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Solved: Wendax 1183 - Benz Tropfen-Auto
« on: March 06, 2014, 02:15:49 AM »
A well-known car, really?

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Re: Wendax 1183
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2014, 03:27:57 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1183
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2014, 03:36:11 AM »
It looks as a rumpler trophenwagen touring ??
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Re: Wendax 1183
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2014, 03:49:59 AM »
If it was just a normal Rumpler Tropfenwagen, it would have been too easy, wouldn't it? It is closely related, but it is not a Rumpler.
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Re: Wendax 1183
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2014, 04:00:00 AM »
Some sources name this car as Benz-Rumpler Trophenwagen touring but this looks very easy too .
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Re: Wendax 1183
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2014, 04:14:20 AM »
It is as easy as that. Edmund Rumpler sold his patent to Benz. This Tropfenwagen (or Tropfen-Auto) carries Benz badges. It is not clear whether this is just a rebadged Rumpler, or whether this car was already built at the Benz factory in Mannheim.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 1183 - Benz Tropfen-Auto
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2014, 04:39:42 AM »
I have not seen the Benz badges and I have the same doubt, it looks as a rebadged Rumpler. Before this puzzle I thought that the benz trophengawens were these  ::):
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Re: Solved: Wendax 1183 - Benz Tropfen-Auto
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2014, 04:59:56 AM »
Those are the cars that Benz built later on using the Rumpler patents. We had some of them as puzzles before:
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=26169
http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=14178

The puzzle car has the Benz badges and a IVB registration which was the one for Mannheim, but even Metternich in his Rumpler book wasn't able to find out where this one was built.
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