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Solved: Back To The Egg - The Brütsch puzzle
« on: November 03, 2012, 05:03:01 PM »
It's group puzzle time again. I hope this one will drive you crazy!  :joker:

In the following you will see 40 closely related cars, some of which have been posted before. But some "solutions" to those puzzles were quite inaccurate. So instead of posting "I do know it better!!!" comments I decided to spend some time looking for pictures of these little beauties. Amongst them are prototypes, production cars and one-offs. All you have to do is to identify these cars correctly.

In order to prevent that some microcar buff like me grabs all points at once, you can only have a guess at one car at a time. After your post you have to wait for 24 hours before you can guess on another car.

As some of these cars are of the "It is either this or that" type, there will be no locks.

Points will be awarded after all eggs are eaten. Keep your sunny side up and have fun!

First batch:
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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2012, 05:05:40 PM »
Second batch:

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2012, 05:07:46 PM »
Third batch:

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2012, 05:10:18 PM »
Fourth batch:
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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2012, 05:13:57 PM »
Room for solutions:
Egg 01: Spatz by Bayrische Autowerke GmbH (BAG) (Julien1A)
Egg 02: Brütsch Rollera (pguillem)
Egg 03: Brutsch Avolette (aka Brütsch-Avolette) by Air Tourist (luisps)
Egg 04: Victoria prototype based on BAG Spatz (pnegyesi)
Egg 05: Brütsch Zwerg Einsitzer (Tom_I)
Egg 06: Brütsch Mopetta from 1956 (Facel)
Egg 07: Avolette 1956 by Air Tourist (SACO)
Egg 08: Brütsch Typ T / Eremit Cabriolet (Joao)
Egg 09: Brütsch 200 Spatz Coupé (luisps)
Egg 10: Belcar, second version with doors (luisps)
Egg 11: Brütsch Bussard (Allemano)
Egg 12: Brütsch 200 Spatz prototype (luisps)
Egg 13: Avolette 1957 by Air Tourist (barrett)
Egg 14: Brütsch R 400 (Allemano)
Egg 15: Brütsch Zwerg Zweisitzer with acrylic glass hardtop (pguillem)
Egg 16: Spatz with gullwing hardtop by Bayrische Autowerke GmbH (BAG) (pnegyesi)
Egg 17: Burgfalke FB 250 Export (luisps)
Egg 18: Brütsch Pfeil (SACO)
Egg 19: Brütsch V2N (luisps)
Egg 20: Brütsch 200 Spatz (barrett)
Egg 21: Super Jet, an attempt by Union Industrielle to sell the France Jet production to Spain (luisps)
Egg 22: France Jet 1100, built by The Lofstrand Company, Rockville, Maryland (luisps)
Egg 23: Brütsch Typ S (SACO)
Egg 24: Brütsch V2 (Tom_I)
Egg 25: Spatz Coupé prototype by BAG (Joao)
Egg 26: Brütsch K 400 (Facel)
Egg 27: Sprint, Swiss licence-built Brütsch Spatz by Max Schaer (luisps)
Egg 28: Spatz 200 Coupé by Spatz Fahrzeugbau Harald Friedrich (Facel)
Egg 29: Brütsch Zwerg II (luisps)
Egg 30: Victoria 250 Cabriolet prototype (pnegyesi)
Egg 31: France Jet, built in 1959 by Union Industrielle in France (sixtee5cuda)
Egg 32: Brütsch Zwerg Zweisitzer (pguillem)
Egg 33: Brütsch 1200 Coupé by Wendler (Joao)
Egg 34: Jet 175, built by Air Tourist (luisps)
Egg 35: Opelit by Georg von Opel (pguillem)
Egg 36: Rollera by Air Tourist (barrett)
Egg 37: Victoria 250 (Tom_I)
Egg 38: Progress Supreme Tourette (luisps)
Egg 39: Brütsch Mopetta 1958 (Tom_I)
Egg 40: Modern Microcars Mopetta (barrett)
« Last Edit: November 17, 2012, 01:59:41 AM by Wendax »

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2012, 05:14:58 PM »
Great puzzle !

