Solved FW #56 Borgward B1250 Malkemper

[fromwien]

---and for the short Christmas trip...

Please identify this bus for one point

[fromwien]

Experts?

[knewit]

German

[fromwien]

Yes

[knewit]

Borgward B1250 , but no clue about the coachbuilder

[fromwien]

First part done: Borgward B1250 is correct. Please find the coachbuilder! LOCKED for 'knewit'

[knewit]

No idea 
perhaps made by Thiele, Bremen who did some other jobs for Borgward.

[fromwien]

Not that! You have two more trials...

[knewit]

please unlock

[fromwien]

Ok, unlocked

[thorax]

Miesen?

[fromwien]

Not Miesen

[sichel]

Malkemper

[fromwien]

Correct Sichel! Congratulation and welcome at 'AutoPuzzles'! Here is your first point

[pnegyesi]

Here it says Opel Blitz based

[Wendax]

Then this old article must be wrong. You can recognize the Borgward-B at the front end of the hood.

[sichel]

The photo of pnegyesi can be found in two books. In both cases, Dieter Malkämper is named as the source of the photo and the basis is a Borgward B 1250. The customer is said to have been the bus operator Büsch.
And Borgward does not rule out Opel as the basis. For reasons of economic production, it was not unusual to mount the same design and the same body on different chassis. In this case, it was probably a good fit, because the wheel arches, for example, were very similar. Borgward B 1250: 3200 mm, Opel Blitz 1.5 t: 3250 mm.