Author Topic: Name That Large Vehicle - Solved! NWF-Ford "Schnellbus" (Read 1298 times)

Otto Puzzell · « **on:** January 12, 2009, 05:03:10 AM »

Know what it is? More important: what company constructed it, using what mechanicals?

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Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2009, 05:09:29 AM »

DynaMike · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2009, 07:10:16 AM »

I think this is a 1951 German Ford bus bodied by the Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeugbau (NWF), develloped by airplane builder Prof. Heinrich Focke, and nicknamed 'das Flugzeug der Landstraße' (airplane of the landroad). It had a 95 bhp Ford V-8 engine (or a 90 bhp Hercules diesel four).

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2009, 08:20:56 AM »

Also went by the nickname "Schnellbus"

grobmotorix · « **Reply #4 on:** June 01, 2012, 11:50:23 AM »

Who knows this bus?

correct chassis manufacturer + coachbuilding company = 1 point

grobmotorix · « **Reply #5 on:** June 07, 2012, 04:52:56 AM »

Experts?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2012, 06:33:39 AM »

Too hard for the experts...

pguillem · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2012, 02:10:23 PM »

A Mercedes-Benz bodied by Uerdingen ?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #8 on:** July 13, 2012, 02:19:11 PM »

Not Mercedes, not an Ürdingen-body.

But you´ve got the right country...

pguillem · « **Reply #9 on:** July 13, 2012, 08:32:33 PM »

A shot in the dark : Henschel bodied by Kässbohrer ?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #10 on:** July 14, 2012, 12:15:05 AM »

No and no.

Hint:

the basis make is very common.

guido66 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 14, 2012, 02:45:43 AM »

Opel?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #12 on:** July 14, 2012, 03:32:57 AM »

pguillem · « **Reply #13 on:** July 14, 2012, 11:30:44 AM »

A Ford bodied by Drauz ?

Wendax · « **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2012, 12:20:58 PM »

Just back from two weeks holidays. I have to collect some points, I guess.

Ford Schnell-Bus, built in 1951 by Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeug-Bau GmbH (NWF), V8 gasoline or Diesel rear engine (Wistü-Sammelbild Nr. 72)

grobmotorix · « **Reply #15 on:** July 14, 2012, 01:22:51 PM »

That was my source, too!

"Schnellbus" means express-bus.

Wendax · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2012, 01:33:23 PM »

A collection of Wistü pictures from my father's childhood days started my interest for old cars when I was about five years old.

pguillem · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2012, 02:11:56 PM »

Das Flugzeug der Landstrasse

Allemano · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2012, 02:38:33 PM »

A great sketch!

grobmotorix · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2012, 03:06:24 PM »

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A collection of Wistü pictures from my father's childhood days started my interest for old cars when I was about five years old. Grin

A collection of Wistü pictures from my uncle's childhood days started my interest for old cars when I was about five years old.

Wendax · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2012, 03:11:36 PM »

Over the past forty something years I managed to get hold of all 90 album pages and 684 different pictures. You don't have #158, #163 or #166, by chance?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2012, 03:18:11 PM »

I´ve looked through my non-glued cards and I do not have one of them.
But if you can name the three vehicles, I may look through the pages of my glued albums...

My collection is smaller, but it came along with my uncle´s Schuco Varianto Schnellbus, which was modelled after the busses of the puzzle pic´s era.
The collecting cards and the album did survive - the Schuco bus died at my model car graveyard, when I was ca. 10 years old.

I thouhgt it would be cool to take a hammer an smash most of my model cars to pieces back in 1982.

Carnut · « **Reply #22 on:** July 14, 2012, 07:16:46 PM »

Quote from: grobmotorix on July 14, 2012, 03:18:11 PM

II thouhgt it would be cool to take a hammer an smash most of my model cars to pieces back in 1982.

You've had plenty of time to regret that decision!

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #23 on:** July 15, 2012, 04:18:47 AM »

Merged

grobmotorix · « **Reply #24 on:** April 03, 2013, 03:22:17 PM »

The bus shared many components and the engine with this truck (as can be read in the german text):

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Author Topic: Name That Large Vehicle - Solved! NWF-Ford "Schnellbus" (Read 1298 times)