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Carl Jurisch chassis construction
legal form
founding 1950s
Seat Altdorf near Nuremberg , Germany
management Carl Jurisch
Branch Motorcycle accessories , automobile manufacturers

Jurisch was a German company in the automotive sector .

Company history

The Nuremberg designer Carl Jurisch founded in the 1950s in Altdorf , the company Carl Jurisch chassis design . Another source names the company name Jurisch GmbH and the headquarters in Wappelshofen near Nuremberg. This should mean Wappeltshofen , a district of the city of Altdorf near Nuremberg since 1972.

Products

Carl Jurisch manufactured rear suspension for motorcycles . In addition, other accessories for motorcycles such as struts , front forks and closed chain cases were created.

vehicles

Jurisch manufactured small cars on behalf of customers. The brand name was Jurisch . There are different information about the period of production: 1954, 1956 to 1957, 1957, 1957 to 1959 or 1959. A total of three vehicles were built.

The only model is called Motoplan by four sources , single-seater by another source , by another cabin and simply by the author Michael Wolff Metternich as a tricycle . It was a tricycle with the single wheel at the back. The structure consisted of the shells of a sidecar from Steib . Instead of doors, the entire upper part of the single-seat body could be folded back. For driving a saw cylinder - four-stroke engine of Heinkel , who is also the Heinkel cab drive. The engine developed 9.3 HP from 173 cc displacement . The vehicle was equipped with an electric starter and a four-speed gearbox. It was 228.6 cm long and 122 cm wide. The curb weight is given as 165 kg or 173 kg, depending on the source.

One vehicle still exists. It was on display at the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum in Madison , Georgia . In February 2013, it was auctioned for $ 103,500 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Microcarmuseum by Bruce Weiner (English, accessed November 8, 2012)
  2. ↑ a b c Allcarindex (English, accessed on January 31, 2014)
  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. 192–193.
  4. ↑ a b c d Hanns-Peter Baron von Thyssen-Bornemissza: Lexicon of the forgotten car brands. (accessed on January 31, 2014)
  5. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Jurisch.
  6. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 160. (English)
  7. ^ D'Auto (Dutch, accessed January 10, 2015)
  8. ↑ a b c d Chris Rees: Three Wheelers A – Z. The definitive encyclopedia of three-wheeled vehicles from 1940 to date. Quiller Print, Croydon 2013, ISBN 978-0-9926651-0-4 , p. 102. (English)
  9. ↑ a b Keith Ray: Bizarre Cars. The strangest vehicles of all time. The History Press, Stroud 2013, p. 133.
  10. ^ Hanns-Peter von Thyssen-Bornemissza, Otto Walenta (Ed.): European small cars from A – Z. The reference book. Volume 2: 1956-1965. Rabenstein Verlag Otto Walenta, Mainz 1996, ISBN 3-929712-03-2 , p. 142.
  11. ↑ Auction (accessed January 12, 2014)