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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #25 on: November 05, 2017, 03:51:30 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #26 on: November 05, 2017, 06:15:21 AM »
Is the builder known for other cars ?

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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #27 on: November 05, 2017, 06:23:39 AM »
Yes, the guesses so far are all in the right area, but one name is missing.

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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #28 on: November 05, 2017, 06:41:04 AM »
Arthur Rudolph?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #29 on: November 05, 2017, 06:42:23 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #30 on: November 05, 2017, 07:05:11 AM »
Most of the names I have found worked on rocket motors but there is no record of them building cars, so these are just guesses.

Friedrich Sander?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #31 on: November 05, 2017, 07:58:04 AM »
Yes, locked for you to find out which chassis he used.

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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #32 on: November 05, 2017, 10:39:21 AM »
Yes, locked for you to find out which chassis he used.

I cannot find any reference to this car. Was it built on an old chassis from a German maker?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #33 on: November 05, 2017, 12:14:31 PM »
Not from a German maker, but built on a used car's chassis.

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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #34 on: November 06, 2017, 06:34:31 AM »
Austro-Daimler?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #35 on: November 06, 2017, 06:39:18 AM »
No, but it was an Austrian chassis.

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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #36 on: November 06, 2017, 06:49:13 AM »
Graf und Stift?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #37 on: November 06, 2017, 07:39:34 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #38 on: November 06, 2017, 08:13:56 AM »
Puch?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #39 on: November 06, 2017, 08:38:06 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #40 on: November 06, 2017, 11:57:23 AM »
Steyr?
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Re: Wendax 2376
« Reply #41 on: November 06, 2017, 02:42:41 PM »
Yes, it is a 1930 Sander-Raketenauto built on a Steyr chassis (probably Typ IV). The car followed the lines of the Opel Rak 2.

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Re: Solved: Wendax 2376 - Sander-Raketenauto on a Steyr chassis
« Reply #42 on: November 06, 2017, 05:00:47 PM »
The driver was Rudolf Schlüter and the photo was taken on 1 May 1930 at Wedderwarden airfield.