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Ford Taunus Transit Bestattungswagen 
Ep. 53Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2022-12-21 02:13 |
![[Image: screenshot2022-12-21at01-34-25mykonos.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/14694/screenshot2022-12-21at01-34-25mykonos.jpg) ![[Image: screenshot2022-12-21at01-30-58mykonos.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/14694/screenshot2022-12-21at01-30-58mykonos.jpg) |
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◊ 2022-12-21 02:15 |
This municipal hearse again ?! /vehicle_46761-Ford-Taunus-Transit.html |
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◊ 2022-12-21 15:45 |
Yeah, looks like it's the same one. Does have a Miesen vibe, but the raised roof is surprising. Overall shape and layout remind of Karosseriebau Frickinger. Munich often used hearses by Stolle, who also bodied Taunus Transit/ FK 1000 double-cab hearses... So I guess you get the point, right?  |
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◊ 2022-12-21 16:15 |
Yes! I came across this listing by accident: /v153986.html Frickinger (1870) is as old as Miesen, as well. |
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◊ 2022-12-21 16:32 |
But Frickinger was a small local company that built a few hearses and a wide range of commercial vehicles of all sorts - in that respect they're completely overexposed here on IMCDb (and that's largely my fault). Miesen was a pan-European market leader specialized in medical vehicles and funeral cars on all sorts of chassis. The only reason I don't rule out a Frickinger coachwork here is the location (Frickinger were in Augsburg), but I don't think it is one (The other one clearly isn't one and my ID from 2008 wasn't correct). It's undecided who built the one above from the current state of knowledge, hence we shouldn't enter a coachbuilder's name just to have one. |
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◊ 2022-12-22 14:05 |
Another aspect is, here we might have an unadorned municipal hearse without an extra window and color is not the usual black but some kind of grey. Later in Derrick etc. often a Ford Transit MKI or Mercedes L406 panel van in a simple series design. |
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◊ 2022-12-22 14:51 |
Yes, this is techncally more of a coroner's van, not a regular hearse that's meant to be used for specialized funeral duties (even though Munich indeed maintained a municipal funeral service back then, unlike many other cities. Hamburg also did that.). This Ford was mainly used as a first-call pick-up van, especially at crime scenes. I guess it accommodates up to four coffins and I'm pretty sure it is bodied by a specialized coachbuilder - I just have no clear indication which one it may have been. Maybe even a local coachbuilder like Albert Heidemann Karosseriebau or such. |
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