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Fun #75 - Norman Bel Geddes / International Business Machines Bus
« on: November 17, 2011, 04:48:17 AM »
A larger form of transport

For 1 point, identify the designer, and the customer for this trasportation device. .

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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 03:20:39 AM »
Experts?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2011, 06:05:06 AM »
Pros?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2011, 09:38:32 AM »
Is it a Bohn creation ?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2011, 03:45:24 PM »
Quote from: pguillem on November 30, 2011, 09:38:32 AM
Is it a Bohn creation ?

Sure looks like one, but no.
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2011, 03:04:01 AM »
Holland Coachcraft on a ? chassis?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2011, 03:43:56 AM »
This was a scale model. I don't believe a full-size example was ever made.
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2011, 08:21:25 AM »
Well-known designer and client
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2011, 09:54:15 AM »
Raymond Loewy for Greyhound?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2011, 10:08:03 AM »
Not Raymond, but of a similar ilk.

The customer was not in the passenger transportation business.
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2011, 10:13:19 AM »
Brooks Stevens?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #11 on: December 16, 2011, 10:18:33 AM »
Not him
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2011, 04:38:11 AM »
Count Alexis de Sakhnoffsky?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2011, 04:45:27 AM »
The list of possibilities grows shorter.  :)
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2011, 04:46:55 AM »
Alex Tremulis?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2011, 04:48:35 AM »
Walter Dorwin Teague?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2011, 05:08:38 AM »
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2011, 05:08:52 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 04:48:35 AM
Walter Dorwin Teague?


...and shorter...
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2011, 05:10:05 AM »
Harley Earl?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2011, 05:15:38 AM »
Bill Mitchell?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2011, 05:18:25 AM »
Not Mitchell, nor Earl.

Like Loewy and some of the others mentioned, motor vehicles were but a part of this designers portfolio.
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2011, 05:21:16 AM »
Let's change the direction: Louis Lucien Lepoix?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2011, 05:27:24 AM »
Norman Bel Geddes?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2011, 05:35:09 AM »
John Tjaarda?
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Re: Fun #75
« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2011, 09:52:18 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on December 23, 2011, 05:27:24 AM
Norman Bel Geddes?

That's the designer!
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