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Solved TGF-456: GM Nordiska prototype, 1943
« on: February 12, 2015, 04:59:34 AM »
Can you identify this beautiful truck?
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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2015, 06:37:43 AM »
Up.

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2015, 06:39:01 AM »
I know I've seen it before.  :(

Maschinenfabrik Esslingen?

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2015, 06:44:02 AM »
I suppose You have just seen almost everything with three and four wheels...but it's not a Maschinenfabrik Esslingen.

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2015, 06:48:29 AM »
German at all?

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2015, 06:53:44 AM »
Not German.

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2015, 06:56:44 AM »
Italian? If so, then Auto-Lux?

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2015, 07:49:41 AM »
Not italian.

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2015, 08:08:59 AM »
ASEA from Sweden?
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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2015, 10:03:48 AM »
GM Nordiska truck prototype from 1943

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Re: TGF-456
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2015, 10:34:18 AM »
Even if it looks like an ASEA very much, it is not...because it's a GM Nordiska prototype. I don't know if ASEA and GM had some connections, but the name I have is the one guessed by Pguillem, so the point is him.

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Re: Solved TGF-456: GM Nordiska prototype, 1943
« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2015, 01:05:56 PM »
It is a GM prototype from GM Nordiska even though it was not based on any US GM vehicle.

Two were built according to my research and not finding any sort of a market, they were relegated to being used as trailers inside the GM factory.

Bill
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