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2012, 07:45:49 PM »
Egg 3: BRüTSCH ZWERG

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2012, 07:56:08 PM »
Egg 35: 1957 Brütsch Mopetta Roadster

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2012, 02:34:30 AM »
Egg 3: BRüTSCH ZWERG
The looks are very similar, but this one is not a Brütsch Zwerg. You can try again on this one, but remember that you have wait 24 h from your last egg post for a try on another egg.

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2012, 02:36:38 AM »
Egg 35: 1957 Brütsch Mopetta Roadster
It is closely related, but this one is not a Brütsch Mopetta. You can try again on this one, but remember that you have wait 24 h from your last egg post for a try on another egg.

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2012, 05:05:32 AM »
12 Spatz 200?

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2012, 05:17:06 AM »
Egg 02 : Brütsch Rolletta ?

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2012, 05:27:00 AM »
Great puzzle great idea! :thumbsup:

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2012, 06:02:53 AM »
12 Spatz 200?
Yes, but that is only part of the name. There's a little bit more to the story, too.

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2012, 06:08:18 AM »
Egg 02 : Brütsch Rolletta ?
No, but you are close. As far as I know there never was a Rolletta. It must have been a typo already appearing in a German car magazine in 1957.
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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2012, 06:17:04 AM »
Egg 3 If not Brütsch Zwerg could be one of the first Avolette from Air Tourist.

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2012, 06:22:10 AM »
Egg 3 If not Brütsch Zwerg could be one of the first Avolette from Air Tourist.
Now you are very close. It is an Avolette from Air Tourist, but the name isn't complete. As you stated correctly, it is one of the first ones. Have a second look.

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2012, 12:10:21 PM »
I've found in a brochure of 1955the name of "Brütsch-Avolette" from Air Tourist

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2012, 12:22:29 PM »
I've found in a brochure of 1955 the name of "Brütsch-Avolette" from Air Tourist
I have good news and bad news for you. The good one first: you are right, the first Avolette by Air Tourist went by the name of Brutsch Avolette (notice the missing dots above the u!). The Brutsch Avolette made its first appearance in 1955 at the Paris Salon de l'Automobile. It was powered by a 175 cc Ydral engine and is characterised by its two flared-in headlights. The picture by the way really shows a car with German registration, so it is probably a Zwerg indeed. But I take it as the one it purports to be. We had the Brutsch Avolette before: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16939.0

The bad news is that you have to wait 24 h from your last post before you can open another egg.
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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2012, 12:54:02 PM »
Egg #20 : Brütsch 300 Mk1 ?

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2012, 01:13:00 PM »
Egg #20 : Brütsch 300 Mk1 ?
I won't answer this. Please read the rules at the beginning of this group puzzle, mekubb. You have to wait 24 hours after a post before you can guess on another car. Your last guess was at 05:17:06 AM today on Egg 02. Right now you just can try to get Egg 02 right or wait.
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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2012, 01:29:27 PM »
Ok sorry, I thought I only had to wait 24 h after I had guessed it right (and no. 2 wasn't completely correct). I will wait now or dig further into no. 2

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2012, 01:50:27 PM »
I'm sorry to say that Air Tourist has edited a leaflet with the "¨" on Brütsch; it can e seen in a blog hold by Mr. Philippe Devant. I'm not giving the link due to the rules ...

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2012, 01:56:51 PM »
I'm sorry to say that Air Tourist has edited a leaflet with the "¨" on Brütsch; it can e seen in a blog hold by Mr. Philippe Devant. I'm not giving the link due to the rules ...

Indeed, it can be seen here: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=16939.msg165865#msg165865
So it is a "Brutsch Avolette" as well as a "Brütsch-Avolette"  :D

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Re: Back To The Egg
« Reply #24 on: November 05, 2012, 08:31:01 AM »
I've added a few more, so that there are 40 eggs now. I promise not to lay more eggs!