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1938 Opel Blitz Auwärter 
Class: Bus, Single-deck — Model origin: 
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Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase
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◊ 2022-09-17 16:45 |
![[Image: dieschuledermagischentiere202100415.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/dieschuledermagischentiere202100415.jpg) ![[Image: dieschuledermagischentiere202100445.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/dieschuledermagischentiere202100445.jpg) ![[Image: dieschuledermagischentiere202100921.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/dieschuledermagischentiere202100921.jpg) ![[Image: dieschuledermagischentiere202102446.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/dieschuledermagischentiere202102446.jpg) ![[Image: dieschuledermagischentiere202103439.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/dieschuledermagischentiere202103439.jpg) Cartoonized in the opening titles: ![[Image: dieschuledermagischentiere202100549.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/11562/dieschuledermagischentiere202100549.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-09-18 20:39 |
This one with loads of stage make-up, coachbuilt by Konrad Auwärter GmbH & Co. KG of Pilsting (of later Neoplan-fame) and part of the Auwärter museum fleet. The bus was built in 1938 and also made promotional appearances for the movie. |
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◊ 2022-09-18 20:45 |
What is the purpose of the Coventry numberplate? |
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◊ 2022-09-18 20:56 |
From what I read it's a movie for children and the character who drives it is named 'Mortimer Morrison' - I guess the plate is just a part of the usual cliché bingo, insinuating how ENGLISH!!!oneone that English person must be. |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:01 |
Very well chosen! Mortimer is French origin, Morrison is Scottish! |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:01 |
NKV 588G was genuine Coventry Aug-Nov 68 "Home Delivery Export Scheme" which matches yellow plate border - seen clearly in linked pic. So it lived in West Midlands at the end of the 60s?? |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:05 |
On a more apposite note, curved safety glass in 1938, or did the local legislation not insist on safety glass? |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:07 |
dsl, if it did I never saw it. |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:17 |
Nor me. Total long punt idea - maybe a cultural exchange loan to Coventry Transport museum, with one of theirs going over to Germany for a few months???? |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:32 |
I can't find my Auwärter book (probably at home...), but maybe it wouldn't answer that question anyway. German streamlined buses of the late 1930s often had noticeable amounts of curved glass (my Kässbohrer book just confirmed it), but I don't think SIGLA 'Sicherheitsglas' was used or even required back then. The 1940 SIGLA advertisement below states that curved safety glass could be provided for plane construction - no mention of buses, possibly because it was too expensive. But so were Auwärter bodies...  ![[Image: alte-werbung-1940-sigla-sicherheitsglas-kunzendorf-n-l-bei.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3946/alte-werbung-1940-sigla-sicherheitsglas-kunzendorf-n-l-bei.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-09-18 21:53 |
Here we tended to use “Triplex” safety glass, made in flat sections and cut to fit. In popular priced cars the glass remained flat until some of the 1950s cars like the Vauxhall E Series, and the Mk1 Consul and Zephyr. Standard Steel bodies for RR and B cars had flat glass until 1955, and the Silver Cloud/S series was introduced. Down at the family car end, 100E Fords, 1953, and the Minor 1000 and A35 introduced curved safety glass in 1956. |
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◊ 2022-09-18 22:15 |
Or the plates came from a Home Delivery Export Scheme car and then passed into the hands of collectors. |
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