Topic: Solved: Wendax 1510 - Horch 8 Geländewagen Typ 40

[Wendax]

A winter car.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Wendax]

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[Wendax]

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[4popoid]

A Horch three axle military staff care (shown with rear axles being connected with track) being tested by the Soviet Red Army in about 1927.

[Wendax]

It is the Horch you mentioned. It has a generic German name though. Locked for you.

[4popoid]

Not sure what you are looking for Gerd.  I speak very little German (although my father spoke only German, actually Switzerdeutsch, until about age but how about: Horch Geländefahrzeug?

[Wendax]

Close enough, it is called Horch 8 Geländewagen.

One more point for you.

[Bill Murray]

Sigh....

It really is too bad we have to sleep sometime.

I had this one but Spence stayed up till about 0200 his time to answer the puzzle.

In any case, this is a Horch 8 Typ 40 of which some 60 were made to slightly differing specifications during the period
1926-1928.  As Spence says, your photo dates from 1927 when Germany was conducting "secret" tests in Russia
to circumvent the Treaty of Versailles laws regarding Germany's re-arming.

Below are two more photos, I apologize for the watermarks as I don't know how to remove them.

One is the same vehicle from a different angle and I assume from the same website that Gerd got it from.
The other is a Reichswehr registered vehicle and the photo would have to have been made some years later
when Germany decided to ignore some parts of the Treaty of Versailles.

Bill

[Wendax]

The unmodified picture:

[Wendax]

I added the Typ 40 classification to the title. Thanks, Bill.

Together with the Horch there were similar cars built by Selve (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=28031) and Mercedes-Benz (http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=14740) extensively tested by the Reichswehr.

[4popoid]

Sigh....

It really is too bad we have to sleep sometime.

I had this one but Spence stayed up till about 0200 his time to answer the puzzle.

In any case, this is a Horch 8 Typ 40 of which some 60 were made to slightly differing specifications during the period
1926-1928.  As Spence says, your photo dates from 1927 when Germany was conducting "secret" tests in Russia
to circumvent the Geneva Convention laws regarding Germany's re-arming.

Below are two more photos, I apologize for the watermarks as I don't know how to remove them.

One is the same vehicle from a different angle and I assume from the same website that Gerd got it from.
The other is a Reichswehr registered vehicle and the photo would have to have been made some years later
when Germany decided to ignore some parts of the Geneva Convention.

Bill

Sorry Bill.  Actually it was a little after 0300, but whatever the case it was way too late for most in the "New World".  Unfortunately if we in the "New World" don't readjust our schedules to that of the "Old World" the vast majority of puzzles are snapped up before we ever see them in the Pro category.  Fortunately, now that I am old and retired, I can readjust my schedule with only minor objection from my wife, who is more of an "owl" than I am.  I am sure that, as our resident truck expert, you will soon be able to snarf up a couple of Gerd's brain teasers (How about Wendax 1499?).

Spence

[Bill Murray]

Thanks for the kind words, Spence.  I do hope you understand my remarks were meant in jest/as a bit of a joke.

BTW, I have corrected my post with regard to the re-arming of Germany.
It was the Treaty of Versailles, not the Geneva Convention that restricted her re-arming.  The Geneva Convention
is an attempt to lay out the "Do's and Don'ts" of the conduct of warfare. Unfortunately, not 100% successful either.
More evidence that as I get older, I mix things up more often.

Regarding WEN1499, I think I know what it is I just can't find out who made it and what it was called.

And, just like you and many other "P" level players, I have 6 puzzles solved but must wait to see if they
come up to the "P" level when I am still awake

Bill