evolved over time 

[guido66]

"Schröder, damals Chef der Firma "Motoporter AG, Hanau/Zürich", die einen Einfachst-Laster für Entwicklungsländer plante, wollte aus branchenfremden Gründen mit Ertl in Kontakt kommen. Ihm war zu Ohren gekommen, daß sich auf dem Buttersektor vielversprechende Geschäfte machen ließen."

"Diese Zuwendung soll der Motoporter AG im Hinblick darauf gewährt

werden, daß das Produktionsprogramm der Motoporter AG die relativ

billige Herstellung eines für die deutsche Landwirtschaft und

FDP-Minister Ertl Dünne Dementis die Entwicklungsländer besonders

bedeutsamen kleinen Transportfahrzeugs, nämlich des "Motoporter"

vorsieht. Die Zuwendung soll es gleichzeitig der Motoporter AG

ermöglichen, ein von ihr mit der Einfuhr- und Vorratsstelle für Öle

und Fette abzuschließendes erstes Teil-Exportgeschäft über 2000 t

durchzuführen.
"

[grobmotorix]

now it turns into absurd... 

[Allemano]

The car of the brochure obviousely hadn't that 300cc Isetta engine. Strange that they declared themselves to be a young (innovative) and small company as it seems there where at least one older BMW engined version of that car, which wasn't state of the art at the beginning of the seventies.

[guido66]

I found a reference this car from 1968. I guess the full story is in this book:

[DeAutogids.nl]

The car of the brochure obviousely hadn't that 300cc Isetta engine. Strange that they declared themselves to be a young (innovative) and small company as it seems there where at least one older BMW engined version of that car, which wasn't state of the art at the beginning of the seventies.

It has a Ejnzylinder motor? Maybe Mötoporter was a typo as well?

[Wendax]

A brochure: