A Passion for fruit
Recently, I re-discovered my 2010 Mongolia trip photos while searching my archives for images to submit to stock agencies. I'm now motivated to publish a few more blog posts about this intriguing country. The traditional portable home for nomadic herders roaming the vast grassy steppes of Mongolia is the yurt, or ger as it's called in Mongolian which literally means…
Not all ger (yurt) interiors are quite so shockingly colourful.
Mongolia
LEY / ARNSTADT / GERMANY ( 1906 - 1927 ) Rudolf LEY started his automobile production in 1906 with the type LORELEY. This was a fine marketing idea because the LORELEY is a well known rock on the German river Rhein. Later he called his daughter Lore so there was another play upon words. LEY never was a mass producer of cars as his automobiles were too expensive and he had to stop automobile production in 1927. There are at least 9 LEY cars still known in existence. chassis plate of a 1907 LEY, typ LORELEY 6/10 hp 1911 LORELEY registered in Berlin ( photo collection Thomas Ulrich) 1912 sales brochure 1912 LORELEY with the emblem shown in the sales brochure above In 1913 there was a rectangular emblem as shown on this contemporary photo: LEY changed quite often the design of the emblem. Here the 1914 emblem: Here you see the 1914 radiator emblem as shown on a 1914 sales brochure Size 12.7 cm x 14.7 cm Year 1914 Estimate contemporary photo: 1914 LORELEY 1912 brochure, may be this emblem was also mounted on the car itself There have been some more LEY radiator emblems: The letters stand for Rudolf Ley Size c. 4.5 cm x 6.5 cm Year c. 1924 Estimate Just after WW I another LEY emblem was mounted on the radiator: every LEY emblem is a hard to find item Size ca. 5.0 cm Year 1919 Estimate reverse of the 1919 radiator badge contemporary photo showing a 1919 LEY with vee-shaped radiator and the (red / white ) emblem shown above 1922 advertisment Size 9.1 cm x 8.0 cm Year 1923 - 1925 Estimate the emblem shown above was registered in 1923 1910 LORELEY automobile. The white emblem in the middle of the radiator was probably added in the nineteentwenties ( picture collection K. Dierks ) LEY advertisment of 1922 showing the emblem 1925 advertisment For more radiator emblems see older posts or top right of this page ( list of car makers ). When using a smartphone please use the button webview.
Taken date: 2011-07-05 Location: Sukhbaatar square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Gears: Canon EOS 500D, 18~55 Standart zoom lens Editing software: PS4, PTGui 8.3.7, Photomatix 4, Lightroom 3 ARIUKAM© All Rights Reserved
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The German FAUN (= F ahrzeugfabriken A nsbach u nd N urnberg) started truck production in 1918. In 1924 to 1927 they offered a private ...
ELITE / BRAND ERBISDORF / GERMANY ( 1913 - 1930 ) The German ELITE started car production in Brand / Erbisdorf ( Saxonia ) after WW1. But even before that there was quite successful production of trucks, especially electric - trucks. This started already in 1914. As the name suggested they offered luxury cars. Car production ceased in 1929. Only small quantities of cars were built so you have look years for an original ELITE emblem. The 1924 ELITE car with V-shaped radiator had three emblems: two on the radiator and one on the gas cap Size 6.5 cm ( emblem only ) Year 1924 - 1929 Estimate 1921 ELITE with v - shaped radiator at the Berlin motor show first enameld ELITE emblem Size 6.5 cm Year 1913 -1914 Estimate backside of the blue / white emblem with makers mark: L.CHR.LAUER NUERNBERG this emblem design was patented under number 191849 in 1913 1914 advertisment for ELITE ELEKTRO truck another rarity - I have a spare to swap on Size c. 6.7 cm Year 1921 Estimate advertisment showing the 1921 emblem In 1921 the ELITE - WERKE bought the defunct company REX SIMPLEX and offered the typ REX-SIMPLEX B IV as an ELITE WAGEN: restored ELITE ( REX) emblem (A.-G. = Aktiengesellschaft) for more information about REX SIMPLEX click here ! Size 10.0 cm x 6.5 cm Year 1921 Estimate 1927 advertisment ELITE with flat radiator 1926 radiator with emblem In 1926, the ELITE automobile was discussed in detail in the magazine MOTOR und SPORT 1928 advertisment in MOTOR magazine For more emblems see older posts or top right ( list of car makers ). When using a smartphone please use the button webview.
