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Offline Paul Jaray

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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #25 on: December 18, 2015, 04:08:56 AM »
Stig Ilberg from Sillerud, just southeast of Arjang, did a small two-seater vehicle in 1951. The car was a completely separate construction with tubular steel frame, transparent flat body with a soft top and mechanical brakes on all wheels. Ilberg had four small wheels, but the rear was sitting close together a la Italian Isetta which was first produced two years later. The engine of 350 cubic came from a motorcycle and power transmission occurred by means of chain.
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #26 on: December 18, 2015, 04:14:21 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 18, 2015, 04:08:56 AM
Stig Ilberg from Sillerud, just southeast of Arjang, did a small two-seater vehicle in 1951. The car was a completely separate construction with tubular steel frame, transparent flat body with a soft top and mechanical brakes on all wheels. Ilberg had four small wheels, but the rear was sitting close together a la Italian Isetta which was first produced two years later. The engine of 350 cubic came from a motorcycle and power transmission occurred by means of chain.

But that's a different vehicle from the puzzle car?
On what was the puzzle car based?
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #27 on: December 18, 2015, 02:40:56 PM »
According to the book, he built that car in 1951 and was powered by a 350cc motorcycle engine. Looking at the pic (that is not in the book) the description seems to fit. There is not a base car there...I won't be surprised if it is based on a  pedal car.
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #28 on: December 18, 2015, 03:37:54 PM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 17, 2015, 02:03:12 PM
it's a struggle to get a point these days...

On old good days gone it was enough to say what is the car - make & model + builder, if needed. Now there are 3-5 questions to answer for one and the same - single point! Looks like the best way to answer all those questions is just to write a complete article about the mystery car. Why is that so?

I believe those requests to detail answers stop many of us those few still active members even from trying their luck because there will be no extra points for extra info - only single point no matter how much time and effort you put into finding answers to questions. I just want to remind that not everyone has hours of spare time to sit down and dig for those answers. This can be just a couple of minutes a week....
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #29 on: December 18, 2015, 07:14:22 PM »
It's just that puzzlers seem to be able to answer what I think of as almost impossible puzzles with ridiculous ease so I try to make the puzzles more difficult and make these real professional puzzlers work for their point..
Most of my puzzles are solved with barely a question asked so I have to think of ways to make them real brain-teasers.
No-one is forced to take part..
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #30 on: December 21, 2015, 04:42:51 AM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on December 18, 2015, 02:40:56 PM
According to the book, he built that car in 1951 and was powered by a 350cc motorcycle engine. Looking at the pic (that is not in the book) the description seems to fit. There is not a base car there...I won't be surprised if it is based on a  pedal car.

In view of Arunas's remarks perhaps I should give a point to the one who has posted most information so far, who is Wendax.
I still won't call this puzzle solved however as there is one question still to be answered, which can be by anyone.

This is the information I have about this car, most of which has already been given here in replies:

"This small car is a one-off built by Stig Ihlberg in Sillerund, Sweden 1948-49.
It was very popular in Sweden at that time to build from parts left in the yard.  HPD is short for in Swedish "Hop-Plockade-Delar" which translates as "Gathered picked parts".  All these types of cars got the name, when registered for road, HPD and a number.  This car got the registered identification HPD Special ***** *****.  It had a two-stroke 19 PS engine and weighed 440 kg.  The car was scrapped in 1957.  It had a pipe frame and on this a welded plate chassis.  The plates were taken from a *****."

Who can convert the *s into the missing words?  Points are there for the taking!
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #31 on: January 12, 2016, 09:28:49 AM »
Hello

Not all home made cars in Sweden during this period were called HPD in the registration documents. Only a few. HPD was meant in a condescending notion. The cars often got named after their builders surname, usually in addition with "Special" or "Sport".
Best Regards
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #32 on: January 12, 2016, 09:40:54 AM »
Quote from: cljo on January 12, 2016, 09:28:49 AM
Hello

Not all home made cars in Sweden during this period were called HPD in the registration documents. Only a few. HPD was meant in a condescending notion. The cars often got named after their builders surname, usually in addition with "Special" or "Sport".
Best Regards

Thanks.
I'm just looking for the numbers allocated to the car; any ideas?
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Re: NEH 4352
« Reply #33 on: October 13, 2016, 05:46:23 AM »
Time to move this to the Black Hole to see if anyone can answer the questions posed in Reply #30.
Points have already been awarded for the most comprehensive answer so far.
If nobody can get the remaining questions after a couple of weeks I might declare this solved, fill in the missing numbers and move this to 'Solved'.
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