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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2014, 12:36:51 PM »
No, no and no

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2014, 01:30:17 PM »
Perhaps I've been making this too hard.  Erdmann & Rossi?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2014, 01:31:31 PM »
Not exactly, but so close that I will lock this one for you.

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2014, 02:06:33 PM »
Thanks for the lock.  I'm not quite sure what to do with it, but I'm guessing that the firm you are looking for had some connection to Erdmann & Rossi, either through merger, location, and/or personnel.  Like Erdmann & Rossi, Karosserie Friedrich Rometsch was located in Berlin-Halensee, and the designer Johannes Beeskow worked for both (I don't know that he ever had his own company).  So, is the coachbuilder that you are looking for Karosserie Friedrich Rometsch? 

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #29 on: August 09, 2014, 02:11:24 PM »
I'm guessing that the firm you are looking for had some connection to Erdmann & Rossi, either through merger, location, and/or personnel.
Correct, but not Rometsch, even closer to Erdmann & Rossi.

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #30 on: August 09, 2014, 02:47:01 PM »
Hummmm.   I haven't been able to find any Erdmann & Rossi subsidiaries, but I did observe that the Erdmann & Rossi nameplate reads: "Erdmann & Rossi - Jos. Neuss Berlin-Hallensee".  Is this the name that you are looking for?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #31 on: August 09, 2014, 03:44:07 PM »
Could it be as simple as Erdmann & Rossi ?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #32 on: August 09, 2014, 03:55:44 PM »
Could it be as simple as Erdmann & Rossi ?
Sorry, I overlooked 4popoid's reply. Consider it not-sent

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #33 on: August 09, 2014, 04:01:38 PM »
Hummmm.   I haven't been able to find any Erdmann & Rossi subsidiaries, but I did observe that the Erdmann & Rossi nameplate reads: "Erdmann & Rossi - Jos. Neuss Berlin-Hallensee".  Is this the name that you are looking for?
No, one more try before I unlock.

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #34 on: August 18, 2014, 04:10:12 PM »
I can't find any connection to Erdmann & Rossi, but I found another firm located in the same Berlin neighborhood.  How about: Karosserie Maatz, Berlin-Halensee, Germany?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #35 on: August 19, 2014, 10:37:11 AM »
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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #36 on: August 20, 2014, 05:24:19 AM »
Did the Berlin-based company we are looking for seize to exist before 1926 ?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #37 on: August 20, 2014, 05:06:23 PM »
I don't know.

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #38 on: August 21, 2014, 02:45:52 AM »
Am I correct in assuming that this company no longer exists either as a coachbuilder, or otherwise?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #39 on: August 21, 2014, 11:59:10 AM »
The company doesn't exist anymore. Keep close to Erdmann & Rossi!

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #40 on: August 21, 2014, 06:13:10 PM »
Voll & Ruhrbeck?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #41 on: August 21, 2014, 09:22:27 PM »
Karosserie-Werke Boldt & Lieske, Berlin?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #42 on: August 22, 2014, 04:00:20 AM »
No to both

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #43 on: August 22, 2014, 02:40:24 PM »
Alexis Kellner?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #44 on: August 22, 2014, 04:23:06 PM »
No

Remember that it is very closely related to Erdmann & Rossi.

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #45 on: August 22, 2014, 05:25:36 PM »
Peters?

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #46 on: August 22, 2014, 05:29:31 PM »
No

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #47 on: August 22, 2014, 05:35:36 PM »
Ahlemeyer? I do not know of an Erdmann & Rossi connection, but I“m running out of names... :(

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #48 on: August 22, 2014, 05:53:53 PM »
No, it is easier than you might think.

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Re: Wendax 1318
« Reply #49 on: August 22, 2014, 06:03:12 PM »
Just (Willy) Erdmann (before Rossi)????