Author Topic: Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, presented at Breslau in 1914 (Read 1987 times)

grobmotorix · « **Reply #25 on:** May 28, 2011, 02:06:34 AM »

Let this one roll over and crash into the black hole....

guido66 · « **Reply #26 on:** June 04, 2011, 10:18:41 AM »

Was the event held in Kalisz?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #27 on:** June 06, 2011, 12:31:45 PM »

No - this rotten fruit is ripe enough to be thrown into the automobilistic black hole now...

guido66 · « **Reply #28 on:** June 06, 2011, 12:38:41 PM »

Linke-Hofmann?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #29 on:** June 06, 2011, 02:03:45 PM »

None of those names, I´m sorry.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2012, 05:19:39 PM »

I want this to be solved...

Here´s a fine detailed photo:

D-type · « **Reply #31 on:** September 29, 2012, 03:29:35 PM »

Quote from: grobmotorix on March 27, 2012, 05:19:39 PM

I want this to be solved...

So do I - I'm curious to know what it is. Something for travelling in snow, perhaps.

grobmotorix · « **Reply #32 on:** September 29, 2012, 04:30:17 PM »

My last hint: This system of moving by walking has even be tested with a truck by its inventor:

pnegyesi · « **Reply #33 on:** September 29, 2012, 11:48:09 PM »

Was the event taking place in Poznan?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #34 on:** September 30, 2012, 06:17:37 AM »

Wrocław/Breslau

pnegyesi · « **Reply #35 on:** September 30, 2012, 06:55:20 AM »

Yes, the guy lived there, you already told us. However the first picture shows an event at a city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. My Poznan question referred to the location of this event

grobmotorix · « **Reply #36 on:** March 22, 2013, 05:53:36 PM »

I want this to be solved - I´ve found another vehicle he has developed:

pnegyesi · « **Reply #37 on:** April 01, 2013, 11:26:27 AM »

is this a pedal driven submarine???

grobmotorix · « **Reply #38 on:** April 01, 2013, 03:03:32 PM »

No, it´s a scale model of an early tank.

pnegyesi · « **Reply #39 on:** April 01, 2013, 03:42:49 PM »

are we talking about Günther Burstyn?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #40 on:** April 01, 2013, 05:34:17 PM »

No, but I´m sure this tank hint will uncover his name...

pnegyesi · « **Reply #41 on:** April 01, 2013, 11:53:40 PM »

is there any info available in German on this guy? I seem to go nowhere

grobmotorix · « **Reply #42 on:** April 02, 2013, 01:24:43 AM »

There were even two books about this tank.

And his first name was Friedrich.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #43 on:** April 02, 2013, 04:11:21 AM »

Friedrich Goeble, methinks

grobmotorix · « **Reply #44 on:** April 02, 2013, 12:21:19 PM »

LOCKED for you.

Most internet sources spell him wrongly - as did yours. $:-\$

To give a big hint:

just interchange two letters and the name is correct.

And also this tank had no wheels but moved by walking like the vehicles I´ve shown before.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #45 on:** April 02, 2013, 12:36:26 PM »

Friedrich Goebel?

grobmotorix · « **Reply #46 on:** April 02, 2013, 12:44:06 PM »

Not bad for a non native german speaker, indeed!

Yes, the puzzle car was Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, he has presented in Breslau in 1914.

He has experimented with this principle for years and other results were the truck and even the tank shown here.

The tank was the so called "Landpanzerkreuzer".

And here´s the proof that the man is spelled "Goebel":

pnegyesi · « **Reply #47 on:** April 02, 2013, 01:23:51 PM »

congrats Otto

grobmotorix · « **Reply #48 on:** April 02, 2013, 01:35:47 PM »

I´d love to get any more information about his work.

Otto Puzzell · « **Reply #49 on:** April 02, 2013, 03:00:50 PM »

Quote from: pnegyesi on April 02, 2013, 01:23:51 PM

congrats Otto

Thank you. As is often the case, much of the heavy lifting was done earlier in the puzzle. Once we had "Friedrich" and "Tank", the rest was straightforward. I had previously assumed the puzzle device was a sort of movable bridge, which led me nowhere.

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Author Topic: Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, presented at Breslau in 1914 (Read 1987 times)