Altmann Motor Vehicle Works

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Altmann Motor Vehicle Works GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1905
resolution 1907
Reason for dissolution Death of the entrepreneur
Seat Brandenburg (Havel) , Germany
management Adolf Altmann
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Altmann steam car

The Altmann automotive GmbH was a German company for the production of steam-powered automobiles , which from 1905 to 1907 in Brandenburg (Havel) existed. The founder and owner was Adolf Altmann. It is also associated with tractors and electric cars .

Occasionally Adolf Altmann is even mentioned as the inventor of the steam tractor.

technology

Steam cars were generally less common in Germany than in France , Great Britain or the USA, for example . Altmann's wagons were seen as progressive and independent designs. They were equipped with three-cylinder steam engines with an output of 25 hp (18.4 kW).

Like Gardner-Serpollet , the Altmann machine had a device to control valve opening times . The condensate was collected and fed back into the steam boiler, a principle that the global market leader Stanley only introduced in 1915. The capacitor was attached to the front of the car. The engine, boiler and other important components were housed under the driver's seat. The water tank was in the stern. The power transmission to the rear wheels took place via a drive chain , known by Altmann as a drive chain .

After a fatal industrial accident involving the owner, the company had to be closed before any significant production could begin. An electric car was probably discontinued for the same reason, which is only known to have been built in small numbers.

literature

  • Halwart Schrader : German Cars 1886–1920. 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 , p. 27.
  • GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 2nd Edition. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 . (English)
  • Michael Dörflinger: Picture Atlas Oldtimer. NGV Naumann & Göbel Verlagsges., Cologne approx. 2011, ISBN 978-3-625-13352-0 .
  • Anthony Bird, Edward Douglas-Scott Montagu of Beaulieu: Steam Cars, 1770-1970. Littlehampton Book, 1971, ISBN 0-304-93707-X . (English)
  • Richard J. Evans: Steam Cars (Shire Album). Shire Publications, 1985, ISBN 0-85263-774-8 . (English)
  • Floyd Clymer, Harry W. Gahagan: Floyd Clymer's Steam Car Scrapbook. Literary Licensing, 2012, ISBN 978-1-258-42699-6 . (English)
  • John Heafield Bacon: American Steam-Car Pioneers: A Scrapbook. 1st edition. Newcomen Society of the United States, 1984, ISBN 99940-65-90-4 . (English) beginnings; Sylvester A. Roper; George A. Long; George E. Whitney
  • H. Walter Staner: The early days of motors and motor-driving - steam cars. Lightning Source UK, Milton Keynes UK, ISBN 978-1-4455-2487-0 . (undated reprint of instructions for the operation of steam cars by the publisher of the specialist newspaper Autocar , approx. 1900) (English)
  • Anthony Bird: De Dion Bouton - First automobile Giant. (Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Car marque book No 6). Ballantine Books, New York 1971, ISBN 0-345-02322-6 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Altmann Motor Vehicle Works  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Schrader: German Cars 1886–1920. 2002, p. 27.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Georgano: Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars. 1973, p. 88.
  3. ^ Bird / Montagu: Steam Cars, 1770-1970. 1971, p. 159.
  4. ^ Dörflinger: Oldtimer picture atlas. P. 15.