Fritz Scheibler motor vehicle factory

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Fritz Scheibler Motorwagenfabrik AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1900
resolution 1913
Reason for dissolution Takeover by Mannesmann
Seat Aachen , Germany
management Fritz Scheibler
Branch Engine manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

The Fritz Scheibler Motorwagenfabrik was a German manufacturer of automobiles and commercial vehicles based in Aachen between 1900 and 1913 .

history

The company was originally founded in 1900 by Fritz Scheibler (1845–1921) and his son Kurt (* 1875) as Fritz Scheibler Motorenfabrik AG with the legal form of a stock corporation in Aachen and dealt with the manufacture and sale of engines , motor Trucks and motorized buses . Since 1875 the entrepreneur and engineer Fritz (Friedrich Jacob) Scheibler, descendant of the Scheibler family and brother of the chemist Carl Scheibler , had already owned a machine factory on Bachstrasse in Aachen, which he wanted to enlarge and add a new line of business due to the success.

Cars and trucks were built, with Scheibler producing all parts in-house. The Scheibler factory mainly delivered its self-developed passenger cars to Great Britain. The designer was Willy Seck , who had designed a car with friction wheel drive as early as 1896–1897. Scheibler was awarded a gold medal at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1900 for the 10 hp model with a 2-cylinder boxer engine built in those years . From 1903, the vehicles with friction wheel drive disappeared and were replaced by those with spur gears.

Already in 1901 the first trucks and buses developed under the brand name Scheibler with flüssiggekühltem 12-PS series - four-cylinder - a gasoline engine and battery ignition . In 1902, larger 40 hp engines and gear drives were installed in the trucks. A little later, around 1904, the manufacture of automobiles also began, but from the beginning they did not sell as well as trucks.

In 1905, Fritz Scheibler Motorenfabrik had to register a settlement due to economic difficulties , but it was re-established under the name Scheibler Automobil-Industrie GmbH . As early as 1907, the production of passenger cars had to be stopped again due to insufficient sales. Instead, only commercial vehicles were manufactured under the name Mulag . In the same year the motor vehicle factory Hüttis & Hardebeck was taken over. The L 56 truck was built for a few years from 1907 and had a payload of 6 tons . It was able to pull two trailers with a payload of 2 t each, there was a magneto ignition , leather cone clutch , 4-speed gearbox and a differential instead of a chain drive .

In 1913, Scheibler was bought by Mannesmann . From this point on, the cars were called Mannesmann-MULAG .

A surviving vehicle from 1902 was used on a veteran trip in 1982.

Car models

model Construction period cylinder Displacement power
10 hp 1900-1903 2 boxers 10 HP (7.4 kW)
24/30 hp 1904-1905 4 row 4241 cc 30 HP (22 kW)
35/40 hp 1904-1905 4 row 6872 cc 40 hp (29 kW)
12 hp 1906 2 row 2206 cc 12 HP (8.8 kW)
5 hp 1907 1 864 cc 5 HP (3.7 kW)

literature

  • Halwart Schrader : German Cars 1886–1920. 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 , pp. 341-344.
  • Günther Schnuer: The automobile manufacture in Aachen 1896–1928. A contribution to the history of technology and industry. Meyer & Meyer, Hanover 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henrik Meyer: 10th Hansa-Veteranen-Rallye. In: Automobil- und Motorrad-Chronik , issue 10/1982, p. 9.