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Solved: PN #616 -- Hanomag truck bodied by Lassig Karosseriebau
« on: February 23, 2014, 04:14:43 PM »
Pls identify the coachbuilder for a point
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2014, 06:37:10 AM »
Experts?
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2014, 02:05:01 PM »
Professionals?
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2014, 03:00:49 PM »
This must be one really important Hanomag, Pal.
It looks like a hundred other Hanomag van photos one can find on the net.

Anything else you could maybe tell us about it?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2014, 03:20:45 PM »
I agree. Looks like an ordinary Kofferaufbau on an early Hanomag L 28 (rear hinged doors).

German coachbuilder?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2014, 04:06:32 PM »
yes, this is a very ordinary Hanomag. You have to focus on the coachbuilder though. As it has some relatively rare attributes
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2014, 04:11:13 PM »

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2014, 04:22:12 PM »
Support vehicle for Porsche?
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2014, 04:27:56 PM »
German company. And it is not the vehicle which is interesting at all (nothing to do with Porsche though). It is the company which made the body
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2014, 04:30:25 PM »
Does the body at the rear have openings on all sides?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2014, 04:34:39 PM »
it is a regular truck body
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2014, 08:29:24 PM »
I am intrigued by the series of small rectangular panels around the truck body.  They do not appear to be painted on, but rather either picture frames for holding print media, or transparent viewing ports for looking into the van.  They might even be ports holding CRT screens, but the placement doesn't look right, and, unless they were added later, the the date of truck manufacture looks too early.  Are these panels significant to the puzzle solution?

Also, I may be completely wrong, but I think I see what looks like a very small model car toward the lower front of the van body in what looks like open (openable?) area under the panels mentioned above.

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2014, 11:46:56 PM »
no, as I said previously, this is an ordinary body on a Hanomag chassis. You are better off focusing on the company
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2014, 07:49:16 AM »
Does the coachbuilder still exist?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2014, 08:01:56 AM »
yes
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2014, 08:16:23 AM »
Did the coachbuilder usually do coachwork for cars, not trucks?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2014, 08:51:20 AM »
it built mostly truck bodies
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2014, 09:03:48 AM »
A rather obscure coachbuilder?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2014, 09:09:25 AM »
I would say so
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2014, 12:31:40 PM »
North of a line between Düsseldorf and Dresden?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2014, 01:54:32 PM »
yes
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2014, 02:10:09 PM »
From the federal state of Lower Saxony?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2014, 02:24:16 PM »
no
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Re: PN #616
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2014, 02:25:25 PM »
From Bremen?

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Re: PN #616
« Reply #24 on: March 16, 2014, 02:56:57 PM »
no
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