Who / What / Where Game - Page 794

skidman · 07-18-20, 01:21 PM

Nope

Jimbuna · 07-18-20, 01:36 PM

A monument?

skidman · 07-18-20, 02:14 PM

Nope, it's something useful.

Catfish · 07-18-20, 02:37 PM

Something to do with .. water?

Aktungbby · 07-18-20, 02:46 PM

Urft dam spillway?

skidman · 07-18-20, 03:09 PM

Bravo Aktungbby you nailed it!

The Urft reservoir is a really nice place for hiking and mountain biking. And there is a booth near the dam selling coffee, sausages and very good cheese cake. When the lake is full and the water goes down the spillway it's a spectacular sight.

Over to You!

Aktungbby · 07-18-20, 03:32 PM

well...I knew it was a spillway of some sort ;

the Aztecs used to 'spill' their beating-heart sacrificial victims to the gods down the steps of their pyramids. What happened to them there is anyone's guess...I believe in reincarnation and I won't drive an Aztec to this day!

B back shortly with something less juicy. I had been in a flash flood even as the Oroville spillway

was dangerously close to collapse incl. the dam in 2017, causing the entire town to evacute! Tends to re-orient yer thinkin'!

Aktungbby · 07-18-20, 05:15 PM

OK WHAT"S THIS?

Eichhörnchen · 07-18-20, 05:57 PM

The back end of a futuristic 1920s auto?

Aktungbby · 07-18-20, 07:15 PM

JEEZE! but yes

Eichhörnchen · 07-19-20, 05:22 AM

I've looked and looked... was it a race car?

Catfish · 07-19-20, 06:01 AM

1920ies is quite late for this

Catfish · 07-19-20, 06:03 AM

Rumpler "Tropfenwagen"?

Eichhörnchen · 07-19-20, 06:51 AM

Looks like you got it... I googled 1920s and pre-war 'boat tailed' cars every which-way I could, but this one never came up. Squirrel power!

Aktungbby · 07-19-20, 09:24 AM

CATFISH takes it!

The breakthrough aerodynamic passenger car was the German Rumpler “Tropfenwagen” (teardrop car) of 1921. Unlike the impractical and heavy Castagna Alfa, the Rumpler was as dramatically different (and influential) for its completely integrated and original design and engineering. It had a mid-engined W6 engine, and four wheel independent suspension using swing axles which Rumpler patented. The Tropfenwagen was tested in VW’s wind tunnel (below) in 1979,

and achieved a Coefficient of drag (Cd) of 0.28; a degree of slipperiness that VW’s Passat wouldn’t equal until 1988

Used as Berlin taxis, two are known to exist.

It was a surprise to say the least, to see such a machine being conceived and built in war-struck Germany instead of being a product of flourishing US economy. It was the brainchild of Viennese engineer Edmund Rumpler, who started his career with the Nesseldorfer Waggonfabrik (the Bohemian company predecing Tatra in the current Czech town of Koprivnice) and the Berliner company Allgemeinen Motorwagen Gesellschaft before moving to Frankfurt in 1902 to start work at Adler. A year later he was the patent-holder of the swing axle which would become such a vital ingredient of 20s and 30s automobile construction. Rumpler returned to Berlin in 1906 to start his own company, freelancing as an engineering consultant to the automotive and aviation industry. Four years later he acquired the rights to fellow Austrian Igo Etrich’s Taube (‘dove’) airplane and started building it in large numbers as the Rumpler-Taube, eventually employing some 3,000 workers in two factories at Berlin-Johannisthal (the later home of the East-German EMW/DAMW racing effort) and Augsburg.

With Germany losing the war and being prohibited from manufacturing aircraft, Rumpler turned back to automobiles, founding the Rumpler Motoren Gesellschaft GmbH – but the aviational inspiration remained. His teardrop-shaped Tropfenwagen Typ 0A 104 was the star of the show at the Deutsche Automobil-Ausstellung, as its streamline, its winged fenders and its rearward arrow-banked W6 engine (commissioned from Siemens & Halske) took everybody’s breaths away. But nobody actually wanted to buy it! The aero shape was just too far ahead of its time while it didn’t help that the over-engineered 36hp water-cooled engine was unreliable and through its position behind the driving seats was taking away vital storage space.

Rumpler entered into a licensing deal with Benz in 1925 to place Benz’s 2.6-litre 50hp engine in the back, and converted back to traditional fenders too to create the Typ 4A 106 follow-up, even switching to front-wheel drive as a last resort, but it was too little (or perhaps too much) too late. The remaining Tropfenwagen, of which only a hundred were built, were sold off cheaply to Berlin taxi drivers while the rest of them were ritually burned to the ground at the end of Fritz Lang’s famous masterpiece Metropolis, having been sold at bare value to movie company UFA.

