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Re: FW #31
« Reply #75 on: January 10, 2022, 04:47:25 AM »
Ernteporter?

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #76 on: January 10, 2022, 07:53:05 AM »
No

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #77 on: January 10, 2022, 07:58:16 AM »
Is the name a combination with "-porter" ending at all?

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #78 on: January 10, 2022, 10:03:48 AM »
Yes, it is

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #79 on: January 10, 2022, 10:36:14 AM »
First part in German?

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #80 on: January 10, 2022, 12:35:46 PM »
For underground use?
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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

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #81 on: January 10, 2022, 01:17:59 PM »
Not to find in the "German Duden"...in several forms used as a prefix

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #82 on: January 10, 2022, 01:18:45 PM »
Use in underground military installations?
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

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #83 on: January 10, 2022, 01:39:37 PM »
No, 'Wendax' is/was on the right way

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Re: FW #31
« Reply #84 on: January 10, 2022, 01:58:26 PM »
agroporter by Bonvin, 1960
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Re: FW #31
« Reply #85 on: January 10, 2022, 03:01:14 PM »
 :applause: That's it! One more point for 'pnegyesi' :applause:

Whenever I have another manufacturer on the car's identification plate. See picture attached
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Re: SOLVED: FW #31: Agroporter Type 60, 1962
« Reply #86 on: January 10, 2022, 04:27:10 PM »
So the Swiss patent search is available only after 2008.

But I can tell you that Faboz was a company set up in late 1960 by Jean Zufferey, a local car guy and sometimes racer with the intent on producing such vehicles in Sierre. It seems to me that Rene Bonvin was a local dealer of various stuff.
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