German ultra-mobile society

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German ultra-mobile society
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1903
resolution 1908
Reason for dissolution bankruptcy
Seat Berlin - Halensee , Germany
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Advertisement for the Deutsche Ultramobilgesellschaft in the magazine Die Woche of October 22, 1904

The Deutsche Ultramobilgesellschaft was an automobile manufacturer that was based in Berlin-Halensee between 1903 and 1908 .

Company history

In 1903 the company began as a German agency for Oldsmobile . The Curved Dash model was offered .

From 1904 a copy of the car was offered as an ultra mobile (note the American spelling, analogous to Oldsmobile ). The runabout with two seats had a single - cylinder four-stroke engine with 1570 cm³ displacement , which was installed in the rear and developed 8 hp (5.9 kW) of power, which was passed on to the rear axle via a two-speed planetary gearbox and a chain. The front-arched bulkhead was typical.

The car was manufactured on behalf of the Eisenach vehicle factory and marketed as a "miracle of German technology". In 1906 production was relocated to the Berlin company WA Boese & Co. (not to be confused with the automobile manufacturer Boes & Co. ).

Also from 1906, the construction of a car with a two-cylinder front engine that developed 12 hp began. This was a proprietary construction that had nothing to do with the Curved Dash.

In 1908 the German Ultramobile Society had to file for bankruptcy.

Leutner from Riga produced the ultra-mobile under license.

Picture gallery

  • Ultramobile 1906

  • The prototype: Oldsmobile Curved Dash (1904)

literature

  • Halwart Schrader : German Cars 1886–1920. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 , pp. 364–365.
  • E. Liepiņš: Rīgas auto. Rīga 1997. (Latvian and English)

Web links

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