Ambi-Budd
Ambi-Budd was a German-American production company for motor vehicle bodies and bodies founded in 1926 in the Johannisthal district of Berlin . It was dismantled after 1945 and thus dissolved.
Company history
In October 1926, the established American bodybuilder Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. with the A rthur M üller B Auten and I ndustriewerken (short AMBI) on the site of the former Rumpler works at the airfield Johannisthal a modern body and press shop . Ambi held 51% and Budd the remaining 49% of the company. To develop the plant, the existing Groß-Berliner Damm was continued and this traffic section was given the name Extended Groß-Berliner Damm . The parcels of Groß-Berliner Damm 95-99 were already owned by the Ambi-Gesellschaft, which kept apartments for its employees here.
In order to secure the sales of the bodywork, the company acquired 26% of the shares in Adlerwerke . Budd brought the all-steel body technology to Germany, which largely replaced the body in composite construction (wooden framework with sheet metal planking). The first models with an Ambi-Budd body were the Adler Standard 6 and - with an identical body - the Cyklon 9/40 PS . At NSU and Ley , other vehicles with this structure were built. 800 workers produced 200 bodies a day.
In 1928 Ambi-Budd bought the wheelwright shop Lindner in Ammendorf and the bodywork of Deutsche Industriewerke AG in Berlin-Spandau . This increased the workforce to 2,500. Ford , BMW and Hanomag were won as new customers . From 1930 onwards, in addition to limousines, convertibles were also offered in the (actually outdated) composite construction with wooden frames. From 1936 Ambi-Budd produced bodies for the standard cars of the Wehrmacht , which were built at Horch in Zwickau, the Opel plant in Brandenburg and the Ford plants in Cologne.
During the Second World War , Ambi-Budd manufactured, among other things, the Wehrmacht standard canister , the superstructures for the VW Type 82 (" Kübelwagen "), floating car (VW Type 166) and the mount of the 2.8 cm heavy anti-tank rifle for the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg 41 . After the war ended in 1945, the plant was in the Soviet occupation zone and was completely dismantled. The pressing tools for the BMW 321 / 326 came to Awtowelo in Eisenach , where the car as EMW 321 and BMW 340 continued to be built. The tools for the body of the Ford Taunus went to Ford in the west, the rest was taken to the Soviet Union as reparations .
literature
- Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945 . 10th edition. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extended Greater Berlin Dam . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1928, part 4, Johannisthal, p. 1906.
- ↑ Groß-Berliner Damm 95-99 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1926, part 4, Johannisthal, p. 1865.