Austro cycle car

Austro cycle car
legal form
founding	1913
resolution	1914
Seat	Neutitschein , Austria-Hungary
management	Fritz Hückel
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Austro-Cyclecar was a manufacturer of automobiles from Austria-Hungary .

Company history

The hat manufacturer Fritz Hückel (1885–1973) founded the company in Neutitschein in 1913 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Austro-Cyclecar or just Austro . Eduard Schlosser took over the general agency. Production ended in 1914. Fritz Huckel founded after the First World War , the small car plants Fritz Huckel in Schoenau in Neutitschein.

vehicles

The first 5/7 hp model was a cycle car . It was powered by a V2 engine from NSU Motorenwerke . Water- cooled V2 engines from Laurin & Klement were later used. The transmission had four gears. The power was transmitted by means of chains. There is no differential . A special feature was the individual wheel suspension. The vehicle weighed 260 kg. The new price was 2800 crowns .

In 1914 a larger model followed with a four-cylinder engine and 14 hp . The engine power was transferred to the rear axle via a cardan shaft , which now had a differential. The curb weight was given as 400 kg.

motor race

The vehicles were also used in car races. On September 7, 1913, Eduard Schlosser took second place in the reliability drive of the General Motor Drivers Association (AMV) around Semmering behind Sascha Kolowrat on Austro-Daimler Sascha. The four-cylinder model was used in the race from Zbraslav to Jíloviště on April 5, 1914.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
• Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů. České a slovenské osobní automobily od roku 1815 do současnosti. Computer Press, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-251-1587-9 . (Czech)
• 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} 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} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.