Billund Motor Museum (3)

On 18 May 2016 and 26 June 2016 I showed some of the photographs that I took of the cars when I visited the Billund Motor Museum in August 1992. Here are the rest of the photographs I took that day.

1952 EMW 340 Sedan.

1955 Mercedes Benz 300SL

1953 Hudson Hornet Saloon

1953 Mercedes Benz 300S

A Trabant 601 - mainly remembered as the car used by thousands of East Germans to reach West Germany via Czechoslovakia or Hungary just prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Billund Motor Museum (2)

On 18 May 2016 I showed some phototographs I had taken in 1992 of some of the exhibits at the Billund Motor Museum in Denmark. Here are a few more of the photographs I took that day.

1939 Hanomag Type 13

1935 De Soto Airflow

1938 Mercedes Benz 320 Cabriolet

1938 Mercedes Benz 540K

1939 DKW F8

1937 Horch 853A

In 1932 Auto Union AG was formed, being an amalgamation of four manufacturers, Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer, and though each of those four continued to produce cars under their own names they each bore a badge with the four interlocking rings of the Auto Union, which survives to this day on Audi cars. You will see that the 1939 DKW and the 1937 Horch have that badge on these photographs. The 1912 Wanderer that I showed on the last batch of photographs doesn't have that badge because it was produced before the Auto Union merger.

Billund Motor Museum

In August 1992 when our children were 11 and 9 years old we went on a trip to Denmark, the main purpose of which was to visit the Legoland park in Billund, where we spent a full day. The park is just across the road from Billund Airport, and I'd already found out that there was a motor and aviation museum adjacent to the airport, so about an hour before we were due to be picked up I nipped out of the park and across to the museum to have a look round. I've been meaning to show these photographs for some time, but I can't find the brochure I purchased at the museum so I've no further details about the cars and planes other than the identification which I had put on each of the photographs. Here are a few of the cars I photographed that day.

1927 Mercedes Benz Model S

1912 Metz Runabout

1912 Wanderer

1938 American Bantam Model 60

1936 Cord 810 Sedan

1934 Chrysler Airflow CV Imperial