Friends' Gallery Picture of the Month - March 2025

[Mike Costigan]

This month we have a splendid photo of an early Dixi cabriolet with coachwork by Weinberger Karosserie of Munich. A large-format original print from the Weinberger records is for sale on the internet, along with a second view of the same car; I have advised the A7CA Archive, but we are both agreed that the price of almost £60 per print is too high. So you will have to be satisfied with low-res screen shots, which can be viewed in the Gallery.

   

[andrew34ruby]

Isn't that lovely!

[Colin Morgan]

At the other end of the scale, Weinberger Karosserie also bodied this Bugatti cabriolet in 1931:

[Mike Costigan]

Thanks, Colin, I had forgotten that; quite the contrast!

[Colin Morgan]

Seems it was taken just opposite the factory at Zeppelinstrasse, 41 by the river in Munich.

   

[Chris Garner]

Amazingly, considering the mayhem of WW11, all the production records on the Dixi and early BMW vehicles remain intact so it should be easy to identify the date when the chassis was supplied to Weinburger. Production of the first Dixi 3/15PS commenced in December 1927. In the first quarter of 1927 Austin's had despatched 100 Austin Sevens to Dixi to allow the company to familiarize themselves with the model. By December the only notable Austin supplied parts were the chassis side members and wheel hubs. The rest were Dixi manufactured. A remarkable achievement in such a short space of time.