Berlin motor car factory

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Berlin Motor Car Factory (BMF)
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1901
resolution 1906
Reason for dissolution Transfer to Oryx Motorwerke AG
Seat Berlin , Germany
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Berlin Motor Car Factory (BMF) was from 1901 to 1906 existing German companies in the legal form of a GmbH with headquarters in Berlin , the commercial vehicles produced. It originated in 1901 from the Berlin motor vehicle factory Gottschalk & Co. KG , was transferred to Oryx Motorwerke AG in 1906 , which in turn was taken over by Dürkopp-Werke AG in 1908 and 1911 .

Berlin motor car factory (1898–1906)

The company, usually briefly referred to as Berliner Motorwagen-Fabrik or BMF , emerged in 1901 from the Berliner Motorwagen-Fabrik Gottschalk & Co. KG . The production was made in an even by these legal predecessor in 1900 by the company Orenstein & Koppel leased plant in Berlin-Tempelhof , on the ring road, and from 1904 at a plant in Berlin-Reinickendorf -Ost, Extended Koloniestraße 1-2. Important designers such as Kurt Bendix and Willy Seck were employed in the company, and later Georg Lehmann, Ernst Valentin and Léon Palous . The factory premises in Berlin-Tempelhof were gradually abandoned from 1904 onwards. By the end of 1905, the entire factory was relocated from Tempelhof to Reinickendorf.

Type L 50 truck

In 1901, the BMF brought its first lorry onto the market. This type L 50 had a two-cylinder engine with 10 HP, which could be operated either with gasoline or with ethanol (colloquially alcohol ) and could drive up to 20 km / h. The truck, designed for a payload of 2.5 t , had a copper cone coupling , a differential gear and a cardan shaft that was supported by two push struts. This type was also offered as an omnibus.

Oryx Motorwerke AG (1906–1911)

1906 was BMF under the company Oryx Motor Werke AG into a joint stock company converted. This offered under the newly registered word mark oryx two truck cab- types with 2.5 t 5 or t payload and a maximum speed of 15 km / h, which were also available as buses. The engine was installed under the driver's seat. Due to the low vehicle frame , the truck types with the names BMF and Tempelhof were particularly popular with the "beer coaches". The larger trucks were later given the name Eryx , the additional passenger cars (cars) built were given the name Oryx and the “powerhouses” ( taxis ) were given the name Berolina . In addition, delivery vans and electrically powered truck types developed by the BMF itself were built. From 1905 to 1906 automobiles were also offered under the name Tempelhof .

Subsidiary or branch of Dürkopp-Werke AG (1911–1929)

The factory in Berlin-Reinickendorf was leased in 1908 by Dürkopp-Werke AG , which took over the company by purchasing it in 1911 and modernized the factory. In 1913, a new type of truck with a payload of 2 t was built under the Oryx brand . In the following year, a truck model with an output of 30 hp and a payload of 2.5 t came out, which corresponded to the standard 3-tonne truck of the German Reichswehr and was manufactured for them in large numbers during the First World War .

After the war, truck construction was given up in 1920. Until the work is sold to the London-based record company Crystalate Gramophone Record Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in 1929 only buses were manufactured under the name Dürkopp.

literature

  • The history of German truck construction. Volume 1, Weltbild Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-89350-811-2 , pages 37-39.
  • District Office Tempelhof of Berlin (ed.), Matthias Heisig (ed.): From iron to pralines. The Tempelhof district and its industry. Exhibition catalog, Berlin 2000, pp. 174–177.
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .