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About quiz 221: NSU 6/18
From experience we know that it is very difficult to determine the make of a car by just looking at the chassis. And we didn’t make it easy for you by showing some small black & white images. And our “misleading” clue that the company manufactured pipes was only seen through by Jurymember Mark Dawber. He told us he was initially confused when we -deliberately- wrote pipes with a small 'p' which made him think of water pipes. When checking out those makers who did both pre-WW1cars and bikes, he found a reference to Belgian Pipe cars and thus knew the chassis had to be a NSU. And indeed it was the German company NSU who started car manufacture in 1905 by building the
Pipe (svvs.org) under licence. According to the owner of this chassis it is a 1912 NSU 16/18. But again your answers set us thinking, so we contacted NSU-expert Horst Schultz from the
Autovision Museum. He is certain that the
engine was offered from September 1913; that the
chassis with bolt-on wire-wheels was also sold as from September and that the radiator is the old style that came from the Belgian Pipe. These were used for NSU-cars from 1906 up to 1912. After that date the design changed. Still, we had three contestants (not surprisingly all from Germany) who came up with the name NSU. We think this is quite a feat, so we decided to award all three the PreWarCar T-shirt. Congratulations to Uwe Bauer, Ingo Jost and Harry Schley!
(RB)
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Friday, 07 March 2008
From experience we know that it is very difficult to determine the make of a car by just looking at the chassis. And we didn’t make it easy for you by showing some small black & white images. And our “misleading” clue that the company manufactured pipes was only seen through by Jurymember Mark Dawber. He told us he was initially confused when we -deliberately- wrote pipes with a small 'p' which made him think of water pipes. When checking out those makers who did both pre-WW1cars and bikes, he found a reference to Belgian Pipe cars and thus knew the chassis had to be a NSU. And indeed it was the German company NSU who started car manufacture in 1905 by building the Pipe (svvs.org) under licence. According to the owner of this chassis it is a 1912 NSU 16/18. But again your answers set us thinking, so we contacted NSU-expert Horst Schultz from the Autovision Museum. He is certain that the engine was offered from September 1913; that the chassis with bolt-on wire-wheels was also sold as from September and that the radiator is the old style that came from the Belgian Pipe. These were used for NSU-cars from 1906 up to 1912. After that date the design changed. Still, we had three contestants (not surprisingly all from Germany) who came up with the name NSU. We think this is quite a feat, so we decided to award all three the PreWarCar T-shirt. Congratulations to Uwe Bauer, Ingo Jost and Harry Schley! (RB)
