Cyklon machine factory

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Cyklon Maschinenfabrik GmbH

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 1900
resolution 1931
Reason for dissolution Sales problems
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Paul Schauer
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

The Cyklon Maschinenfabrik GmbH (sometimes Cyclon ) was a German manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles , based in Berlin and production at the Friedrichshain Boxhagener road in block 74 . It belonged to the company complex of the entrepreneur Siegfried Hirschmann ( Deutsche Kabelwerke ). From 1919, the Cyklon-Werke belonged to Jakob Schapiro's group of companies .

The plans by the civil engineer Karl Bernhard constructed production building stood since the 1990s under monument protection , but was demolished of 2006. With the addition of further areas in the surrounding area, the new Box Seven residential area was created .

history

Cyclone from 1900 in the Neckarsulm two-wheeled museum

Motorcycles (1900–1905)

The company founder Paul Schauer started series production of motorcycles in 1900 as one of the first in Germany. To do this, he used built-in motors from Werner , Zedel and De Dion-Bouton . The first model was a front-wheel drive two-wheeler . A handlebar - mounted , air-cooled, alternately controlled motor with an inlet sniffing valve, 300 cm³ and 1.5 HP drove the front wheel via a belt. An intended army order did not materialize in 1902 because the handling seemed too complicated. Motorcycle production was stopped in 1905.

Automobiles (1902–1923, 1927–1931)

Cyklon Cyklonette from 1904

In 1902 the company brought out a three-wheeled vehicle (one wheel at the front, rigid axle at the rear) with a single-cylinder engine on the front wheel under the name Cyklonette . The engine had a displacement of 450 cc and delivered 3.5 hp (2.6 kW). Without a gearbox, the front wheel was driven by a belt and later by a roller chain. A long lever with a gas cable and ignition adjustment was used to steer the vehicle. Two years later there was also a version with two cylinders (750–1290 cm³, 10 PS (7.4 kW))

On the frame welded from I-beams , there were various structures with two or four seats, two or four doors. Above all, delivery vehicles were manufactured. In 1914 the single-cylinder cyclonette was discontinued, and the two-cylinder model was discontinued in 1923. Subsequently, chassis were made for Schebera .

From 1927 a new car of its own design was offered. The 9/40 PS had the same Ambi-Budd body as the Adler Standard 6 and was the cheapest six-cylinder car in Germany. The vehicle was sold by the Dixi -Werke. After BMW took over these plants , production of the car had to be discontinued in 1929 due to a lack of sales opportunities. In the same year, a new six-cylinder with a displacement of 1.8 liters appeared, of which only a few were made in two years. In 1931 the company was deleted from the official register.

Factory building

After the Cyklon production was discontinued, the factory building was used by the parent company Deutsche Kabelwerke AG for various production purposes.

literature

  • Erwin Tragatsch: All motorcycles - 1894 until today. 5th edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1982.
  • Halwart Schrader : German Cars 1885–1920. 1st edition. Volume 1, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 .
  • Kathrin Chod: Cyklon machine factory . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . tape 1 : A to O . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  • Werner Oswald : German cars. Volume 2: 1920-1945. 2nd edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6 .
  • Christian Burchard: Cyklonette - a small mobile with a dream to become a state car. In: Archive Info. German museum. Volume 10, No. 1, 2009, pp. 12-13.
  • Detlef Krenz: Free in the wind. With the cyclonette into the age of cars. In: Friedrichshainer Zeitzeiger. June 2019.

Web links

Commons : Cyklon Maschinenfabrik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sven Heinemann: Boxhagen begins. The historical development of the property at Boxhagener Strasse 79–82 from 1771 to the present day . 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-054063-9 .
  2. ↑ Boxhagener Strasse 80 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1941, IV, p. 95.