Egg & Egli

Egg & Egli from 1899

The motor tricycle in contemporary advertising

Egg & Egli was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The designer Rudolf Egg and his partner Egli founded in 1896 in Zurich , the automobile factory Zurich Egg & Egli .

Production ended in 1904 when Rudolf Egg left the company to found the Excelsior motor vehicle factory .

vehicles

Rudolf Egg designed his first car in 1893, which went into series production in 1896. It was a tricycle with the single wheel at the back. It was equipped with a single cylinder built -in engine from De Dion-Bouton , which developed 3 hp . In 1899, the production of the tricycle at Egg & Egli ended. Between 1899 and 1904, a few examples of a four-wheeled automobile were made with the engine mounted in the rear.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed at Grandson Castle in Grandson .

Licensed buildings of the tricycle

• Bächtold & Co from Steckborn produced the tricycle under license in 1898.
• Zurich Patent Motor Car Factory Rapid from Zurich produced the tricycle under license in 1899.
• J. Weber & Co from Uster near Zurich produced the tricycle under license from 1899 to 1900.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia , BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
• George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
• Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6

Web links

Commons : Vehicles by Egg & Egli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Egg, Egg & Egli on the website of the Society for Technical Monitoring (GTÜ)