Ernst Asper

Ernst Asper
legal form
founding	1908
resolution	1911
Seat	Küsnacht , Switzerland
management	Ernst Asper
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Ernst Asper was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Ernst Asper, who previously worked at Rochet-Schneider , founded the company that bore his name in Dietikon in 1908 for the production of automobiles. The brand name was Asper . A little later, the company moved to Küsnacht . In 1910 he took over parts of Ajax AG, which had gone into liquidation . Production ended in 1911. A total of around 30 vehicles were built. One vehicle was exported to Austria .

vehicles

The company manufactured vehicles with four-cylinder engines. The 40 hp engines were mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The transmissions had four gears. With the round grille, the vehicles resembled the models from Delaunay-Belleville and Hotchkiss et Cie .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
• Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 19, 2012)