Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, presented at Breslau in 1914

grobmotorix · April 06, 2011, 05:18:13 PM

Who knows that auto-mobile contraption?

Otto Puzzell · April 08, 2011, 04:06:10 AM

Wheeeeeeeeee!

grobmotorix · April 14, 2011, 06:20:20 PM

Experts might know this...

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 02:07:06 PM

Pro´s time.

guido66 · May 09, 2011, 03:08:08 PM

Walking beam construction?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 03:19:59 PM

Yes, and I´m not quite sure if a slug would have beaten it in a race...

guido66 · May 09, 2011, 03:22:29 PM

European?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 03:49:33 PM

Yes.

woodinsight · May 09, 2011, 04:01:25 PM

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?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 04:08:35 PM

All the people came there to see it crash, I guess

But it really seems to have managed to "walk" this extreme obstacle with engine power.

Allemano · May 09, 2011, 04:11:42 PM

perhaps Austrian?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 04:18:11 PM

No.

guido66 · May 09, 2011, 04:21:37 PM

German?

Allemano · May 09, 2011, 04:22:05 PM

Okay, does the flag on the second pic refers to the country where this suicidal device was built?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 05:06:33 PM

The city, where the inventor has built this contraption has been german in those times. Today it belongs to another country.

DeAutogids · May 09, 2011, 05:07:34 PM

Danzig?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 05:12:27 PM

Not Danzig, but deep inside of Poland.

Allemano · May 09, 2011, 05:17:28 PM

Krakau?

DeAutogids · May 09, 2011, 05:27:28 PM

Poznan?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 05:39:05 PM

No and no.

But it is a big polish city.

Allemano · May 09, 2011, 05:48:10 PM

Warszawa?

DeAutogids · May 09, 2011, 05:49:23 PM

Lodz?

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 05:50:07 PM

#4 of Polands big cities...

Allemano · May 09, 2011, 05:54:20 PM

Okay that's Wrocław/Breslau..

grobmotorix · May 09, 2011, 05:58:43 PM

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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Friedrich Goebel´s walking car, presented at Breslau in 1914