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Presto on the roof of the Chemnitz Presto (later Auto Union) factory
« on: November 04, 2010, 10:11:55 AM »
1 point: which make?
1 additional point: what´s the story of the buildings after this company was merged?
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2010, 08:14:03 AM »
The expertise, please...
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2010, 05:43:35 PM »
Is it Austrian???
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2010, 06:30:05 PM »
Not austrian.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2010, 07:57:34 PM »
USA?
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2010, 01:58:07 AM »
Not american though it looks very much alike.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2010, 07:01:01 PM »
Is it German?
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2010, 02:32:28 AM »
Definitly yes.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2010, 06:37:50 AM »
Is it from one of the better known makes?
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2010, 07:04:17 AM »
No, but the company that has bought the buildings is very well known.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2010, 01:14:18 PM »
There´s a current puzzle that features the same make.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2010, 04:49:03 PM »
Did Volkswagen buy the buildings?
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2010, 03:10:46 AM »
No. Volkswagen in Wolfsburg has been built from scratch and has been the biggest car factory in the world for decades.

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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2010, 08:05:12 AM »
How about Daimler-Benz?  ???
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2010, 06:24:34 AM »
No.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2010, 11:14:39 AM »
I keep meaning to compile a list of cars with pointed radiators, but somehow I never get round to it. :-[

But I think this car is a Presto. I'm not sure which one, but it could be the Luxus model from about 1912 or 1913.

It's standing on the roof of the Presto-Werke in Chemnitz, Saxony. Presto began by making bicycles, then built small numbers of Delahayes under licence, before producing their own designs. Financial problems in the 1920s led to various mergers, and they were taken over in 1927 by the NAG group (Nationale Automobil-Gesellschaft), based in Berlin.

The Chemnitz factory was sold to Auto-Union in about 1934. It was badly damaged during WW2, and Auto-Union production was eventually relocated to Ingolstadt in Bavaria.
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Re: grob: on the rooftop
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2010, 11:47:50 AM »
And this is what I´d call a perfect answer!

I do not know the exact model myself.

But I did not ask for the model, just for the company and what happened to its buildings.

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I keep meaning to compile a list of cars with pointed radiators, but somehow I never get round to it. Embarrassed

This "Spitzkühler" (pointed radiator) theme is just endless - good luck with it...
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Re: Presto on the roof of the Chemnitz Presto (later Auto Union) factory
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2010, 05:18:38 PM »
I spent a long time getting nowhere with this, but I guess I was just lucky in the end - I couldn't find the puzzle picture, but found the small photo on the left below. This is the Presto factory in 1910. It was obviously extended quite a bit before the puzzle drawing was made, but despite the different viewpoint, from the general features and arrangement of windows, etc., it was recognisably the same building.





I really should get out more..... ::)
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Re: Presto on the roof of the Chemnitz Presto (later Auto Union) factory
« Reply #18 on: November 30, 2010, 12:01:03 PM »
Similar but slightly different design in the current (December) issue of the Spanish oldtimer magazine 'Motor Clásico':
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