Argeo vehicle factory

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Argeo vehicle construction
Argeo vehicle factory
legal form
founding 1924
resolution 1929
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Georg Kulitzky
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

The Argeo vehicle factory was a German manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The company began in 1924 as Argeo-Fahrzeugbau at Stallschreiberstraße 57 in Berlin under the direction of Georg Kulitzky with the production of motorcycles . The brand name was Argeo . Later the company moved to Köpenicker Str. 21 and the name was changed. There are inconsistent spellings of the company name in advertisements: sometimes without a hyphen, sometimes with. Motorcycle production ended in 1927 and motor tricycle production ended in 1929. In 1925 automobiles were also made , but only a few were sold.

vehicles

Motorcycles and motor tricycles

The bikes had single cylinder - two-stroke engines . The displacement was either 198 cm³ or 246 cm³. The performance of the self-made engines is given as 3.5 HP or 6 HP. The tricycles were utility vehicles.

Automobiles

The only car model was a tricycle with the single wheel in the front. The body offered space for two people. A two-stroke engine with a displacement of 123 cm³ propelled the vehicle. Despite the low weight - according to a source a cycle car - the vehicle was underpowered.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.gtue-oldtimerservice.de/motorrad/marke/ARGEO/2292/
  2. ↑ Advertisement of the company (accessed on November 2, 2019)
  3. ↑ Advertisement of the company (accessed on November 2, 2019)
  4. ↑ a b c d Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  5. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  6. ↑ Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 41.