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gotpatina Samba Member
Joined: August 18, 2011 Posts: 69 Location: Lancaster, PA
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:37 am Post subject: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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Hello,
Acquired an old roof rack. Trying to find the year it was made or any history on it.
What is found written on the Metal tag.
Bernhard Korner
Hamburg-Wandsbek
Ahrensburger str 46-50
Telefon 28 67 04
D.R.G.M 1606822
So made in Hamburg Germany....
The part that caught my eye was the “D.R.G.M” So I looked up a little history on it in the web article below.
From what I can find it would be 1952 made at the latest……as the patent ran out in 1949. Does anyone know anything about these racks? It fit well on my 1960 bug.
http://www.toledo-bend.com/VCL/info_2/drgm.html
The acronym D.R.G.M. with or without punctuation stands for Deutsches Reichsgebrauchsmuster, meaning that the design or function of an item was officially registered inside all of the Germany states and not only locally registered as it was the case before the introduction of centralized registration. Note that many people quote this acronym as standing for Deutsches Reich Gebrauchsmuster, which is grammatically wrong and also ommits the letter 's' after Reich. This results in shifting the weight of pronounciation on 'Deutsches Reich' alone, but this acronym has nothing to do with the Third Reich as many sellers want to imply so to catch the attention of certain 'collectors'.
D.R.G.M. registration was introduced 1891 and if you are dating items you should hold in mind that even during Allied occupation up until 1949, registration procedures remained untouched and still used the D.R.G.M. registration documents, which of course explains why D.R.G.M. marks can be found on products actually manufactured up until 1952 as the registration itself was valid for three years. As from the end of October 1952, all registrations were definately marked with 'Deutsches Bundesgebrauchsmuster' (D.B.G.M.) or simply with 'Gebrauchsmuster' or 'Gebrauchsmusterschutz', see below.
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mandraks Samba Member
Joined: November 28, 2004 Posts: 7050 Location: Lawrenceville, Ga
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 1:49 pm Post subject: Re: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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BeKoWa racks are well known
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=102045 _________________ regards
Uli
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'53 3-Fold Oval, L35 Metallic Blue, looking for a narrow hatch panel |
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gotpatina Samba Member
Joined: August 18, 2011 Posts: 69 Location: Lancaster, PA
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 6:32 pm Post subject: Re: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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Thanks. That does look like the brand.
That link has a LOT of information to sort through. I will go through some of the pages. I hope I can find the exact year.
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56samba Samba Member
Joined: June 25, 2015 Posts: 262 Location: Germany
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 2:15 am Post subject: Re: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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thanks for informing us abot D.R.G.M.
I always thought they stopped this slogan with the end of the reich, so I learned something new |
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Bob Cropsey Samba Member
Joined: January 17, 2004 Posts: 30 Location: Wallington, New Jersey
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:41 am Post subject: Re: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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Yes that is a Bekowa roof rack.
I have the same one on my split. |
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D. Haviland Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2009 Posts: 536 Location: Burlington, Vermont
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:23 am Post subject: Re: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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Nice rack.
It should fit on your 60 beetle. You may find that it needs a little tweaking. It seems that over 70 years they can sometimes get a little racked. |
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Brad Ripley Samba Member
Joined: June 20, 2011 Posts: 17 Location: Sparks, NV
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:12 pm Post subject: Re: Old wood Slat Roof Rack ID |
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You might find out more information by contacting the original manufacturer here:
http://www.obft.de/index.html
The key sentence translates as: The first car roof racks were manufactured from 1949 and painted there along with the other items and sold. |
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