Showing posts with label DKW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DKW. Show all posts

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Led balloon


a higher resolution version can be found online at https://archive.org/details/audi-led-balloon  

For a reason I do not understand, Audi took down the amazing video that they had made






I had no idea this video would pay respects to the Auto Union, Horch, DKW, Wayfarer, etc. I think that is awesome

https://www.motor1.com/news/527502/audi-films-led-balloon/

Friday, August 12, 2011

a variety of advertising cars

mobile showroom. astonishing








 1899 Woods Electric truck, made by the Woods Motor Vehicle Company of Chicago, Illinois.  It was delivered to the B. Dreher's Sons Company of Cleveland, Ohio on December 31, 1899
Thanks Steve!







Friday, June 17, 2011

1958 DKW "Universal" Kombiwagen






The buttons under the radio? Commentor IXXI was very nice and shared the following info

The Buttons under the Radio is a Shortwave Band Spreader. The Numbers represent the "Band" in MHz or "Meter". The Band Spreader worked as preselector mostly the User also bought an extra long Antenna (1,25m) with Crank drive height adjustment (Bosch, Kathrein, Hirschmann) for optimal fine tuning. 
Most Shortwave Spreaders allowed to store one station for each Band. Most sought after Spreaders are the Becker Auto Super units with clockwork driven automatic search and storage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio#Frequency_allocations 
The "longer" bands where also called "marine bands" as they can pic up signals fom all around the world depending on the weather so even in the US you coud listen to european SW Stations like BBC, RIAS, ERF, RTL, AFN oder Deutschlandfunk. On the other hand mostly not while driving... Still today you can buy new SW Radios with Band Spreader

the paper in the window that describes the car descibe the car as having an optional Marine Band radio, is that what the numbered buttons are? Seems most likely