Arbenz motor vehicle factory

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Arbenz from 1905

Arbenz Motorwagenfabrik was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles and trucks .

Eugen Arbenz's company began in Albisrieden near Zurich in 1904 with the production of automobiles and trucks. From 1905 only trucks were made. On March 22, 1922, the company went into liquidation .

Edwin Oetiker took over the company on April 10, 1924. Vehicle production of Oetiker & Co. Motor Car Factory, Zurich-Albisrieden was set in 1934, according to other sources until 1936. The Oetiker engine braking AG still presented in the 1950 engine braking ago.

An Arbenz vehicle can be seen in the Visby Bilmuseum Skogsholm in Visby on Gotland .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Arbenz (I) and Oetiker; Arbenz.
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5 .
  • Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6 .
  • Anton Heer: From the depths of the archives: Motor vehicle factory Arbenz. In: Semaphore. 6th year, spring 2010, Verlag Dietschi, Olten 2010.
  • Halwart Schrader, Jan P. Norbye: The truck lexicon, all brands 1900 to today. Motorbuch Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3613018373 .

Web links

Commons : Arbenz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6 .
  2. ^ Peter Müller-Grieshaber: Edwin Oetiker. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . (As of August 21, 2009)
  3. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Arbenz (I) and Oetiker; Arbenz.
  4. ↑ GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring for Commercial Vehicle Production (accessed on March 19, 2016)