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Title: Solved: Wendax 1706 - Opel Motorwagen 16/18 PS System Darracq
Post by: Wendax on September 20, 2015, 03:21:17 AM
Out in the woods.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Post by: Wendax on September 27, 2015, 02:40:20 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on October 04, 2015, 01:33:22 AM
up again
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Post by: Allan L on October 04, 2015, 04:18:58 AM
Looks like a Talbot of about 1904/5 perhaps a 12/16 h.p.
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Post by: 4popoid on October 04, 2015, 06:07:30 AM
German marque?
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Post by: Wendax on October 04, 2015, 04:16:52 PM
Not a Talbot, but German
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Post by: 4popoid on October 04, 2015, 07:24:33 PM
German built Argus rear entry tonneau circa 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on October 05, 2015, 02:22:07 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 05, 2015, 03:02:42 AM
Might this be a circa 1905 Fafnir Omnimobil, or one of the several other brands to which it was sold in modular form?
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Post by: Wendax on October 05, 2015, 03:44:09 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 05, 2015, 01:33:26 PM
FEG (Friedrich Erdmann, Gera) circa 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on October 05, 2015, 02:46:44 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 05, 2015, 03:17:15 PM
Manufactured in Berlin?
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Post by: Wendax on October 05, 2015, 03:44:49 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 05, 2015, 05:03:41 PM
Manufactured in territory that would later become the DDR (or revert to Poland)?
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Post by: Wendax on October 05, 2015, 05:15:36 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 05, 2015, 09:57:46 PM
Manufactured in North Rhine-Westphalia?
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Post by: Wendax on October 06, 2015, 02:27:44 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 06, 2015, 02:47:58 AM
Ducommun circa 1904?
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Post by: Wendax on October 06, 2015, 03:28:43 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 06, 2015, 03:45:45 AM
Noris circa 1903?
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Post by: Wendax on October 06, 2015, 04:02:10 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 06, 2015, 04:17:09 AM
Albrecht circa 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on October 06, 2015, 06:33:10 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 06, 2015, 02:11:32 PM
De Dietrich circa 1903?
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Post by: pnegyesi on October 06, 2015, 02:17:01 PM
Nacke?
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Post by: Wendax on October 06, 2015, 02:55:20 PM
Neither nor
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Post by: 4popoid on October 06, 2015, 03:58:56 PM
Altona circa 1907?
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Post by: Wendax on October 06, 2015, 04:21:18 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 06, 2015, 04:57:36 PM
Rex (Rex-Simplex?) circa 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on October 07, 2015, 02:13:27 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 07, 2015, 02:54:56 AM
Back to geography.  Manufactured in Lower Saxony (including Bremen)?
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Post by: Wendax on October 07, 2015, 02:57:51 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 07, 2015, 11:39:34 AM
Manufactured in Baden-Württemberg?
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Post by: Wendax on October 07, 2015, 12:25:00 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 07, 2015, 12:43:29 PM
Manufactured in Hesse?
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Post by: Wendax on October 07, 2015, 12:52:12 PM
Yes
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Post by: 4popoid on October 07, 2015, 01:30:43 PM
Adler circa 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on October 07, 2015, 01:37:26 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 07, 2015, 01:44:28 PM
Taunus circa 1908?
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Post by: Wendax on October 07, 2015, 02:14:27 PM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 07, 2015, 07:35:23 PM
Manufactured in one of the five independent cities of Hesse?

Opel 10/12 PS circa 1905?
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Post by: Wendax on October 08, 2015, 02:05:52 AM
Opel is correct. I'll have to look up the model tonight. Meanwhile locked for you.
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Post by: Wendax on October 08, 2015, 12:36:21 PM
The year is correct, but it is not a 10/12 PS. Still locked.
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Post by: 4popoid on October 08, 2015, 11:12:17 PM
Thanks for the lock Gerd.  I'm not finding a lot of on-line data for early Opels, and the only picture I can find, that looks like the puzzle photo, is that of the 10/12 PS, hence my submission.  The puzzle photo looks like a smaller car, such as the 2 cyl. 10/12, but the hood looks as if it could house a small four cylinder.  About the same time frame Opel made a small 4 cyl. with about the same displacement as as the 2 cyl., so I'll try a: 1905 Opel 10/14 PS.
Title: Re: Wendax 1706
Post by: Wendax on October 09, 2015, 02:16:51 AM
Not that one
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Post by: 4popoid on October 09, 2015, 03:06:48 AM
Since Opel apparently used both systems, are you looking for a single XX Hp number, or the XX/XX PS system that I have been submitting?
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Post by: Wendax on October 09, 2015, 03:21:46 AM
xx/xx PS  :)
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Post by: 4popoid on October 09, 2015, 03:28:27 AM
OK, then I think I have two choices.  I'll try: 1905 Opel 20/22 PS.
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Post by: Wendax on October 09, 2015, 04:33:10 AM
No
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Post by: 4popoid on October 09, 2015, 12:36:49 PM
Well, this is turning out to be a much larger model than it appears to me.  I believe only other model available at this time was the: 1905 Opel 30/32 PS.
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Post by: Wendax on October 09, 2015, 12:43:23 PM
My books show quite a variety of Opel models in these years. It is not as big as the 30/32 PS, but in between your first two guesses.
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Post by: 4popoid on October 09, 2015, 01:27:55 PM
My references show only one other model available at this time as a tonneau, and the picture that I have of this model has a number of differences in the body details with the puzzle picture.  Perhaps the bodies varied over the production run.  1905 Opel 16/18 PS. 
Title: Re: Wendax 1706
Post by: Wendax on October 09, 2015, 01:34:35 PM
That's the one: