Topic: Whaddyacallit #402 - Brooks Stevens' Western Clipper

[Otto Puzzell]

Say - that's pretty cool!

It looks more like Oggy's pic than the puzzle vehicle, at least to my old eyes. 

[grobmotorix]

You´re right, but I´m still quite sure it is a Brook Stevens design.
The puzzle vehicle might have been a kind of predecessor?

[Otto Puzzell]

I'm sure that's correct. I wonder if we'll ever get the proof on this one?

[Allemano]

I'm sure that's correct. I wonder if we'll ever get the proof on this one?

Yes we do!

Look what I have found:

[João]

Great Allemano!!! 

[grobmotorix]

So it is a Brook Stevens (Western) Clipper, as I´ve said before?
Let´s close this one finally and award the point to Allemano...

[Otto Puzzell]

Interesting. Many sites have the Western van as being built on an International Clipper chassis. It had round windows, and a stubbier wheelbase. It can be seen elsewhere in the AutoPuzzles site, and even on the second page of this thread (miss-titled "Westprint").  

[Ray B.]

Interesting. Many sites have the Western van as being built on an International Clipper chassis. It had round windows, and a stubbier wheelbase. It can be seen elsewhere in the AutoPuzzles site, and even on the second page of this thread (miss-titled "Westprint").  

I corrected this for the name by which it is known: Western Printing van. Apparently I had pasted the shortened file name that I had used while saving it on my HD.

  for Allemano, and two points (unless he wants to share one to Grob). I'd call this teaching SIA and Hemmings a lesson, but triumph should be modest.

Here is the interior of another of his Western Publishing Co. vans for comparison.

[Allemano]

Grob deserves a point! He first mentioned the name 'Clipper'.

About my source: I surprisingly found it in the September 1995 edition of CarStyling bimonthly (#108).
So, if the Japanese know their US-streamline-bus-stuff better than the US of A experts. — I don't know!

[Otto Puzzell]

Who first suggested 'Stevens'? 

[Ray B.]

You did for sure.   But I had opened the doors wide for you.

As I said above, it's for you to find and I know nothing of this vehicle. Except (this is the clue I was speaking of) that the picture was probably taken in the Milwaukee area.

I substracted a point to Allemano and added it to Grob.
Otto, my heart bleeds for you, but you know that suggestions are not enough.

[grobmotorix]

Thank you.
Autopuzzles sometimes is like archeology - it was pure incidence that I´ve found the clipper in the bottom left edge of a bigger picture while digging through my HD...

[barrett]

It's always nice to see these long-running puzzles finally laid to rest, good work guys!

[Ray B.]

Paul Jaray warned me that the car was featured in a recent article about "the incomplete history of Brooks Stevens motorhomes".
As it is incomplete, precisely, we don't learn much bout the particulars of this particular car, but there are very valuable details on the subject.
And four more pictures of this one, where we see the these ladies nicely chatting inside the car, on the front seat, then rejoined by a gentleman on the rear seats.
And that's all.
Here they are.

[grobmotorix]