Berlin motor car factory Gottschalk

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Berlin motor vehicle factory Gottschalk & Co. KG
legal form Limited partnership
founding 1898
resolution 1901
Reason for dissolution Establishment of the Berlin Motor Car Factory (BMF)
Seat Berlin , Germany
Branch Automobile manufacturer , commercial vehicle manufacturer

The Berlin Motor Car factory Gottschalk & Co. was was founded in 1898 by German companies for the production of motor vehicles in the legal form of a limited partnership with headquarters in Berlin , from the 1901 Berlin Motor Car Factory (BMF) was created.

Company history

The company was founded in 1898 on the Jägerstrasse 61a property in Berlin. In 1900 the production of motor vehicles began. The brand name was Gottschalk .

vehicles

The only passenger car was a Voiturette with a single-cylinder built -in engine from De Dion-Bouton with 3 or 4 hp . The power was transmitted to a cardan shaft via a friction gear . Possibly the design was based on the successful De Dion Bouton model Vis-à-vis , but obviously did not use its manual transmission .

The production of commercial vehicles began early on . A delivery van was based on the small car. In addition, a three-wheeled cargo motorcycle was built, similar to a trike and with a closed van body. Larger commercial vehicles and minibuses with a capacity of up to 10 people were also built. Engines from De Dion-Bouton, Aster , Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft or Hille were used .

The first commercial vehicles of the Berlin motor vehicle factory , established in 1901, were little changed Gottschalk vehicles.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 (G – O). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b G. N. Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 , p. 288. (on Gottschalk)
  2. ^ GN Georgano (Ed.), G. Marshall Naul: Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles. MBI Motor Books International, Osceola WI 1979, ISBN 0-87341-024-6 , p. 97. (to the BMF)