Dorner oil motors

Dorner Ölmotoren AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1923
resolution	1927
Reason for dissolution	economic difficulties
Seat	Hanover , Germany
Branch	Engine manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

The Dorner oil Motoren AG was a German automobile manufacturer from Hannover .

Share over 1000 marks in Dorner Oelmotoren AG from July 1, 1923

Company history

Hermann Dorner founded the company for the production of diesel engines in 1923 . The company also manufactured automobiles between 1923 and 1924 . Around 1927 the company closed due to economic difficulties.

vehicles

The 3/10 PS model was the world's first production car with a diesel engine. For driving a provided air-cooled V-2 engine with 770 cc displacement ( bore 70 mm, stroke of 100 mm), the 4.5 hp (3.3 kW) at 1400 min ^-1 developed. There was also a version with a single cylinder engine . The diesel engine worked on the four-stroke principle . The vehicle was a small car with a front engine, cardan shaft and rear wheel drive. The information on the number of pieces produced varies between around 10, 24 and around 25.

Engines

In 1926 the company manufactured four-cylinder diesel engines for Max Jüdel AG in Osnabrück ; Hermann Dorner was in 1927 in the United States on behalf of Packard instrumental in the development of the first diesel engine for the aviation industry, the Packard DR-980 , involved.

literature

• Werner Oswald : Deutsche Autos 1920–1945 , 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart (1996), ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , page 439
• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• GN Georgano : cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
• GN Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present , Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 (English)

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)
• World history of the automobile (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} German cars 1920–1945
2. ↑ ^{a b c} website of the GTÜ
3. ↑ ^{a b} cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours
4. ^ ^{A b} The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} World history of the automobile
6. ↑ The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928, Robert B. Meyer SMITHSONIAN ANNALS OF FLIGHT VOLUME 1 · NUMBER 2 , available online at gutenberg.org, in English, accessed on May 24, 2015