Ernst Heinrich Geist Electricity

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Ernst Heinrich Geist Elektrizitäts-AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1890
resolution January 1, 1912
Reason for dissolution Takeover by the electricity company Colonia
Seat Cologne - Zollstock , Germany
management Ernst Heinrich Geist
Branch Electrical engineering , automobile manufacturer

Ernst Heinrich Geist Elektrizitäts-AG was a German electrical engineering company and at times manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

Ernst Heinrich Geist founded the company in Cologne-Zollstock in 1890 to manufacture dynamo machines and other electrical engineering items. In 1900 the production of commercial vehicles began . The brand names were Dyna-Geist and Dynamobil . In 1901 it was converted into a stock corporation . In 1906 passenger cars were also built. Vehicle production ended in 1909. On January 1, 1912, the Colonia electricity company took over the company.

vehicles

The vehicles were powered by gasoline-electric. A gasoline engine powered a dynamo , which supplied the direct current for the electric motor (s) . The gasoline engines came from Argus and the Fafnir works . In addition to trucks , buses were also created . Geist delivered a bus for the first bus line of the Cologne city railways, which opened on December 20, 1907.

The only passenger car model was equipped with a gasoline engine with 24 hp and two electric motors with 12 hp each.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter spirit; Dynamobil.
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 474 (English).
  3. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Geist Elektrizitäts AG in Zollstock . In: KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital. (accessed October 10, 2019)