Car body work Worblaufen

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Traditionally held Talbot T26 Record (1947) Cabriolet from Carrosserie Worblaufen
Bentley Mark VI (1949) Cabriolet from Carrosserie Worblaufen. This vehicle was exhibited at the 1950 Geneva Motor Show.

Carrosserie Worblaufen, F. Ramseier & Co. is the name of a Swiss bodywork company based in Worblaufen near Bern from 1929 to 1958. The company is not identical to Carrosserie Ramseier in Bern and Biel .

Carkörper Worblaufen was one of the country's leading suppliers of special bodies for luxury automobiles. The specialty were sporty, elegant, open bodies.

Worblauf bodies on chassis from Alfa Romeo , Bentley , BMW , Bugatti ( Type 57 Grand Raid Roadster, Chassis No. 57260), Citroën , Delahaye (7 of the Type 135 of which 5 still exist according to the Swiss Car Register ), Hotchkiss , Isotta are known Fraschini , Jaguar , Lancia , Mercedes-Benz and Talbot-Lago .

Shortly after the Second World War , an interesting four-door convertible based on a Packard Clipper Super or Super Eight was created . Ramseier mixed design elements from both series: the front was clearly borrowed from Packard's 22nd and 23rd series (1948–1950), but the flanks lacked their continuous belt line. Instead, the front fenders ran out in the doors and the rear fenders were detached and not paneled, similar to the clipper of the 19th and 20th series (1941–1947).

In March 1950, Worblaufen showed a convertible on the chassis of a Bentley Mark VI at the Geneva Motor Show . In 1951 Car Körper Worblaufen exhibited a four-door luxury convertible type 2050 from the Hotchkiss brand in Geneva. A second, almost identical car was acquired by Jakob Jenzer, a former partner of the Ramseier company and a pioneer in Swiss automotive engineering.

After the Second World War, many luxury car manufacturers ceased operations or produced vehicles with a self-supporting body. The source for chassis for the bodybuilders dried up. Like many others, Carosserie Worblaufen was forced to give up.

Around 50 vehicles with a "Worblaufen Carbody" are still known worldwide.

  • Hotchkiss 2050 Car Body Worblaufen for Jakob Jenzer

  1. ↑ Kimes: Packard. 1978, p. 539.

literature

  • Roger Gloor: Post War Car. 2nd Edition. Hallwag AG, Bern / Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-444-10263-1 .
  • Beverly R. Kimes (Ed.): Packard, a history of the motor car and the company. 1st edition. Princeton, NJ 1978, ISBN 0-915038-11-0 . (English)
  • Lawrence Dalton: Rolls Royce - The Elegance Continues. Dalton-Watson Publishers, London 1971, ISBN 0-901564-05-2 . (English)

Web links

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