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Solved: Allemano's № 688 - 1930 Graichen
« on: September 21, 2011, 11:57:37 AM »
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 07:15:46 AM »
moved this to P&F.
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 08:15:42 AM »
According to the lettering on the hood, this car has a special kind of propulsion that doesn't use explosive materials, so it is no combustion engine underneath. Is it something unusual like compressed air?
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2011, 10:01:10 AM »
Dammit! I should have removed all of the letters. ;D

The builder filed a patent application and had a special term for the engine he apparently did invent.
The source reports that unfortunately no technical details have survived.
« Last Edit: September 22, 2011, 11:57:00 AM by Allemano »
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2011, 02:52:17 AM »
I like the way you shopped the letters on the license plate!
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2011, 08:19:33 AM »
Graichen-Erfinder rennwagen?
I found a small pic of what seems to be the same car.
« Last Edit: September 24, 2011, 08:30:26 AM by Paul Jaray »
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2011, 01:43:15 AM »
Yes, it's the 'Graichen'! Well done PJ!
What was special about it? (already half-answered)

Locked for you!
« Last Edit: September 26, 2011, 01:45:49 AM by Allemano »
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2011, 10:56:52 AM »
Luft und wasser!
Air and water.
Here's the article:
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Re: Allemano's № 688
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2011, 11:05:59 AM »
That's the ticket!  :)

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1930 baute der Ingenieur E. Graichen in Berlin einen einsitzigen Rennwagen mit Drahtspeichenrädern, starrer Vorderachse und torpedoförmiger Karosserie. Graichen hatte auf seinen Versuchswagen ein Patent angemeldet und nahm auf ein "Aktenzeichen Z. 79745 II/63" Bezug. Es hieß, der Wagen mach seine "Fahrt ohne explosive Treibmittel - Erzeugt seinen Betriebsstoff automatisch kostenlos bei Fahrt und Stillstand". Über das "Antriebs-System E. Graichen", das als "elektropneumatisch" bezeichnet wurde, liegen keine näheren Details vor.

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In 1930 the engineer E. Graichen in Berlin, a single-seat racing car with wire wheels, front suspension and rigid torpedo-shaped body. Graichen had filed a patent on his test car and took on a "document number Z. 79 745 II/63" reference. It was said that the cars do his "journey without explosive propellant - Generated automatically charge its fuel when driving and stopped." About the "drive-system E. Graichen," which was described as "electro," There are no further details.


The unaltered pic:
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 688 - 1930 Graichen
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2011, 11:08:43 AM »
Sheer luck!
I was putting order in a folder with 130 pages of magazines and this was the 1st!  ;D
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 688 - 1930 Graichen
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2011, 05:11:25 PM »
Possible that this engine concept was too good to be true...
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 688 - 1930 Graichen
« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2011, 03:17:02 PM »
Quote from: Allemano on September 26, 2011, 05:11:25 PM
Possible that this engine concept was too good to be true...

How did you get that idea?  :D
He only promised that the engine produced the fuel itself at no cost. That is just a further development of the perpetuum mobile.  ;)
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Re: Solved: Allemano's № 688 - 1930 Graichen
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2015, 06:28:44 PM »
2 pages from a book unrelated to this car, 'Arrow In The Blue' by Arthur Koestler.
(3rd page from the Spanish version, 'Memories')
« Last Edit: August 26, 2015, 06:34:30 PM by Paul Jaray »
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