Solved: Wendax 1054 - Austro-Daimler ADR 8 streamline saloon by Oeffag

[Wendax]

An easy art deco Rookie point.

For one point, please respond and identify car and coachbuilder.

[Wendax]

This one won't last long at Expert level.

[Bill Murray]

I believe this is an Austro Daimler ADR-8 with coach work by Armbruster.

Bill

[Wendax]

It is an Austro-Daimler ADR 8, but I have a different coachbuilder.

Locked for you.

[Bill Murray]

Sorry, let us try ÖFAG instead.

Armbruster did an almost identical car that is now in the Jack Nethercutt Collection and I saw that first and answered too quickly.  That one has the spare wheel/tyre sunk into the boot but otherwise looks almost exactly the same.

Bill

[Wendax]

Yes, it is by Oeffag.

One more point for you.

[ropat53]

Can you please help me understand why the different spelling of ÖFFAG; OEFFAG and even ÖFAG that I know is wrong? Is Ö = Oe?
My lack of knowledge of the German language is pretty obvious, the first I learnt when I visited Germany was: "Ich spreche kein Deutsch"

[Bill Murray]

Hi Robbie:

My bad on the one "F", as you say, you can find it both ways on the net and ÖFFAG is the correct spelling for the whole title.

As to the different letters, I cannot explain the whole story but different languages obviously use different letters, usually fairly similar "special" letters will be found in language "groups" as I call them.

In any case, I use the program below to put in the proper "special" letters when I am not too lazy.  In the case when I am too lazy, I use the same method Wendax used where you put in a phonetic spelling.  The Ö is usually pronounced sort of like "Er" in English or Spanish.

There is probably a site that lists phonetic spellings on the net but having lived in Sweden and worked so long for Swedish companies I just seem to remember them as I need them.

Anyway, here is the program.

Bill


http://www.vistawide.com/languages/typing_foreign_language_characters.htm

[Wendax]

OE is the usual German transcription of Ö, for example used in crossword puzzles, respectively AE for Ä and UE for Ü. I took the spelling from a contemporary Austrian article.

[Otto Puzzell]

Look at all those stuck-on and protruding bits! A turbulent stream, for sure.

[Bill Murray]

Quite so Otto...............

Here you can see another version, similar to if not the same car in the Nethercutt collection.
While it is not called "Streamlined", it is certainly a lot more so than the puzzle car.

Bill

[grobmotorix]

Another contemporary photo:

[grobmotorix]

A rare rear view: