Topic: TGF-340 : Opel Admiral hearse, perhaps Schreiner Karosseriewerke

[targhediferro]

Can you identify this vehicle? Make, model (very easy) and coachbuilder needed.

[targhediferro]

I had a better check to my source, and I must confess I've not a sure proof about the coachbuilder, so I will give the point to the quizzed who will be able to give me the proof I miss.

[Bill Murray]

Fabrizio:

I really wonder if we will ever find the coachbuilder.  I have looked for two hours and I have some pretty good source materiel but have found nothing.

So, in case you decide to skip that part of the quiz at some later time............

Prewar Opel Admiral in use by Beerdigungsinstitut Nikl. Dubreuil in St. Wendel, Saar Germany.  The photo was probably taken in 1949-1950.

I will continue to look for a coachbuilder.

Bill

[targhediferro]

Bill: if you have no clue about the coachbuilder (and you've got the right car, because it was indeed an hearse used by Dubreuil in St.Wendel) I think that it will be actually very difficult to find the correct answer. I think I will soon move it to Pro's section in order to see if someone can add something or post a picture of other Opel Admiral vans and hearses and give us some ideas. If nobody will be able to find the correct answer I will award you the point because you obviously found the right car.

[Bill Murray]

Fabrizio:

I totally agree and I would like to know the coachbuilder as well but, as said earlier, I have done a lot of investigation and did not find an answer.

The SAAR website did mention that it may have been a "leftover" from the Second World War and I have somewhere a book on military coachwork done by various German coachbuilders that I will try to find and see if there is an answer there.

[targhediferro]

Does anybody know something more about this car?

[Bill Murray]

OK, I cannot find your puzzle photo with a definite connection to this coachbuilder, but the SAAR site in other areas mentions the company multiple times as the coach builder for a wide range of bodies including other hearses on other chassis.

So, is our builder Karosseriewerke Schreiner??

Bill

[targhediferro]

Yes Bill, that was my first opinion when I posted this quiz; than I understood there wasn't a proof about that conclusion.
Anyway I think you did all the job I requested, so I award you the point for the quiz.
I move this one to the black hole: if someone will be able to give me a proof about the very coachbuilder of this car he will receive another point.