07-18-20, 01:21 PM	#11896
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07-18-20, 01:36 PM	#11897
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,928 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	A monument? __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

07-18-20, 02:14 PM	#11898
skidman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Near the Dutch mountains Posts: 1,147 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Nope, it's something useful. __________________ "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” (Douglas Adams)

07-18-20, 02:37 PM	#11899
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,937 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Something to do with .. water? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

07-18-20, 02:46 PM	#11900
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,039 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Urft dam spillway? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

07-18-20, 03:09 PM	#11901
skidman Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Near the Dutch mountains Posts: 1,147 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Bravo Aktungbby you nailed it! The Urft reservoir is a really nice place for hiking and mountain biking. And there is a booth near the dam selling coffee, sausages and very good cheese cake. When the lake is full and the water goes down the spillway it's a spectacular sight. Over to You! __________________ "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.” (Douglas Adams)

07-18-20, 03:32 PM	#11902
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,039 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	well...I knew it was a spillway of some sort ; the Aztecs used to 'spill' their beating-heart sacrificial victims to the gods down the steps of their pyramids. What happened to them there is anyone's guess...I believe in reincarnation and I won't drive an Aztec to this day! B back shortly with something less juicy. I had been in a flash flood even as the Oroville spillway was dangerously close to collapse incl. the dam in 2017, causing the entire town to evacute! Tends to re-orient yer thinkin'! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 07-18-20 at 04:58 PM.

07-18-20, 05:15 PM	#11903
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,039 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	OK WHAT"S THIS? __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

07-18-20, 05:57 PM	#11904
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,810 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	The back end of a futuristic 1920s auto? __________________

07-18-20, 07:15 PM	#11905
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,039 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	JEEZE! but yes __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

07-19-20, 05:22 AM	#11906
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,810 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I've looked and looked... was it a race car? __________________

07-19-20, 06:01 AM	#11907
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,937 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	1920ies is quite late for this __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

07-19-20, 06:03 AM	#11908
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 16,937 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Rumpler "Tropfenwagen"? __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.

07-19-20, 06:51 AM	#11909
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 15,810 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Looks like you got it... I googled 1920s and pre-war 'boat tailed' cars every which-way I could, but this one never came up. Squirrel power! __________________

07-19-20, 09:24 AM	#11910
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,039 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	CATFISH takes it! The breakthrough aerodynamic passenger car was the German Rumpler “Tropfenwagen” (teardrop car) of 1921. Unlike the impractical and heavy Castagna Alfa, the Rumpler was as dramatically different (and influential) for its completely integrated and original design and engineering. It had a mid-engined W6 engine, and four wheel independent suspension using swing axles which Rumpler patented. The Tropfenwagen was tested in VW’s wind tunnel (below) in 1979, and achieved a Coefficient of drag (Cd) of 0.28; a degree of slipperiness that VW’s Passat wouldn’t equal until 1988 Used as Berlin taxis, two are known to exist. It was a surprise to say the least, to see such a machine being conceived and built in war-struck Germany instead of being a product of flourishing US economy. It was the brainchild of Viennese engineer Edmund Rumpler, who started his career with the Nesseldorfer Waggonfabrik (the Bohemian company predecing Tatra in the current Czech town of Koprivnice) and the Berliner company Allgemeinen Motorwagen Gesellschaft before moving to Frankfurt in 1902 to start work at Adler. A year later he was the patent-holder of the swing axle which would become such a vital ingredient of 20s and 30s automobile construction. Rumpler returned to Berlin in 1906 to start his own company, freelancing as an engineering consultant to the automotive and aviation industry. Four years later he acquired the rights to fellow Austrian Igo Etrich’s Taube (‘dove’) airplane and started building it in large numbers as the Rumpler-Taube, eventually employing some 3,000 workers in two factories at Berlin-Johannisthal (the later home of the East-German EMW/DAMW racing effort) and Augsburg. With Germany losing the war and being prohibited from manufacturing aircraft, Rumpler turned back to automobiles, founding the Rumpler Motoren Gesellschaft GmbH – but the aviational inspiration remained. His teardrop-shaped Tropfenwagen Typ 0A 104 was the star of the show at the Deutsche Automobil-Ausstellung, as its streamline, its winged fenders and its rearward arrow-banked W6 engine (commissioned from Siemens & Halske) took everybody’s breaths away. But nobody actually wanted to buy it! The aero shape was just too far ahead of its time while it didn’t help that the over-engineered 36hp water-cooled engine was unreliable and through its position behind the driving seats was taking away vital storage space. Rumpler entered into a licensing deal with Benz in 1925 to place Benz’s 2.6-litre 50hp engine in the back, and converted back to traditional fenders too to create the Typ 4A 106 follow-up, even switching to front-wheel drive as a last resort, but it was too little (or perhaps too much) too late. The remaining Tropfenwagen, of which only a hundred were built, were sold off cheaply to Berlin taxi drivers while the rest of them were ritually burned to the ground at the end of Fritz Lang’s famous masterpiece Metropolis, having been sold at bare value to movie company UFA. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 07-19-20 at 09:34 AM.