Bock & Hollender

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Bock & Hollender OHG
legal form OHG
founding January 1896
resolution 1911
Reason for dissolution Takeover by the Vienna Automobile Factory
Seat Vienna , Austria-Hungary
management Heinrich Bock
Branch Bicycle manufacturer , automobile manufacturer

Advertising poster in the Vösendorf Bicycle Museum, Lower Austria
Motorbike from Bock & Hollender (with microphone Egon Müller )

The Bock & Hollender OHG was a manufacturer of bicycles , motorcycles and automobiles in Austria-Hungary .

Company history

Heinrich Bock and his partner Hollender founded the company in Vienna in January 1896 . The aim was to trade in bicycles , raw materials and accessories. The company headquarters was at Landstraßer Hauptstrasse 72 in the 3rd district of Vienna. Heinrich Bock left the company in the same year. In 1896 the first self-made bicycles and a motorized tricycle for luggage transport were created, in 1899 the first automobile and in 1904 the first motorcycle. The vehicle designer was Ferdinand Trummer. The brand names were Bock & Hollender and Regent . Distribution in England was carried out by the Regent Carriage Company . Production ended in 1911. In April 1911, the Vienna Automobile Factory emerged from this company .

vehicles

The tricycle was named Regent . A small car with a single cylinder engine followed . The vehicle had a Bosch breakaway, four-speed transmission and chain drive. In 1902 a model with a four-cylinder engine and 12 hp and cardan drive was added. Models with 20 hp and 40 hp followed. In 1907, a small car with a two-cylinder engine and 10/12 hp and a four-cylinder model with 45 hp were on offer.

In May 1909, Ferdinand Trummer won a silver medal with a vehicle of this brand at the international voiturette test drive from Vienna via Trieste and Klagenfurt am Wörthersee back to Vienna.

One car has been preserved and exhibited in the Siegfried Marcus Automobile Museum Stockerau in Stockerau , Austria .

literature

Web links

Commons : Bock & Hollender  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b c d e f Hans Seper, Helmut Krackowizer, Alois Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X .
  3. ^ Hans Seper, Martin Pfundner, Hans Peter Lenz: Austrian automobile history. Eurotax, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-905566-01-X .
  4. ↑ Siegfried Marcus Automobil-Museum Stockerau (accessed on August 15, 2020)