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Title: Solved: Wendax 2431 - Leesdorfer Break by Armbruster
Post by: Wendax on December 11, 2017, 02:37:25 AM
Predating the Ghia Jollys by a few years.

For one point, please respond and identify car and coachbuilder.
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on December 18, 2017, 02:25:22 AM
up
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Fёdor on December 18, 2017, 04:16:35 AM

 De Dietrich?
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on December 18, 2017, 05:36:17 AM
Yes, locked for you to name the coachbuilder.
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Fёdor on December 18, 2017, 01:21:41 PM
German coachbuilder
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on December 18, 2017, 04:11:22 PM
No
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Post by: Fёdor on December 20, 2017, 11:34:59 AM

  French? ...Felber
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on December 20, 2017, 02:40:29 PM
No, one more guess before I unlock
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Fёdor on December 20, 2017, 03:06:50 PM
Labourdette
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on December 20, 2017, 04:00:59 PM
Sorry, no.

Unlocked and open for all experts again.
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Fёdor on January 02, 2018, 08:47:09 AM
Mühlbacher
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on January 02, 2018, 08:54:09 AM
No
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Post by: richard cuyler on January 02, 2018, 01:13:02 PM
Interesting how wheel design has gone full circle. Ugly then, ugly now.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Fёdor on January 03, 2018, 03:34:46 PM
Kellner
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on January 03, 2018, 04:28:11 PM
No
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Post by: Wendax on January 17, 2018, 02:51:11 AM
up again
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Post by: ropat53 on January 17, 2018, 09:25:01 AM
Vedrine?
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on January 17, 2018, 09:36:32 AM
No
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Post by: ropat53 on January 17, 2018, 12:36:18 PM
Rothschild?
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Post by: Wendax on January 17, 2018, 02:49:20 PM
No
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Post by: ropat53 on January 17, 2018, 07:51:23 PM
Belvallette?
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Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2018, 02:15:07 AM
No
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Post by: ropat53 on January 18, 2018, 06:30:52 AM
Driguet & Frères?
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2018, 06:35:50 AM
No
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: ropat53 on January 18, 2018, 07:29:59 AM
Well known French coachbuilder or obscure?
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2018, 07:57:42 AM
Not a French coachbuilder at all
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: pnegyesi on January 18, 2018, 08:32:20 AM
Was it a German coachbuilder?
Title: Re: Wendax 2431
Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2018, 08:52:09 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on January 18, 2018, 01:15:43 PM
perhaps an Austrian coachbuilder?
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Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2018, 01:31:48 PM
Yes
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Post by: pnegyesi on January 18, 2018, 03:48:35 PM
Karl Czerny?
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Post by: Wendax on January 18, 2018, 04:08:37 PM
No
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Post by: ropat53 on January 18, 2018, 06:28:52 PM
Lohner?
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Post by: Wendax on January 19, 2018, 02:29:28 AM
No
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Post by: Fёdor on January 19, 2018, 03:35:29 AM
Armbruster
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Post by: Wendax on January 19, 2018, 05:30:56 AM
Yes, correct!
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2431 - De Dietrich tonneau by Armbruster
Post by: Wendax on January 19, 2018, 11:46:53 AM
The source picture:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2431 - De Dietrich tonneau by Armbruster
Post by: pnegyesi on January 20, 2018, 12:10:35 AM
Are you sure this is an original De Dietrich chassis? I barely had time to be here, but ever since I saw this puzzle I have this nagging feeling. Now we know that it was bodied in Austria by Armbruster, I have a feeling this is a car which was put together by the Leesdorfer Automobil Werke in Leesdorf near Baden, which produced cars under licence from De Dietrich beginning in 1900.

In 1903 the company went bankrupt. Apparently its assets have been bought by a Hungarian company, which launched its own automobile production using these parts.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2431 - De Dietrich tonneau by Armbruster
Post by: Wendax on January 21, 2018, 03:27:43 AM
 :doh: I even posted a Leesdorfer as a puzzle once. I'll change the title and add a point to your account too.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2431 - Leesdorfer tonneau by Armbruster
Post by: Fёdor on January 21, 2018, 07:12:36 AM
there are similarities
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 2431 - Leesdorfer tonneau by Armbruster
Post by: Wendax on January 21, 2018, 07:52:25 AM
I'd even say that it is the same car.