Solved -PJ478- Trautwein Duofront, 1955

Started by Paul Jaray, December 03, 2012, 12:55:55 PM

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Paul Jaray

Not Zundapp or any other known one.

kwgibbs

any heinkel connection?

Paul Jaray

You are all looking in the wrong direction...no Heinkel.

Wendax

Is it motorcycle-based?


Wendax


Paul Jaray

Find the builder and how he called his vehicle(s), that's all you need for a point.
I don't know much about this model in particular.

Otto Puzzell

You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Paul Jaray

Not him...
Big clue: the builder spent his life with these kind of vehicles...

Otto Puzzell

#34
It probably doesn't resonate with our European members, but that guy looks just like Kenny Bania.  :D

You wanna be the man, you gotta Name That Car!

Paul Jaray

I'm surprised this one is still unsolved.
That man build a number of vehicles like that...if you google his name there are dozens of results!

pnegyesi

The man is Wolfgang Trautwein, this is his first Duofront, based on a Norton motorcycle, built in 1955

Paul Jaray

What took you so long?  ;D
Correct, one more point for you.

Carnut

Interests in life:  Cars, cars, cars - oh and ..er..cars

grobmotorix

Oh, I had this one as the 1955 Dominator... :o


Paul Jaray

Now that I see this pic I realized I have it also as "Kurvenneiger" from a well known (and often wrong or unaccurate) site.

dzima1985


DeAutogids

Quote from: Paul Jaray on April 03, 2013, 04:55:49 PM
Now that I see this pic I realized I have it also as "Kurvenneiger" from a well known (and often wrong or unaccurate) site.
Well it does do that, the vehicle can tilt in corners like a motorbike, but all wheels stay connected to the road. Only recently have we seen this commercially available.

Wendax

Grob's picture with some more background:

sichel

#44
Here two more photos taken in 1955 on "Solitude", Stuttgart, Germany.
Carl Hertweck, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine "das Motorrad", on a short test-drive and demonstrating the inclination in curves.

The vehicle had the original-parts of a Norton 500 Dominator-Twin from the steering-head to the rear. Instead of the front fork, there was a suspension of two 16''-wheels which could be inclined parallel in curves. Up to approx. 40 km/
h, the tilt function was blocked by a lever.
This lock then had to be released manually by the driver, and, of course, had to be locked again before stopping, otherwise...

C.H. the driving behaviour of this vehicle was so suspicious that he forbade his employees to drive with it.
But one of them (Ernst Leverkus, called "Klacks") begged until he was allowed to drive, but only "very, very carefully".

Anyone who knows a little about Klacks, can imagine how long this warning lasted.
At 130-140 km/h, it went through a gentle downhill right-hand bend and he left the road with his right front wheel (he had probably forgotten that this 'Domi' had two front wheels), due to the movement during bouncing the latch snapped in the vertical position, the vehicle left the roadway and whizzed down a slope. Klacks was ejected and probably only suffered only bruises.
When he arrived back at the top in a reasonably good condition, he was first embraced by his boss and then shat together.



Ein Henschel zieht am Berg und ein Mercedes
an den Türen. (and an attempt of a translation):
A Henschel in rushing up the hill, wheras in a Mercedes wind is rushing through the doors. c/o norberthanke