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Solved TGF-377: Mercedes-Benz OP312 by Van Rooyen (NL), "The Marriageboat"
« on: March 26, 2014, 08:54:58 AM »
Can you identify this strange vehicle?  Make, model and coachbuilder are requested.
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2014, 02:06:02 PM »
By Coriasco ?
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2014, 04:08:58 AM »
Not by Coriasco.
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2014, 05:16:02 AM »
This is a trick, isn't it? A mobile home PLUS a boat...are there wings further back and extra wheels for rails which you aren't showing us? If so, this would be the Amazingly Complete Holiday Vehicle by the obscure AllThingsToAllMen (ATTA) Company of Desperation, USA.

In a test of this vehicle/boat/train in Modern Mechanix in 1954, Tom McCahill said: "In train mode, this thing handles like it's on rails, even if it's so slow it couldn't win a drag race with a sloth. In boat mode, to dock it is like trying to get an eel into a Coke bottle and on the road you have to point it in the general direction you want to go while praying with two Rosaries. The wings are supposed to allow it to fly you to far flung places but in reality you are more likely to be flung into far places. Instead of being all things to all holidaymakers the Amazingly Complete Holiday Vehicle makes getting home safely the highlight of any trip".

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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2014, 08:37:49 AM »
Something more common is hidden behind this picture...no train, no wings, no real boat.
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2014, 11:09:38 AM »
I have seen it before,it was used as a sightseeing bus at the harbours or something like that.
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2014, 04:46:24 PM »
I don't know much about where it was used...anyway it is a bus.
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2014, 08:52:48 AM »
The vehicle in the picture is called "De Huwelijksboot"(The Marriageboat). It was in service in Amsterdam in the early sixties with "Vergeet mij niet Tours"(Don't forget me tours). There were 3 of these built as far as I've been able to find out. Base was a Mercedes OP312 32-seater, converted by Van Rooyen in 1959.
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Re: TGF-377
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2014, 09:30:30 AM »
Absolutely correct!
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Re: Solved TGF-377: Mercedes-Benz OP312 by Van Rooyen (NL), "The Marriageboat"
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2014, 10:12:05 AM »
Well, I had it but it didn't get up one more level.

Here, a "beauty shot" photo.
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Re: Solved TGF-377: Mercedes-Benz OP312 by Van Rooyen (NL), "The Marriageboat"
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2014, 01:16:56 PM »
Another boatbus.  This one is a Guy Vixen bodied by Domburg.  Following is our Huwelijksbus.
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