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Stubbe - Tod auf der Insel, Movie made for TV, 2018 IMDB

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1476116Kramer Allrad unknown [*]
14761112013 Mercedes-Benz E-Klasse Bestattungswagen [VF212] [*]
14761131997 Volkswagen Passat Variant B5 [Typ 3B] [*][*][*][*]
14761122011 Volkswagen Touran I [Typ 1T] [*][*]


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Mystery Man DE

◊ 2021-01-28 22:48

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Mystery Man DE

◊ 2021-01-28 22:51

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hearse trailer

Animatronixx DE

◊ 2021-01-29 14:15

 ^ Too bad we don't list them! It's a final generation Westfalia 153 001 funeral trailer, 1973-1977, and it was built using part of the tooling that was made to create the Westfalia Gutbrod Superior Combi.

[Image: westfalia1977.jpg] [Image: westfalia19771.jpg]

I owned two of these from the generation before with smaller windows (1972 + early 1973).

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2021-01-29 16:16
AnimatronixX wrote ^ Too bad we don't list them! It's a final generation Westfalia 153 001 funeral trailer, 1973-1977, and it was built using part of the tooling that was made to create the Westfalia Gutbrod Superior Combi.

[Image: westfalia1977.jpg] [Image: westfalia19771.jpg]

I owned two of these from the generation before with smaller windows (1972 + early 1973).



Trailer for what? Spare stiffs?

Animatronixx DE

◊ 2021-01-29 16:43

 ^ For every funeral director's duty! Combined with an Opel Kapitän or a contemporary Mercedes Benz, this makes an affordable, but still dignified hearse. Actually, this was mainly a German post-war phenomenon that allowed smaller funeral homes to use a specialist vehicle, even though money and material was short. Several hundreds of these funeral trailers by loads of manufacturers (I guess I know more than 50 companies that built at least one) were used in Germany from the 1930s until the 1970s, mainly in rural areas. The demand slowly dried out when enough equally affordable used hearses were available to everyone and mourners started to frown upon a mere trailer instead of a full motor hearse. Well, nowadays they're completely fine with a van that looks like a van... But not everyone: In recent years, various funeral directors in Germany started using them again, now in a nostalgic way - and people appear to like it.

That's the very short version! I could write a book about it, as funeral trailers are a special subject of mine - we just don't need it on this site. ;)

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2021-01-29 19:07

 I think it is easy for us to forget just how little money there was in circulation in those days and how people had to make the best of what they could.

Ingo DE

◊ 2021-01-29 19:13
AnimatronixX wrote ...
That's the very short version! I could write a book about it, as funeral trailers are a special subject of mine - we just don't need it on this site. ;)


btw., @AnimatronixX: have you found out something about the funeral trailer on the photo I gave you years ago, when we met on the Historicar in Duisburg?
The photo was from around 1944 and the towing car a Buckeltaunus.

btw.II: I still couldn't find any single information about the maker of my 1947-trailer -with the MT-plate-, Küppers from Mönchengladbach :/
I even have called the families of the previous owners.

Animatronixx DE

◊ 2021-01-30 17:48
johnfromstaffs wrote I think it is easy for us to forget just how little money there was in circulation in those days and how people had to make the best of what they could.


Indeed! Keeping this in mind is one of the reasons for me to take care of this slightly unloved part of funeral transportation history. The one below is a better illustration for what I wrote ealier: I once rescued this little fellow, which was built in 1955 by a local carpenter approx. 20 km from where I live. It's exactly what it looks like: A wooden box on a backbone chassis, combined with a Mercedes-Benz axle.

[Image: griebling195505.jpg] [*] Background vehicle in my garage for 8 years.

Ingo wrote (...) have you found out something about the funeral trailer on the photo I gave you years ago, when we met on the Historicar in Duisburg? (...)


Unfortunately not! Because I placed it on the table in our tent, along with the K 70 magazines you gave me, and by the end of the weekend all these papers were gone. Stolen by a randomer, I guess. :/

Ingo wrote (...) Küppers from Mönchengladbach (...)


They don't appear in any of my books or lists with German post-war coachbuilders and vehicle builders. Just like Gustav Griebling, the manufacturer and operator of the trailer in my pic - because it appears to be the only ever vehicle he built. That's what happened quite often. Maybe, Küppers was even a private person. The obstacles to register a home-made trailer weren't very high in early post-war Germany.

Ingo DE

◊ 2021-01-30 19:53

 Oh, the stolen photo is a big annoyance :mad: Very sad!

My Küppers has the VIN-no 253 - but this may mean not much.

I think, it was a craftsman as a carpenter or a locksmith. I remember a 50ies trailer on the junkyard years ago -I picked the Lloyd-hubcaps-, of which a carpenter three villages away was the maker.

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Ingo DE

◊ 2021-01-30 20:00

 :wow: @AnimatronixX: do you have the original Anhängerbrief of the trailer?
It must have had a MT-plate, too.

Animatronixx DE

◊ 2021-01-30 20:04

 @Ingo Completely paperless! The only info I had was written on it. It now lives in Berlin (I sincerely hope it still does...).

Ingo DE

◊ 2021-01-30 20:16
AnimatronixX wrote @Ingo Completely paperless! The only info I had was written on it. It now lives in Berlin (I sincerely hope it still does...).

O.k., if you would still own it, I could have tried to found out something - the previous owner of my MT-Küppers, the local bus company owner -he still has annother MT-trailer, a larger luggage trailer for buses- knows everyone around there, same a K 70-fellow in the next village.

Ingo DE

◊ 2021-02-28 09:16

 @AnimatronixX: :hello:
Maybe they have material about funeral trailers in their museum:
https://www.bpw.de/ueber-uns/die-bpw-gruppe/werksmuseum

Seems to be a larger company. I noticed them yesterday, when I spotted a 1970ies trailer of them in the next street.

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