Bodywork C. & R. Geissberger
The body shop C. & R. Geissberger was a Swiss manufacturer of automobile bodies .
The company emerged in 1903 from a coach construction company in Zurich . Before the First World War , around 150 people were employed and Geissberger was the second largest company of its kind in Switzerland. The domicile was on Wiesenstrasse in Zurich.
The rather conservative manufacturer used chassis from Martini , Delage , Hispano-Suiza , Mercedes-Benz and Peugeot in particular , as well as the commercial vehicle manufacturer Saurer , where passenger cars were also made until 1914. In 1929, the Georges Gangloff car body shop, also founded in 1903, took over the business in Geneva and continued to run it as a branch for a short time. With the bankruptcy of the parent company in 1936 at the latest, production in Zurich also ended. The systems were taken over by Carrosserie Langenthal AG in 1937 .
literature
- Ferdinand Hediger: Schweizer Carrossiers 1890-1970 , 1st edition 2013, SwissClassics Publishing AG, Bäch SZ (Switzerland); ISBN 978-3-9524171-0-2 , hardcover
- The Swiss bodybuilders. Catalog for the special exhibition in the Pantheon Basel from October 27, 2013 - April 6, 2014.
- Ferdinand Hediger: Classic Cars 1919–1939. Hallwag-Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 34-441-0348-4 .
- Roger Gloor: Post War Car. Passenger cars 1945–1960. Hallwag-Verlag Bern / Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-444-10263-1 .
- Roger Gloor: Passenger Cars of the 1960s. Hallwag-Verlag, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-444-10307-7 .
- GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present ; Dutton Press, New York, 2nd edition (hardcover) 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 (English)
Web links
- Catalog for the special exhibition Die Schweizer Carrossiers in the Pantheon Basel from October 27, 2013 to April 6, 2014 (accessed on January 8, 2014)
- swisscarregister.ch: C. & R. Geissberger (accessed on November 15, 2016)
- coachbuild.com: Brief portrait of Carosseries Gangloff (accessed February 4, 2013)