The industrial towns of Sinshiem and Speyer in Germany are home to two extremely impressive auto and technical museums. The collections include numerous cars, motorbikes, scooters, trains, aircraft, ships, submarines, a space shuttle, military hardware and even a chainsaw collection. Housed in vast hangers, with giant aircraft suspended overhead, they are truly amazing. Even though Shelly was initially a little dubious, we spent a couple of hours at both museums and went absolutely mental photographing the collection.
Here are a couple of pics of the scooter collection. I will continue to update this post over the next couple of weeks. Of the two museums Sinshiem was the best in my opinion. The collection was better presented and the auto section was much larger. Both cities are about two hours drive south east of Frankfurt. For more details, check their website: https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/
The Scooter Collection
A Heinkel Perle moped
The beautiful Zundapp Bella
Another Bella with a Stieb sidecar
A Lambretta
An NSU Prima
The Heinkel collection at Speyer
In the microcar section - Bellas, Adler Junior, & a Goggomobile
Vespa fenderlight
IWL Berlin and a Vespa 125
Adler Junior
Cheating a bit - this is actually from Brussels Auto Museum - A Goggo
A prototype Piaggio 3-wheeler. The MP3 has come a long way
German microcar royalty - Messerschmitt and Heinkel
Fiat 600. NSU began building Fiat cars under license again after the Second World War under the name of NSU-Fiat. After a while their cars began to diverge from both Fiat and NSU, which were then building their famous NSU Prinz.
This is a Hanomag Kommissbrot from the 1920's. Hanomag went on to become one of Germany's major truck manufacturers.
The iconic BMW Isetta. The type was developed by the Italian refridgerator company, ISO. BMW bought the license from ISO and developed the type further.
A line up of 1964/65 Goggomobile Coupes
NSU Prinz Spyder
Nothing says "bubble car" like an Isetta
Except maybe a Heinkel...
A 1957 Goggomobile T-250 sedan
1955 Kleinschnittger F-125
Zundapp Janus
The ultra cool Messerschmitt
The Mercedes-Benz 130H was Mercedes' attempt to develop a rear engined "volks-wagon" during the late 1930s. It was a very experimental design and the problems with the rear engine gave it poor handling. Ferdinand Porsche and Josef Ganz were both consultants on the project.
The east and west German "volkswagens."Trabant and Beetle.
More photos from our visit to Speyer and Sinsheim
Speyer aircraft and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/speyer-technical-museum-germany.html
Sinsheim aviation and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/sinsheim-technical-museum-germany.html
Motorcycles: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/auto-technik-museums-at-sinshiem-speyer.html
Microcars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/sinshiem-micro-car-collection.html
European cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/speyer-and-sinshiem-auto-collection.html
American cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/sinshiem-auto-collection-american-cars.html
Adler Junior
Cheating a bit - this is actually from Brussels Auto Museum - A Goggo
A prototype Piaggio 3-wheeler. The MP3 has come a long way
German microcar royalty - Messerschmitt and Heinkel
Fiat 600. NSU began building Fiat cars under license again after the Second World War under the name of NSU-Fiat. After a while their cars began to diverge from both Fiat and NSU, which were then building their famous NSU Prinz.
This is a Hanomag Kommissbrot from the 1920's. Hanomag went on to become one of Germany's major truck manufacturers.
The iconic BMW Isetta. The type was developed by the Italian refridgerator company, ISO. BMW bought the license from ISO and developed the type further.
A line up of 1964/65 Goggomobile Coupes
NSU Prinz Spyder
Nothing says "bubble car" like an Isetta
Except maybe a Heinkel...
A 1957 Goggomobile T-250 sedan
1955 Kleinschnittger F-125
Zundapp Janus
The ultra cool Messerschmitt
The Mercedes-Benz 130H was Mercedes' attempt to develop a rear engined "volks-wagon" during the late 1930s. It was a very experimental design and the problems with the rear engine gave it poor handling. Ferdinand Porsche and Josef Ganz were both consultants on the project.
The east and west German "volkswagens."Trabant and Beetle.
More photos from our visit to Speyer and Sinsheim
Speyer aircraft and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/speyer-technical-museum-germany.html
Sinsheim aviation and military: https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/05/sinsheim-technical-museum-germany.html
Motorcycles: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/auto-technik-museums-at-sinshiem-speyer.html
Microcars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/08/sinshiem-micro-car-collection.html
European cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/speyer-and-sinshiem-auto-collection.html
American cars: https://heinkelscooter.blogspot.com/2009/12/sinshiem-auto-collection-american-cars.html
