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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2013 => Topic started by: targhediferro on November 25, 2013, 09:27:18 AM
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I just want to know the brand of this bus...the correct answer will earn you a point, two if you are a Rookie.
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No interest among Experts. Up
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A strange beast. Kromhout ?
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Not Kromhout.
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German ?
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Not German.
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Barreiros ?
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Not Barreiros.
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It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.
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It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.
That's obviously right. A strange beast, actually.
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From the days when things used to be very different there from anywhere else in Europe.
I remember seeing my first-ever Japanese car there in the early 1960s, and travelling for the first time ever in a Russian car there at the same time (a Volga taxi).
Now you could be anywhere in Europe, or indeed the world, going by the vehicles.
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It is an Ajokki from Finland, probably built on a Scania-Vabis chassis.
That's obviously right. A strange beast, actually.
Very different from the other Ajokki bodies. It can't be found on the Finnish sites.
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It looks very much like this Ajokki trolley bus:
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It looks very much like this Ajokki trolley bus:
Oh ! That's the famous "Huurteenpoistoauto" which makes WorldLingo totally helpless :'( It was used for unfreezing the buses.
A good puzzle, anyway :thumbsup:
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I believe it is a converted bus as the only trolleybuses to run in Helsinki were made by Valmet plus a single prototype made by Sisu.
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I believe it is a converted bus as the only trolleybuses to run in Helsinki were made by Valmet plus a single prototype made by Sisu.
This one was running in Tampere
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It is indeed a converted bus. It is described as a 1959 Scania Vabis/Ajokki