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Solved TGF-331: Austro-Daimler Mixte typ Taunus 1908
« on: January 10, 2014, 08:49:43 AM »
Can you identify this car? Make, model and year to get a point.
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2014, 11:03:16 AM »
No interest among Experts. Up.
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2014, 11:11:14 AM »
Electric motors in the rear hubs - anything to do with Lohner-Porsche ?
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2014, 11:27:33 AM »
My source just reports a marque, a model and a year; anyway I suppose there could be a link between this car a Lohner-Porsche.
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2014, 11:41:17 AM »
I just have very vague memories of a similar car. Is it a Metallurgique?
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2014, 11:58:20 AM »
Not a Metallurgique.
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2014, 12:13:25 PM »
Mercedes Mixte?
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2014, 12:52:13 PM »
Hm - all the Elektro-Hybrid Mercedes I know have the electric drive integrated in the front wheels.

The overall design looks indeed very much like a Mercedes...

Letīs see what this is.

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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2014, 01:13:10 PM »
Well, I think Pal deserves the point, but here is what Iīve found:

The car shows Otto Kaes driving a modified 8 liter Austro-Daimler "Mixte" race car at Brooklands in 1908.
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Re: TGF-331
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2014, 04:49:01 PM »
Yes, Grobmotorix got the right car! The picture shows an Austro-Daimler Mixte 1908 driven by Otto Kaes.  My source says it was called typ Taunus because of the fact it took part in Taunus Renn.
I'm quite sure that the electric engine was provided by Porsche who entered in Austro-Daimler in 1907, so it's probably it was a Lohner engine.
I think Grobmotorix deserves this point.
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Re: Solved TGF-331: Austro-Daimler Mixte typ Taunus 1908
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2014, 10:58:44 PM »
yes, it is his point
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Re: Solved TGF-331: Austro-Daimler Mixte typ Taunus 1908
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2014, 11:58:52 AM »
Oh, thank you both!
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