Advertising Last completed movie pages 1952 Mercedes-Benz 300 Bestattungswagen [W186.011]Class: Cars, Funeral — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2016-12-04 21:25 |
I'd say it's made on a [W 186] 300, but I don't know who made the conversion. |
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◊ 2016-12-04 23:28 |
It was based on a 300, 1952-53 first series, without the quarter vent on the front door. |
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◊ 2016-12-05 13:23 |
Referring this page (http://www.nast-sonderfahrzeuge.de/MB-Exotenforum/mix_entry.php?id=37523) there were only 5 Hearse built. 1 from Kässbohrer, 2 from Miesen and 2 from Stolle. |
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◊ 2016-12-05 23:35 |
thank you, tw2003 as it not a Kässbohrer nor a Miesen b ypics in your link it has to be one of two Stolle by conclusion |
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◊ 2019-02-08 13:37 |
Oh... where to start here?  This is by no means a Kabinenwagen (= crew cab). That would be the case if the rear compartment was behind two rows of seats and the four doors of the passenger compartment. As much as I value fellow historian FrankWo's contributions, he is not correct this time. Various W186 "Adenauer" funeral coaches were built by Pollmann, Stolle, Techau, Lueg, Miesen, Kässbohrer and Emmelmann (the dark blue one we see in the link above). Furthermore there are two more ones around, bodied by unidentified coachbuilders. That's more than ten units by German coachbuilders and we have at least two more from Portugal, apparently one from Italy (never seen, but RIO offered a 1/43 scale diecast model) and the Australian one by Smith & Son. As the list was even more incomplete than mine (I'm sure there are even more W186 hearses around somewhere), I strongly recommend not venturing a guess like this, as we are talking about coachbuilt cars, which are quite often one of a kind commissions - and usually there are no or only incomplete records of what else had been built through the years. I don't think this is a Stolle coachwork and I doubt they would have made it a four-door coach. I have never seen this body before, meaning we now have a third W186 funeral car bodied by an unknown coachbuilder from Germany - and the list keeps growing. .gif ":)") I'm writing all this to give a little insight into my hearse research and illustrate that a quick jump to conclusions seldom helps if a funeral coach or a coachbuilt car in general asks for identification. That's what makes it so exciting - you'll never reach the point to know and identify them all. |
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