Topic: Solved- NEH 5015: Rometsch VW 4-door Limousine

[Carnut]

I know this has been seen before, but the answer then seems to have been slightly different from what I'm looking for...
What is it, by whom, from when - for 1 point?:

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[Lorenzo721]

Without trying to check what has been proposed before, I'd say maybe a taxicab Beetle by Rometsch?

[Carnut]

Without trying to check what has been proposed before, I'd say maybe a taxicab Beetle by Rometsch?

Rometsch is right, yes.
It was said to be a taxi before but I believe was not identified as by Rometsch and is described as something other than a taxi this time...!
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[Lorenzo721]

The advertisement from which your picture is taken does not propose more details; it simply reads: "Rometsch conversion - with 4 doors and extended chassis from the standard VW sedan". True that there's no specific mention of its exclusive use as a taxi, and I also found a mention of a Rometsch limousine, though I doubt seeing the inside of the taxicab that a partition could be installed, so I guess this is more a bad translation of German and is more likely a four-door saloon. If the pictured car has been intended for a more specific role, I do not know, so I cannot come up with a better answer than four-door saloon...

[Carnut]

I'll give you that.
I think the word "limousine" means different things in different languages.
Although it refers to a luxury car in English, usually very spacious, I believe it only means "saloon" in German, but one with 4 doors rather than 2?
So it is a Rometsch VW 4-door Limousine, which is what I was looking for.

I'll have to merge it I think; it's interesting to read through the previous puzzle, where there was some discussion about why it was referred to as a "Messerschmitt" in some places...

[Lorenzo721]

Thanks.

Yes "Limousine" is "saloon" in German, the same term applying with either 2 or 4 doors. So even the standard Volkswagen is a limousine in its own country (2-Türen Limousine = two-door saloon)! Hence my suspicion that the English description of the Rometsch "limousine" is actually a poor translation from the German...

[Carnut]

This was the source of the picture for my puzzle (below); it's now in a thread entitled 'Taxi' but I don't think the car in my puzzle was particularly intended as a taxi...

[grobmotorix]

it's now in a thread entitled 'Taxi' but I don't think the car in my puzzle was particularly intended as a taxi...

It was ONLY intended to work as a taxi!
I think I read somewhere that in Germany a Taxi needs to have a door next to every seat row.

A normal Beetle only has two doors but 2 rows of seats, so Rometsch built 38 taxi versions for Berlin based taxi companies...

[Wendax]

Another view:

[grobmotorix]

And another one: