Topic: Wendax 439 - Articulated bus by Gaubschat?

[Wendax]

A puzzle for heavy metal fans 
I don't know this bus I photographed in 1989. It looks a little bit like a Kässbohrer body, but there is a (ski?) cabinet at the back and the door is behind the front axle, a feature that usually disappeared about 1950.

For one point, please respond and prove your identification.

[grobmotorix]

Looks familiar in some way.

Has it been a race transporter or service mobile in its earlier life?

[Wendax]

I really don't know. I just saw it in this state in a rear corner of the long gone Güterbahnhof Hamburg-Barmbek.

[Carnut]

I would say it's a converted bus, perhaps used for carrying bicycles or something tall and narrow?

[guido66]

To me it looks like it once was an articulated bus, now separated from it's trailer and perhaps converted into a mobile home?

[Wendax]

That's a possibility I hadn't thought of yet. Gaubschat built similar ones:

[Carnut]

I think that's it, yes.
It has the cutout for all the drawbar gubbins under the doorway.

[guido66]

I'm positive it's a Gaubschat. All the others seem to have a harmonica over the full width of the bus. I've found this slighty different Faun also with the door behind the front axle.

[Wendax]

I feel generous and give you a point for that articulated bus hint, but I leave this still open for a final identification of the puzzle bus.

[guido66]

Thanks! 

[GrahamClayton]

Is it a Bussing? The example below looks pretty close - the headlights are in the same place, as well as the design of the destination board:

[Wendax]

I don't think so. Those items were quite common, but Büssing buses usually didn't have a large "hood panel" in the front , because their engines were located "underfloor".

[Wendax]

Open for all

[Wendax]

Off it goes