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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by SIS 5 » 22 Jan 2023, 19:19

Hi Corjan,

sorry! I forgot to give an answer to Your question about the bus on the pic with the Volkswagen. It could be a Mercedes-Benz type O 3750 like on the drawing, but I´m not sure.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by Corjan » 23 Jan 2023, 00:45

SIS 5 wrote:
22 Jan 2023, 19:19
Hi Corjan,

sorry! I forgot to give an answer to Your question about the bus on the pic with the Volkswagen. It could be a Mercedes-Benz type O 3750 like on the drawing, but I´m not sure.

Best regards

Bert



.Hi Bert,

Thank you. The wheels look the same aswell as the windows. I never knew of such a bus in this hq unit.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by Corjan » 23 Jan 2023, 19:30

SIS 5 wrote:
22 Jan 2023, 17:42
Hi Corjan,

thank You very much for Your reply. A great discovery, that there were two FIAT busses in Rommel´s hq. You have very sharp eyes.
Of course, there were also Opel Blitz busses. Here pics of the busses out of the book "Unter der glühenden Sonne Afrikas" by Alois Schlee. The pics were made by Wachtmeister Rolf Munninger, a soldier in Rommel´s hq from June 1941 until April 1943.

The subtitles to the pics:
pic 0: Colonel Wolz, commander of AA regiment 135, makes a report to Rommel and general Gause. Behind them the "caravan" of Rommel, an Opel Blitz bus in Mai 1942.
pic 1: the bus of Rommel near to Marsa el Brega January 1942. Behind it a a captured Dodge, which drove Ralf Munninger.
pic 2: January 1942: break in march near to Sceleidima. Ralf Munninger (left) is standing near to Rommel´s command bus.
pic 3: a well-known pic: Rommel with lieutenant colonel Bayerlein and von Mellenthin in his command bus, the second bus of the "Führungsstaffel" (leadership squadron).
pic 4: the "caravan" of Rommel beginning of June 1942 at a stop.

I forgot to tell You the source of the better pic with the bus and the Volkswagen: "Der VW Kübelwagen Typ 82 im Zweiten Weltkrieg" by Janusz Piekalkiewicz.

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Bert
Hi Bert,

I didn't know these pics nor the books. I am very thankful to have by them a better total view on the composition of this hq.
I remember to have read somewhere that there was a Mercedes bus also. It was in an internet forum like Afrikakorps. I believe.

Corjan.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by carius » 26 Jan 2023, 22:23

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by Sturm78 » 02 Feb 2023, 02:06

Hi all,

I think a Gräf & Stift V7 DW bus

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by carius » 06 Feb 2023, 22:49

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by Sturm78 » 11 Feb 2023, 22:20

Hi all,

An image from Ebay: I think a Magirus O145 bus

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by SIS 5 » 12 Feb 2023, 00:26

Hi Sturm 78,

that´s not a bus, but a so-called Paketkraftwagen of the field post like on this pic. The license numbers RP 300.001 and following are reserved for trucks and fire engines.
The busses had the numbers RP 100.001 and following.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by Sturm78 » 12 Feb 2023, 18:52

Thank you for the correction, Bert.

Until now I had only seen pictures of the Gepäckwagen on Bussing-NAG chassis.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by SIS 5 » 12 Feb 2023, 19:06

Hi Sturm 78,

a pic of this vehicle is also on Holger´s site.
I´m glad, when I can help You a little bit.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by carius » 18 Feb 2023, 07:09

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by carius » 26 Feb 2023, 23:50

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by Maxschnauzer » 27 Feb 2023, 05:48

Is that a Hanomag? I've never seen a Hanomag bus before!.
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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by SIS 5 » 02 Mar 2023, 12:15

Hi Max,

what an interesting pic! You could be right, that it is a Hanomag bus. Hanomag produced only one type of bus in the thirties: type HL 3,0-3,5 (source of the information: "Deutsche Omnibusse seit 1895" by Wolfgang Gebhardt.

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Re: ► Photothread: Bus/Omnibuss

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Post by carius » 02 Mar 2023, 12:56

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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