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Solved: Wendax 2816 - Elecar TE-4 by Teikoku Electric Mfg Co
« on: February 14, 2019, 02:37:54 AM »
Basic transportation.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2019, 02:52:49 AM »
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2019, 02:56:14 AM »
1947 Teikoku Electric Car
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2019, 02:58:12 AM »
Yes, locked for you to add the model "name".
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2019, 04:27:52 AM »
Do you mean "Ereka"?
That's a translation of what it says on Wikipedia Japan but we all know how misleading Wikipedia can be.
I think that is an abbreviation of "Erectric Car" rather than an actual name given to it by Teikoku...!  Teikoku's own website simply refers to it as "Teikoku Electric Car".
Below are some more details of this car which as far as I'm aware are completely accurate:

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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2019, 04:42:12 AM »
I am looking for the "usual" two-letters-hyphen-one-digit type denomination.
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2019, 06:17:52 AM »
Quote from: Wendax on February 21, 2019, 04:42:12 AM
I am looking for the "usual" two-letters-hyphen-one-digit type denomination.

This car is shown/mentioned on a small handful of websites including Teikoku's own website, a website about electric Japanese cars of the period and Teikoku's German site, but none of them show any such denomination.

I have a very comprehensive book about Japanese cars of this period and it makes no mention of such a denomination in this particular car's history, so I can't imagine where you have got it from.

I can't find it so I'll have to leave it for someone else.  Thanks so far.
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2019, 06:27:19 AM »
Well, we've got some cars from Teikoku before. One of them has a very similar name, just differing in the number by one.
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2019, 08:29:35 AM »
OK, thanks.
Let's try TE-4 then.
Incidentally, that name I found before "Ereka" actually translates from Japanese as "Electric Car", which is what Teikoku called it!
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Re: Wendax 2816
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2019, 09:04:31 AM »
That's it!
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