Limousines & passenger cars

"Day of the chemical worker",issued Nov.10th,1960.
(from a set of 4)
As said in the previous post,the bodywork of the "Trabant" was made
of plastic.Hence the connection to the chemical industry.

 

Walter Ulbricht and German Titov (cosmonaut) parading in a (russian-built ?) state limousine trough Berlin.
Issued Dec.11th,1961; from a set of 6;

 

Leipzig Autumn Trade Fair,issued Aug.27th,1963.

 

Road safety,issued March 28th,1966; from a set of 4;
"The road is no playground"

 

Road-savety education,issued Feb.18th,1969.

 

GAZ-24 as police-car.The GAZ-24 was built in Gorki in Russia from
1967 till 1992,with many modifications over the years.
An "upper-middle-class" car,here as patrol-car of the "Volkspolizei"
(peoples police).
Stamp issued June 23rd,1970. (from a set of 5)

 

"For high order and security",issued Sept.9th,1975.

(from a set of 5)

 

Issued Sept.13th,1977.(from a set of 5)

 

Car-manufacturing in Zwickau.
20 Pfg. Horch 8 (1911)
35 Pfg. Trabant
August Horch (1868-1951) founded a car-production company in 1904,what would become the most selling producer of upper-class
and luxury-cars in Germany,till the beginning of World War II.
However he was squeezed out of his company by stock-holders and
founded a new company in 1909.
A court-battle about the names of both companies ended badly for
Horch,so he could not use his name for his new one.
He renamed it,by translating "Horch" into Latin: "Audi".
Till today a very good brand-name in the world of car-manufacturing.
Stamps issued April 3rd,1979.

 

Car-transport on rails,issued April 17th,1979. (from a set of 4)

 

This is how the leadership wanted the future of the DDR:
"Platten-Bauten" (buildings of pre-fabricated concrete-slabs;now
most of them have been demolished) and cars for everyone.
Stamp issued May 22nd,1979. (from a set of 2)

 

Car on the "Großglockner Hochalpenstraße".The stamp is from the
airmail-set of 15,issued Aug.16th,1935.The year,when that road was opened.Then it was the only road in Austria,connecting Salzburg
with Carinthia.
Must have been a challenge for the cars of the time to master the road,what leads up as high as 2500 m.
The road,run by a private company,is a mayor attraction of Austria.

 

ÖAMATIC (Austrian Automobile-,Motorbike- and Touring Club)
75th anniversary,issued Oct.1st,1971.
The "Marcus Wagen" was an early motor-car from 1888/89,
constructed by Siegfried Samuel Marcus (1831-98).

 

Issued May 26th,1995. (a "beauty",awaiting replacement)

 

"Steyr Baby",produced 1936-1939.
Stamp issued May 28th,1999.

 

Cadillac (1903)(?),issued May 20th,1970. (from a set of 4)

 

Here are some early Australian models, unfortunately none of the manufacturers still exist, although the cars do. The se-tenant stamps were issued in 1984, the 50th anniversary of the Veteran Car Club in South Australia (Feb 1934), changed later to the Sporting Car Club, believed to be the 2nd oldest such car club after the Veteran Car Club in Great Britain. They are as you see:

 

Keohwa "Jeep" de luxe,Hyundai "Pony 2",issued Feb.25th,1983.

 

Kia Bus and Hyundai "Pony 2".
Issued March 25th,1983.