Bufag

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Butenuth Fahrzeugwerke AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1922
resolution 1923
Seat Hanover , Germany
management
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Butenuth Fahrzeugwerke AG , abbreviated to Bufag , was a German company for the production of automobiles that only existed for a short time in Hanover between 1922 and 1923 .

description

Its founders were the 25-year-old mechanical engineering student Hellmuth Butenuth from Dortmund and the designers Karl Pollich and Fidelis Böhler .

A three-wheeled vehicle was to be built with two seats arranged one behind the other (tandem seat). The two front wheels of the car were steered and the single rear wheel was powered by a 250 cc two-stroke motorcycle engine. Another source states that two different air-cooled engines were available. One was a single-cylinder two- stroke engine with a capacity of 200 cc and 2.5 hp and the other was a single-cylinder four-stroke engine with a capacity of 350 cc and 5 hp.

The chassis was a plywood - body in streamlined teardrop shape. The little car was also successful in various races.

The car was exhibited at the Berlin Motor Show in February 1923 . Around 100 of these vehicles were produced; However, there was no further series production because Bufag was bought by Hanomag and Butenuth and his two colleagues Pollich and Böhler moved there on August 1, 1924 to help finish the Hanomag commissary bread they had developed .

literature

  • Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 436 f.
  • Halwart Schrader: Hellmuth Butenuth and his automobiles. In: Automobil und Motorrad Chronik , issue 10/1978, pp. 17-19.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.gtue-oldtimerservice.de/automobil/marke/BUFAG/2885/
  2. ↑ a b Historien und Histörchen (34): The three from the gas station . November 15, 2016, auto-medienportal.net, accessed November 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , pp. 68–69.