Ditmar & Urban

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Ditmar & Urban

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founding January 31, 1924
resolution November 14, 1925
Seat Graz , Austria
management
  • Rudolf Mansuet Ditmar
  • Otto Urban
Branch Automotive industry

Ditmar & Urban from 1924–1925
Ditmar & Urban from 1924–1925
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Ditmar & Urban - according to older sources Dietrich & Urban - was a manufacturer of automobiles from Austria .

Company history

From June 14, 1919, Rudolf Mansuet Ditmar ran a car dealership at Wielandgasse 6 in Graz and in 1924 was the general agent for Automobili Aurea at Zimmerplatzgasse 1 in Graz. Together with Otto Urban, he founded the company on January 31, 1924. The seat was at Schönaugasse 102 in Graz. In that year the production of automobiles began. The brand name was DU . On November 14, 1925, the company was dissolved and deleted from the trade and cooperative register on June 18, 1927. Older sources give the year 1914 as the only year of production.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. A four-cylinder engine with side-controlled valves propelled the vehicles. The engine developed 22 HP or 30 HP from a displacement of 1460 cm³, depending on the source .

A vehicle of this brand has been preserved. It was on display in 2003 at the Poysdorf Oldtimer Club & Museum in Poysdorf .

The vehicle has been owned by the Association for the Promotion of Historic Vehicles of the Austrian Automobile Manufacturers since 2013 and has been carefully restored. After the work was completed, the vehicle was presented in Graz in August 2018.

literature

  • Stefan Reitgruber: The Graef Brothers' passenger cars. In: Motor Veteranen Zeitung. Issue 146, February 2013, p. 3.
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter DU; Dietrich & Urban.
  • Hans Seper , Helmut Krackowizer , Alois Brusatti : Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X , p. 82.
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 95. (English)
  • The "D&U" car. The story of a Graz automobile and its manufacturer by Franzlegenstein, Heinz Mesicek, Stefan Reitgruber. Self-published in 2014, purpose: research on Austrian automobile history.

Web links

Commons : Ditmar & Urban  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Reitgruber: The passenger coaches of the Gräf brothers. In: Motor Veteranen Zeitung. Issue 146, February 2013, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Report on the company including company name and address (accessed on March 8, 2015)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Virtual Motor Vehicle Museum Austria (accessed on March 8, 2015)
  4. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter DU; Dietrich & Urban.
  5. ^ A b Hans Seper, Helmut Krackowizer, Alois Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X , p. 82.
  6. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 95. (English)
  7. ↑ The "D&U" car. The story of a Graz automobile and its manufacturer by Franzlegenstein, Heinz Mesicek, Stefan Reitgruber. Self-published in 2014, purpose: research on Austrian automobile history.
  8. ↑ From the 1920s: Hidden History: The Graz "D & U" Car On: Kronen Zeitung, August 27, 2018 (accessed on August 22, 2020)