Hi PG:
Glad I didn't tick you off.
As to computers, you and I are of the same generation (70 years old/74 years old), and perhaps like me you find them both a blessing and a curse.
I am going through a bit of a problem just now in that I have two PCs and a Mac. As my company that I owned for 20 years was heavily PC dependent, I leased the PCs for three years and when a new lease came up purchased the old ones for a dollar apiece and kept the best for myself and donated the rest to "Good Works" outfits. This last took place in 2010 and I sold the business to my son in 2012. That PC runs on Windows XP which has just been abandoned by Microsoft in terms of support and has already come up with some gremlins. In 2011, I purchased a second PC that runs on Windows 7 which I hate. As a result, I purchased a Mac for my downstairs office area and that worked OK until the latest big cyber attack.
Suffice to say, I had to dump everything on the Mac and do their patch stuff and it screwed everything up. Lost passwords, data files got reorganized, reset a lot of settings put in place by Apple when I purchased the machine to default settings, you name it. So good luck with your new one.
As to the puzzle vehicle, I am satisfied myself that it is a Framo, I have found it on several sites. I do not think it is on one of the passenger car chassis as it is just too large. I think that bearing in mind that they were a quite low volume producer that they did a bit of "mix and match" when it came to such items as wheels for example. This puzzle vehicle is a minibus and may have needed the commercial style wheels from similar three wheeler vehicles.
I also use the Powalski site quite a lot and Google does a pretty good translation and I did not read anything that scared me off of Framo as a base chassis.
It would be nice if TGF could tell us a bit more about how he identified the vehicle without disclosing his source.
I am still looking to come up with 1935 as the year of manufacture.
Been fun.
Bill
