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About quiz #184 ... <br>1913/14 Oryx ! (UPDATE II: headlights of Podues not Protos)
Erik Hougsrud from Norway is desperately looking to find parts for the remains of his early Oryx ! And probably is going to list his advert in our
wanted section but he was kind enough not to spill the soup and first gave room to this quiz. Many competitors and jurymembers were stumped by the last hint on this one that the make name was that of an
African animal. Still we had in several correct answers. Not strange that most of those came from Scandinavia where the car is to be found on the website of the Norway Veteran Car Club... ( hey Erik you should have told us about this :-)) Anyway in the end we decided that Verner Johnsen from Denmark came up with the best answer: "1914 Oryx Model 10/30 - 2,6l Berliner Motorwagen-Fabrik produced Gottschalk cars and commercials from 1900 to 1901. From then the cars were named BMF. In 1907 the cars were renamed Oryx (Oryx is a kind of antelope). The trucks were named Eryx after a mountain on Sicily. In 1909 the factory was taken over by Dürkopp and renamed Oryx-Motorenwerke, and Oryx continued building their own models up to WWI. After the war the factory became a part of Dürkopp, and the passenger cars were discontinued in 1922." Congratulations Verner!, after two earlier wins you are in the jury now as well. Long time jury member Hans Compter was the only one to remind us of the earlier Oryx at PreWarCar: "The make of the car in # 184 was already spotted once before by me with the vet's car in Hellevoetsluis
(quiz N° 73))...
UPDATE by Kjetil Langsaether: "Does Erik know that the headlights for the Oryx most probarly exists? If I am not mistaken they where lent by a prevoius owner of the Podeus (not Protos) car in Norway. The Protos can be found at
Norsk Teknisk Museum."
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Friday, 30 June 2006
Erik Hougsrud from Norway is desperately looking to find parts for the remains of his early Oryx ! And probably is going to list his advert in our wanted section but he was kind enough not to spill the soup and first gave room to this quiz. Many competitors and jurymembers were stumped by the last hint on this one that the make name was that of an African animal. Still we had in several correct answers. Not strange that most of those came from Scandinavia where the car is to be found on the website of the Norway Veteran Car Club... ( hey Erik you should have told us about this :-)) Anyway in the end we decided that Verner Johnsen from Denmark came up with the best answer: "1914 Oryx Model 10/30 - 2,6l Berliner Motorwagen-Fabrik produced Gottschalk cars and commercials from 1900 to 1901. From then the cars were named BMF. In 1907 the cars were renamed Oryx (Oryx is a kind of antelope). The trucks were named Eryx after a mountain on Sicily. In 1909 the factory was taken over by Dürkopp and renamed Oryx-Motorenwerke, and Oryx continued building their own models up to WWI. After the war the factory became a part of Dürkopp, and the passenger cars were discontinued in 1922." Congratulations Verner!, after two earlier wins you are in the jury now as well. Long time jury member Hans Compter was the only one to remind us of the earlier Oryx at PreWarCar: "The make of the car in # 184 was already spotted once before by me with the vet's car in Hellevoetsluis (quiz N° 73))... 
