Vehicle and mechanical engineering Gustav Kroboth

Fahrzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH Gustav Kroboth
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1949
resolution	1955
Seat	Seestall , Germany
management	Gustav Kroboth
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

Kroboth all-weather scooter from 1954

Kroboth all-weather scooter from 1954

Fahrzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH Gustav Kroboth was a German manufacturer of scooters and automobiles .

Company history

Gustav Kroboth, who was already manufacturing motor vehicles in his company Favorit, Stavba motorů a vozidel G. Kroboth in Šternberk in the Sudetenland before the Second World War , founded the company in Seestall in 1949 and began producing motor scooters. In 1954, automobiles were built. In the summer of 1955 the company went bankrupt .

vehicles

Scooter

The scooters had built-in motors from Sachs . There was a choice of engines with a displacement of 98, 147 and 173 cc .

Automobiles

→ Main article : Kroboth all-weather scooter

The only model was a three- wheeled scooter mobile . About 50 or about 56 copies were made. Another source states that eight vehicles were made in 1955, although it remains unclear how many there were in 1954.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
• S. Ewald: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-5364-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kroboth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for technical monitoring for motorcycle production
• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring for Automobile Production
• Image of a Kroboth scooter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
3. ↑ S. Ewald: Encyclopedia of the motorcycle. Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-5364-6 .
4. ↑ Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 204.
5. ^ Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss : The German automobile industry. Documentation from 1886 until today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 508 .