Walter Schätzle automobile plant

Auto parts Walter Schätzle GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1973
resolution	1974
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Berlin - Rudow , Germany
management	Walter Schätzle
Number of employees	500
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

AWS Shopper from 1974

The Walter Schätzle automobile plant was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The former Borgward dealer Walter Schätzle presented a small car at the Hanover Fair in 1970 and began hand -made production in Ober-Bessingen . In 1973 he founded the company in Berlin-Rudow . The brand name was AWS by most sources , while other sources write of the AWS Shopper . Production ended in July 1974 when the company went bankrupt . A total of around 1700 vehicles were built.

vehicles

→ Main article : AWS Shopper

The company manufactured micro cars. The two-cylinder engine from the Goggomobil with 250 cm³ displacement provided the drive . The prototypes were called Picollo or Piccolo . The model name AWS Shopper was only used for vehicles that were produced in series .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter AWS; AWS Piccolo, AWS Shopper.

Web links

Commons : Automobilwerk Walter Schätzle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hanns-Peter Baron von Thyssen-Bornemissza: Lexicon of forgotten types of cars (accessed November 1, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lasse Hinrichs: City car AWS Shopper: The crisis mobile - mobility. In: Spiegel Online . January 13, 2013, accessed June 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 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)
3. ^ George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Publishing, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 . (English)
4. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X . (English)
5. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed July 4, 2014)
6. ↑ Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z , VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1
7. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader: The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5 .
8. ^ David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles. Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 0-86288-258-3 . (English)