Author Topic: Solved -PJ760- Åke Seyffarth on the 1st Effyh at Stockholm stadium, 1948  (Read 1904 times)

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Who is that?
Where are they?
When?
(and for a bonus point: who built it? I do not know :/ )

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2020, 11:52:24 AM »
Might this be  the Zell am See ice race; at a guess Otto Mathe in the Fetzenflieger mid to late 50s, but I suspect not from the wording of your question.
The more I consider the nature of speed, the more mysterious I find it.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2020, 12:08:09 PM »
. . .no, not Otto.
The more I consider the nature of speed, the more mysterious I find it.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2020, 06:18:26 AM »
Not that...pretty obscure. Built before 50s and not in Austria.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2020, 08:27:57 AM »
Experts?

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2020, 10:32:43 AM »
Swedish?

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2020, 05:36:20 AM »
Swedish?
The picture was taken in Stockholm.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2020, 04:57:46 PM »
A swedish built 500-racer?

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2020, 06:00:26 PM »
I know just who, where and when.  :-\

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2020, 04:47:37 AM »
First choice: Nellemann's Silverbird, 1947?

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2020, 06:46:33 AM »
Nellemann is not the name I have.
I do not know if that's the Silverbird.
The year is not 1947.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2020, 07:00:05 AM »
A stupid mistake, made by me: Robert Nellemann was a Danish driver and car builder... but his Silverbird was a modified copy of a Swedish 500cc-car:
Is this car an Effyh, made by the Hakanson Brothers in Sweden? Perhaps 1950?

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2020, 08:28:41 AM »
I do not have the name of the car. I Know who is driving it, where and when...and it's not Hakanson and not in 1950.
I tried to match this picture with hundreds of similar cars, but with no luck (and not too much effort, to be honest).
I hope finding the driver and the venue will help to identify the car too.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2021, 04:19:04 PM »
Pros?

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2021, 09:39:01 PM »
Lake Flaten, 1949?
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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2021, 09:13:57 AM »
Just a guess - Sven Andersson ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2021, 02:17:39 PM »
Lake Flaten, 1949?
I know the picture was taken in Stockholm, that's all.
Just a guess - Sven Andersson ?
Not the name I have.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2021, 02:56:00 PM »
Greger Lutterman ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2021, 08:54:46 AM »
Not him.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2021, 11:43:54 AM »
Is the location Handen ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #20 on: January 27, 2021, 03:10:48 PM »
It was a particular place in Stockholm, and with place I mean ...building (sort of).

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #21 on: January 27, 2021, 04:00:57 PM »
Solvalla trotting track ?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #22 on: January 28, 2021, 04:11:05 PM »
Solvalla trotting track ?
Nope...a _______ in Stockholm. Not a trotting track.

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2021, 04:44:23 PM »
Ice rink/ice hockey stadium?
I must be right - that's what it says on Wikipedia

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Re: PJ - 760
« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2021, 12:05:31 AM »
Åke Jönsson at the Stockholm stadium, 1948? (I suspect these images all show Jönsson with the very first Effyh built by the Håkansson Brothers.)
« Last Edit: January 31, 2021, 02:11:28 AM by gte4289 »