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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: grobmotorix on April 06, 2011, 05:18:13 PM
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Who knows that auto-mobile contraption?
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Wheeeeeeeeee! ;D
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Experts might know this...
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Pro´s time.
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Walking beam construction?
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Yes, and I´m not quite sure if a slug would have beaten it in a race... :D
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European?
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Yes.
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That looks like a scary machine - I guess it creeps snail-like up the incline but what happens when it reaches the top - a suicide dive down the other side?
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:D
All the people came there to see it crash, I guess ;D
But it really seems to have managed to "walk" this extreme obstacle with engine power.
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perhaps Austrian?
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No.
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German?
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Okay, does the flag on the second pic refers to the country where this suicidal device was built?
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The city, where the inventor has built this contraption has been german in those times. Today it belongs to another country.
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Danzig?
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Not Danzig, but deep inside of Poland.
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Krakau?
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Poznan?
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No and no.
But it is a big polish city.
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Warszawa?
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Lodz?
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#4 of Polands big cities...
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Okay that's Wrocław/Breslau..
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Okay. That´s where he has lived at that time.
But I want to hear the name of the inventor.
To my best knowledge he´s planned to present his work in Berlin.
The pictured event took place at a city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, north of the Breslau region.
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Let this one roll over and crash into the black hole....
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Was the event held in Kalisz?
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No - this rotten fruit is ripe enough to be thrown into the automobilistic black hole now...
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Linke-Hofmann?
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None of those names, I´m sorry.
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I want this to be solved...
Here´s a fine detailed photo:
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I want this to be solved...
:bump:
So do I - I'm curious to know what it is. Something for travelling in snow, perhaps.
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My last hint: This system of moving by walking has even be tested with a truck by its inventor:
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Was the event taking place in Poznan?
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Wrocław/Breslau
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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
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I want this to be solved - I´ve found another vehicle he has developed:
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is this a pedal driven submarine???
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:D
No, it´s a scale model of an early tank.
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are we talking about Günther Burstyn?
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No, but I´m sure this tank hint will uncover his name... ;)
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is there any info available in German on this guy? I seem to go nowhere
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There were even two books about this tank.
And his first name was Friedrich.
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Friedrich Goeble, methinks
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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.
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Friedrich Goebel?
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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":
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congrats Otto
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I´d love to get any more information about his work.
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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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This truck followed the same principle:
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Yes, it obviously follows the same principle.
This is another walking Truck of Göbel: