Aircooled VW South Africa

spotted this unknown make blue&white panelvan while driving through Brixton this afternoon.

something similar to this
FIG,have you seen it before?

looks like an Autounion van to me

Thats one of the later models, being an DKW - Auto union 3=6

The "4" rings give it away, this was taken over by Audi, when the 4 car brands where amalgamated.

On 25 April 1910 the Audi Automobilwerke GmbH Zwickau (from 1915 on Audiwerke AG Zwickau) was entered in the company's register of Zwickau registration court.

In 1932, Audi AG merged with Horch, DKW, and Wanderer, to form Auto Union AG, and then NSU

The founder was August Horch (1868–1951)

"Horch", meaning "listen" in German, and when translated to Latin would be "Audi" thats where they got the name.

Getting back to the DKW Panel Van.....as well as the very fast DKW cars.......

3=6 was their way of saying that the 3 cylinder 2 stroke had the same power as a 6 cylinder engine.

This was good advertising, by got them in hot water with the racing laws, which duly classed them as 6 cylinder engines, and that was their end of racing victory's.

Just some info...

Herman

I haven't seen it, but, as Herman says, that's a DKW Schnell-laster.

I just caught a glimpse of it as i was going down Caroline str .It stopped at the stop street coming from your side .

It might have been a Dkw ,i just used that pic as it resembles it the closest.