 This Saturdays Quiz-Car is a very modern one for its time. Its titular saint was an engineer who started his career at a marquee located in Aachen/Aix la Chapelle. The car on the picture was the prototype, built in 1924. The car was powered by a 1500ccm straight four OHV-engine. Production and materials were very expensive and so was the car. It was entitled to be "the car for the bank manager, who doesn´t want to take his Maybach for every tour". About 15 cars were built until one of the sponsors of the project passed away in 1926 and the production was stopped. Only eight cars were sold, the other seven sadly were scrapped. Some more hints: Most known pictures show a very elegant roadster, but in 1925 two other versions were presented: a limousine and a cabriolet, both with bodys by Alexis Kellner. And next to the already mentioned engine, a sleeve-valve "counter-piston" engine was built. It sadly seems that none of the eight cars survived, even if a limousine was used as a cab a long time and our engineer still drove a roadster during the 1950s.
You know this fantastic car built between 1924 and 1926? Don´t hesitate and leave your answer in a comment before Monday and use no more than 100 words to collect some more points for our six-month challenge! Words and photographs by Hubertus Hansmann. |
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What is it? Quiz #462
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