Badische Automobilfabrik Heim & Co.

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Badische Automobilfabrik Heim & Co. OHG
legal form Open trading company
founding 1920
resolution 1928
Seat Mannheim , Germany
management
  • Oskar Eberle
  • Jakob Stengel
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Racing car from Heim
Home 6/18

The Home & Cie Badische automobile factory Mannheim (synonym Home & Co) was a German automobile manufacturer in Mannheim . The company was founded in 1920 by master mechanic Franz Heim , who previously worked for Benz & Cie. was busy.

history

At the age of 14, Franz Heim was the second apprentice to be hired at Benz. He later worked as a racing driver for Benz. In 1911 he started his own business selling and repairing car tires . Shortly thereafter, he expanded his business to include car repair and in 1913 took over the premises of a horse - drawn carriage manufacturer in the Mannheim district of Lindenhof . Here he started building a small two-seater car on the side. But then the First World War broke out and Franz Heim became a soldier for the entire duration of the war.

After the war he founded the Badische Automobilfabrik Heim & Co. OHG with Oskar Eberle, his wife's brother, and the engineer Jakob Stengel as further partners. Most of the money for this came from Heim's workshop under the direction of his wife with the repair of army trucks. Through the previous contacts with the Benz company, employees there could be poached and a high level of quality was quickly achieved. Initially, car production was successful with around 24 vehicles per month. From 1924, however, the company's economic situation deteriorated. a. because due to inflation, the financial obligations could no longer be met. Heim also had severe heart problems. He finally committed suicide in 1926.

The Heim company ceased operations in 1928, after a small number of American-made vehicles with six and eight-cylinder engines had been assembled in 1927 and 1928 .

vehicles

Were built touring cars , with the four-cylinder engines with 6/20 hp (1500; cc, 20 PS, 14.7 kW) or 8/30 hp (2000 cc, 30 PS, 22 kW) of Basse & Selve were equipped.

From 1923 there was the standard type 8/40 PS, which had a six-cylinder in- line engine with 2.0 l displacement and vertical shaft , which developed an output of 40 PS (29 kW) and accelerated the touring car up to 130 km / h. This last model was built until 1926.

Racing

Franz Heim also built some racing cars, which he also took to the start in some Grand Prix races . For example, he entered the 1922 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo di Milano in Monza with two vehicles . However, neither he nor Reinhold Stahl achieved the goal. All races are listed under Franz Heim.

Home vehicles also competed in various local races in the early twenties, mostly with company co-owner Oskar Eberle at the wheel.

date Race type space place driver Car type No
01st Oct. 22nd Hill climb - Crows running Arthur Henney
16 Sep 1923 Hill climb Selbecker hill climb
Hill climb 3 Pattberg (Dortmund)
industrial driver 8 HP
1924 Circuit Taunus 24-hour journey HOME 8/80
1924 Hill climb Crows running Carl Ziegler, Mannheim 17th
1924 Circuit Solitude Race (Stuttgart)
May 10, 1925 Circuit 1
2
3 		Dreieckfahrt Speyer
touring cars up to 8 hp 		Oskar Eberle, Mannheim
Feldmann, Ludwigshafen
Born, Mannheim 		Home 8/40 153
156
23 Aug 1925 Circuit DNA Taunus race Jacob Stengel
Oct 11, 1925 Hill climb 1. Zweibrücken Oskar Eberle HOME 8/80
1925 Flat race Speyer HOME 8/40 20th
1925 run Solitude Race (Stuttgart) Bäuerle, Frankfurt HOME 8/80

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