Topic: JC But What Is It This Time? - Solved - Goliath from dealer Amko

[DeAutogids]

For one point, tell me the picture shows:

[DeAutogids]

No replies, so I will move it to the experts.

[Tuckeroo]

Goliath? Goliath Pionier?

[DeAutogids]

I believe it is not

[DeAutogids]

I suppose the pro's know

[Wendax]

I have a very similar car in a book as a Goliath Pionier with Indian taxi coachwork. As you say it isn't Goliath, is it at least Indian?

[DeAutogids]

My source says no. But geographically you are close. Even the country name is close.

[Wendax]

So it is Indonesia.

[grobmotorix]

AMKO taxi, Java. That´s what my source says.

But I cannot find any infos about a company called Amko.
So maybe it really is a Goliath, running under the Amko brand (maybe the taxi sevice´s name?).

[Wendax]

I know that Wikipedia is not right all the time, but this particular picture is listed in Wikimedia Commons in the Category "Goliath Vehicles".

[DeAutogids]

That's the picture. Now zoom in somewhere else and you will find... another name (the taxi company name).

[grobmotorix]

Right, the taxi company´s name seems to be something like "D.A.V.O." or  "D.AW.D".
So AMKO may be the brand name, indeed.

Does anybody have any information about it?

The company´s logo looks very "european" in my eyes...

BTW: thank you for that point!

[DeAutogids]

Grobmotorix,
The actual goal of my puzzle is to find out more about this mysterious car as well.

Indonesia at the time was a colony of the Netherlands and therefore it could well be that a Dutchman started a company with these cars. It is known that other Dutch makers like Econoom, Simplex and V.L.A.M. exported to Indonesia. Makers from the area, like the Australian Eco, also had an eye on Indonesia. It could have been that a local company made a body on the chassis of a Goliath, eventhough it does not look like a Goliath to me. But that's just me maybe.

[Wendax]

The wheels seem to be the same.

[DeAutogids]

Wheels have often been bought in from local suppliers, presumably this could be a "generic" wheel?

On the other hand: the wheelbase is more or less the same it seems, so it might be a local body, though it seems that the front part is much shorter?

[Wendax]

The whole body including the front surely is local.

[DeAutogids]

This ad for Goliath shows one of their agents in what was then the Dutch Indies as being Amko. I was therefore wrong.

As a result, I have added another point for Wendax.

[Tuckeroo]

Goliath? Goliath Pionier?

I believe it is not

I would have pursued this route had I not been told otherwise 

[DeAutogids]

I am very sorry. But at least I admitted to being wrong and corrected my mistake.

It sometimes happens in books as well, main thing is that it is corrected, I would say.