Arnold Spitz

Arnold Spitz
legal form
founding	1901
resolution	1908
Reason for dissolution	Bankrupt
Seat	Vienna , Austria-Hungary
management	Arnold Spitz
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Arnold Spitz was a manufacturer of automobiles from Austria-Hungary .

Company history

Arnold Spitz ran a car dealership in Vienna , according to an advertisement from 1904, the oldest and largest car dealership in Austria-Hungary . He sold vehicles from Benz & Cie. , De Dion-Bouton and Mercedes . In 1901 he hired Otto Hieronimus to develop his own automobile. Production began in March 1902, due to the lack of an own production facility at Gräf & Stift . The brand name was pen . On January 7, 1907, bankruptcy proceedings were opened. Production continued until 1908. A total of around 30 vehicles were built. One vehicle has been preserved.

vehicles

In the first models, built-in motors from De Dion-Bouton with either 8 HP or 12 HP power were used. In 1905 the 24/30 hp model appeared with a four-cylinder engine . The chassis and engine were made by a Hungarian wagon manufacturer, either by Ganz or Rába . Spitz placed an order for ten chassis there on January 2, 1905, and these were delivered on June 8, 1905.

Motorsport

Arnold Spitz in victory pose at the first Exelberg race.

The birth of motorcycle racing is attributed to the Exelberg race on May 21, 1899. The Austrian Automobile Club organized its first mountain road race exclusively for "Motorcycles". Arnold Spitz finished the 14 kilometers from Neuwaldegger Straße to Exelberg as the winner after 29 minutes and 29 seconds. The local Arnold Spitz was also successful in the first Semmering race three months later. Not only did he win the Motocycles class on a De Dion Bouton tricycle, he also left the top-placed car - a Daimler, the German engineer soon devoted himself to four-wheeled vehicles - for more than three minutes.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• Steffen Ottinger: “Around Zschopau. The story of a motorcycle off-road trip ", Volume 1 . Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg, Marienberg 2004, ISBN 3-931770-49-4 , p. 6 .
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
• Hans Seper , Helmut Krackowizer , Alois Brusatti : Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X .
• Hans Seper, Martin Pfundner, Hans Peter Lenz : Austrian automobile history. Eurotax, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-905566-01-X .

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Supervision (accessed on January 27, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Monuments Office from December 2008 ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 27, 2013)