Bavarian car factories

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Bayerische Autowerke GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1956
resolution 1958
Seat Traunreut , Germany
management Harald Friedrich
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Sparrow 200

The Bavarian car plants were a German automobile manufacturer of the 1950s based in Traunreut .

description

In 1955, Harald Friedrich, owner of ALZMETALL - machine tool factory and foundry , acquired a license to build an automobile from the designer Egon Brütsch and had the car improved by the then 77-year-old Hans Ledwinka , formerly Tatra . 1956 founded Friedrich along with the Victoria bicycle works the Bavarian Auto Werke GmbH , to counteract the crisis in the two-wheeler industry. The company launched the “ Spatz 200 ” small car . The Victoria dealer network took over the distribution. Initially the Sparrow had a 191 cc four-speed engine from Fichtel & Sachs , then a fan-cooled 250 cc VICTORIA two-stroke engine with a Peggy and Swing-like electromagnetic five-speed gearshift. This stronger version was called " Victoria 250 " and was finished in Nuremberg . 1588 "Spatz 200" and "Victoria 250" were produced. The sales success of the "Spatz" and the "Victoria 250" was too low overall, so that production was stopped in February 1958.

literature

  • Hanns Peter Rosellen: German small cars ..., Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-89350-040-5 .
  • Reinhard Lintelmann: The motor scooters and small cars of the fifties, 3rd edition, Verlag Walter Podszun, Brilon 1995, ISBN 3-86133-136-5 .

Web links

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