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Solved - NEH 950: 1939 Rökri-Wagen
« on: February 15, 2011, 09:02:47 AM »
Identify what this cute little fellow is and who built it, for 1 point:
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2011, 03:22:05 AM »
They're everywhere!
« Last Edit: February 16, 2011, 03:25:43 AM by Otto Puzzell »
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2011, 07:40:53 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2011, 04:11:47 AM »
Clearly, the inspiration for this:
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2011, 05:08:04 AM »
Thanks for the front-page coverage.
I think Otto likes this little guy!
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2011, 07:00:14 AM »
Sure the Pro's will know this one?
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2011, 04:26:14 AM »
From Great Britain?
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2011, 05:19:23 AM »
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2011, 05:21:27 AM »
Eastern bloc?
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2011, 05:34:02 AM »
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2011, 05:39:16 AM »
Hmmm....

'murcan?
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2011, 05:44:38 AM »
German?

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2011, 06:20:19 AM »
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2011, 06:22:20 AM »
pre-WW II?

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2011, 06:29:13 AM »
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #15 on: April 08, 2011, 06:30:14 AM »
DKW chassis?

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #16 on: April 08, 2011, 07:38:59 AM »
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #17 on: April 08, 2011, 07:42:31 AM »
One-off by a well-known aerodynamicist? Or by an unknown home-grown genius?

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #18 on: April 08, 2011, 09:58:31 AM »
One-off by a well-known aerodynamicist? Or by an unknown home-grown genius?

It was neither designed nor made by anyone well-known.
It was the dream of 2 very young men (I don't think they were old enough to be qualified engineers) to design and make a very light aerodynamic small car; amazingly enough it seats 4 people too!
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2011, 04:54:03 AM »
... amazingly enough it seats 4 people too!
one of them:

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2011, 05:30:56 AM »
Here's a picture of the newspaper article this came from.
I don't think you can glean any answers from the words (even by blowing the picture up..) but it gives a couple more photos.

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2011, 05:37:24 AM »
It is the Rökri-Wagen from 1939, built by Günther Krieter and Gerhard Röder.

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2011, 05:52:15 AM »
Beat me to it!

Im Juni 1936 beschlossen die Ingenieure Günther Krieter und Gerhard Röder in Braunschweig einen billigen und soliden Kleinwagen zu bauen,
wie sie selber in einer Broschüre berichteten. Vielleicht unter dem Eindruck der übermächtigen Konkurrenz des Volkswagens, entschieden
sie sich dann etwas später, ein Fahrzeug der mittleren Klasse zu bauen, wie sie schrieben. Ihr Rökri-Wagen erhielt 1939 die Zulassung und
erregte Aufsehen auf Braunschweigs Straßen. Der Kriegsbeginn ließ das Projekt in Vergessenheit geraten. Erst Pastor Wolfgang A. Jünke
entdeckte die Unterlagen über den Rökri-Wagen wieder.


In June 1936, the engineers decided Krieter Günther and Gerhard Röder Brunswick to build a cheap and solid small car
as they reported being in a brochure. Perhaps under the influence of the powerful competition of the Volkswagen decided
they then later to build a vehicle of the middle class, as they wrote. Rökri your car received in 1939 the approval and
caused a sensation on Brunswick street. The outbreak of war left the project fall into oblivion. First Pastor Wolfgang A. Jünke
rediscovered the records of the Rökri car.

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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2011, 05:54:24 AM »
Here's a better look
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Re: NEH 950
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2011, 05:54:35 AM »
That's it!
Perhaps giving the chance to Google the headlines gave too much away but it's better that it's solved.
According to the newspaper article Gerhard Röder was only 7 years old but I suspect they might have meant 17!
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