AG for accumulator and automobile construction

AG for accumulator and automobile construction
legal form	Corporation
founding	1919 (as automobile and accumulator manufacturing company for electric vehicles )
resolution	1925
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Berlin - Wedding , Germany
management	Alex Fischer
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The stock corporation for accumulator and automobile construction in Berlin-Wedding , Ofenerstraße, founded by Alex Fischer, built automobiles with electric drive under the brand name AAA from 1919 to 1922

Company history

From 1922 the electric vehicles were given the brand name Elektric. In the same year the company started producing small cars with built-in gasoline engines. These were sold under the name Alfi .

The factory was founded in 1919 as Automobil- und Akkumulatorenbau GmbH for electric vehicles . In 1920 the name was changed to Auto- und Akkumulatorenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft (AAA) , which was retained until 1922.

The commercial vehicle factory for electric vehicles , which existed until 1925, was continued from 1922 under the company name Aktiengesellschaft für Akkumulatoren- und Automobilbau .

AAA was the first German company to build cars with all-wheel drive.

Production ended in 1925 when the company went bankrupt.

This well-known commercial vehicle factory is often confused with Akkumulatorenfabrik AG , which was also located in Berlin, Askanischer Platz 3 from 1918 to 1936. Electric vehicles with a payload of 1.5 to 2 tons with the Afa brand were also manufactured there, which were used as milk trucks, among other things.

vehicles

There were vans and package delivery cart for a load capacity of 0.6 made up to 2 tons. These commercial vehicles were equipped with an 8.5 HP electric motor , which was installed swinging with the transmission in the spring-loaded frame. The range of the two types built was 60 km.

As a delivery van, the type AAA had a short bonnet that rose at an angle. The spoked wheels were covered with solid rubber and the structure was manufactured as required. Some of the electric vehicles had a front-opening windshield on the passenger side, the cab side was open.

Another commercial vehicle was the AGA type .

See also

• History of the German commercial vehicle industry from 1895 to 1945
• List of commercial vehicle manufacturers

literature

• The history of German truck construction. Volume 2a, Weltbild Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-89350-811-2 , p. 27.
• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. George Rainbird, 1982, ISBN 0-85223-234-9 , p. 23.
2. ↑ Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 2nd Edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 434.