You know that car?????

Tim West · 14 September 2009, 06:07 PM

I was curious what is the make of the german car we see often ferrying planes about.

tia

Cigogne · 14 September 2009, 07:00 PM

Which one? There were a lot of German auto manufacturers at that time.

Mercedes (of course!)
Benz (at that time, a separate manufacturer!)
Opel
NSU
Horch
Wanderer
Stoewer

and there were more...

Tim West · 14 September 2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cigogne

Which one? There were a lot of German auto manufacturers at that time.

Mercedes (of course!)
Benz (at that time, a separate manufacturer!)
Opel
NSU
Horch
Wanderer
Stoewer

and there were more...

Heh..if I knew I wouldnt have asked

I thought maybe they had a car of choice.

I cant think of any that I can see the Mercedes badge on. How about the most common type? I just need a few sources to model from.

tia

Tim West · 14 September 2009, 10:11 PM

Hi Aaron,

How about this one?

http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/files...screensize.jpg

It's cool of them to post some of their stuff.. huh?

mossie · 15 September 2009, 01:30 AM

I've asked the same question to a specialist vintage car gorup in the UK, on the cars seen in the Fokker photo set. I await a reply.

Flamingo · 15 September 2009, 02:25 AM

This is the standard reference on the subject, but out of print.

Published in 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7.

It has almost 400 pages and shows cars from more than 100 manufacturers.

If you can't see the radiator identification is almost impossible, but even if the radiator is visible in a picture you might id the maker but to find a precise match of model is great luck.

At that time manufacturers usually built the frame and the body might come from elsewhere so there is a great variety of details.

Dimensions are very basic, wheelbase and track, so for a model find a photo taken from the side, use the wheelbase for scale and guess everything else until it looks right.

A drawing of an Austrian car can be found here:

Welcome to Landships! - A site for WW1 Military Hardware & WW1 Military Modelling

beeza · 15 September 2009, 04:18 AM

Hi Tim.

Here is a car ferrying a plane about

I know it's not German but looks pretty cool anyway..

Hope you find what you are looking for.

Cheers

PS. The plane is a prototype de Havilland Moth being towed by a Bullnose Morris driven by test pilot W.L. Hope. It's price in 1925 was 595 pounds.

Des.

FliegerJG1 · 24 September 2009, 04:28 PM

Tim,

The Wanderer Puppchen was a very popular model of car used in the German army during WWI. Opel also made a model by this name. I hope this might help.

FliegerJG1

Raineranton · 27 September 2009, 01:39 PM

From: German Fighter Units 1914-May 1917:

Jagdstaffeln had an establishment of three automobiles of which this Horch 10/30 PS Personenkraftwagen für militärische Zwecke is an example. Vehicles in this class were also manufactured by such firms as Adler-Werke, Benz & Cie., N.A.G., and Phänomen-Werke. The insignia refers to the service rather than to an individual unit.........

Regards

Rainer

AHC-ED · 1 October 2009, 04:55 PM

Whilst on the subject of cars, does anyone know why a lot of the German cars seen in photos of this period were RIGHT-hand drive when presumably the Germans drove on the right-hand side of the road?

I was given one story that the hoi-poloi had left-hand drive, but those in the upper hierachy wanted to be seen to be different -something I find hard to really believe.