Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 1278 - Opel (?) Cabriolet by Schlesienwerk (Read 963 times)

4popoid · « **Reply #25 on:** June 27, 2014, 09:58:32 PM »

Geographically it seems a bit too far north, but I'm wondering if this vehicle isn't a product of: Carosseriewerk Gebrüder Jacobi of Hanover. It has several design clues that resemble their work.

If it is Jacobi, I would speculate (I understand you don't know the chassis maker) the chassis might be a Stoewer. I know Jacobi did a Stoewer V5, but I don't think this is it. However, I think it could be a Stoewer F6, from 1927/1928, given the appearance of the wheels, and the cowl mounted fuel filler.

Wendax · « **Reply #26 on:** June 28, 2014, 02:55:02 AM »

Not by Jacobi, not from Hanover

4popoid · « **Reply #27 on:** June 28, 2014, 11:46:07 AM »

Perhaps by F.W. Utermöhle of Hildesheim?

Wendax · « **Reply #28 on:** June 28, 2014, 12:01:42 PM »

No.

Let me give a hint: geographically you are far off.

4popoid · « **Reply #29 on:** June 28, 2014, 03:01:31 PM »

From Hesse?

Wendax · « **Reply #30 on:** June 28, 2014, 04:18:56 PM »

4popoid · « **Reply #31 on:** June 28, 2014, 08:08:36 PM »

Wow! If I'm way off at Hildesheim, have already ruled out the DDR territory, west & south of Frankfurt am Main, and now all of Hesse, what's left? Extreme northern Bavaria, say around Coburg? Maybe Trutz?

Wendax · « **Reply #32 on:** June 29, 2014, 03:12:33 AM »

Not Bavaria

4popoid · « **Reply #33 on:** June 29, 2014, 08:29:43 AM »

My geography has apparently failed me, as I see nothing left.

Rhineland Palatinate, and Saarland, are completely west of Frankfurt am Main.
Baden-Württemberg is entirely south of Frankfurt am Main.
Thuringia and Sachsen-Anhalt were DDR.
Hesse and Bavaria, as well as Berlin, have been ruled out.
The only partial states remaining east of Frankfurt am Main, and south of Frankfurt an der Oder, are the extreme east of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the extreme south of Lower-Saxony, neither of which would I describe as being "geographically you are far off" from Hildesheim.

What have I overlooked, or what answer have I misconstrued?

Wendax · « **Reply #34 on:** June 29, 2014, 10:24:33 AM »

Think of Germany at the time of this car.

4popoid · « **Reply #35 on:** June 29, 2014, 03:04:36 PM »

Quote from: Wendax on June 29, 2014, 10:24:33 AM

Think of Germany at the time of this car.

Am I correct in interpreting this to mean that the coachbuilder was located in a part of what is currently the state of Hesse, but was not part of Hesse at the time of the vehicle's construction? For example, the city of Kassel.

Wendax · « **Reply #36 on:** June 29, 2014, 03:10:30 PM »

No, but the main principle of temporal changes of boundaries should be followed.

Tom_I · « **Reply #37 on:** June 29, 2014, 04:21:40 PM »

Based in a town which was part of Germany when this car was built, but which is now in Poland?

Wendax · « **Reply #38 on:** June 29, 2014, 04:39:55 PM »

Yes, you got my hint.

4popoid · « **Reply #39 on:** June 29, 2014, 05:56:51 PM »

Ah, from Silesia. Obviously I hadn't thought about Poland, only DDR. Perhaps a coachbuilder from Breslau?

Wendax · « **Reply #40 on:** June 30, 2014, 02:04:55 AM »

Not from Breslau

4popoid · « **Reply #41 on:** June 30, 2014, 02:46:47 AM »

Within 50 km of Breslau (Wroclaw)?

Wendax · « **Reply #42 on:** June 30, 2014, 02:53:56 AM »

More than 50, less than 100

4popoid · « **Reply #43 on:** June 30, 2014, 03:09:31 AM »

Within 50 km of the present German-Polish border?

Wendax · « **Reply #44 on:** June 30, 2014, 04:12:41 AM »

targhediferro · « **Reply #45 on:** June 30, 2014, 05:03:49 AM »

Karlux?

Wendax · « **Reply #46 on:** June 30, 2014, 05:23:25 AM »

pnegyesi · « **Reply #47 on:** June 30, 2014, 05:28:05 AM »

from Liegnitz?

Wendax · « **Reply #48 on:** June 30, 2014, 05:44:03 AM »

Yes

pnegyesi · « **Reply #49 on:** June 30, 2014, 06:00:42 AM »

SS Schlesienwerk?

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