Vehicle factory Rudolf Weide

The vehicle factory Rudolf Weide was a German automobile manufacturer. Another source names the motor vehicle factory Rudolf Weide . In advertisements from 1929, Rudolf Weide, Nordhausen is in one line and below that the telephone number , motor vehicle factory and the street .

description

The company was based in Nordhausen . From 1925 to 1933, small cars were built there under the name RWN ( R udolf W eide N ordhausen).

These were three-wheeled vehicles . Various air-cooled engines have been handed down. Single - cylinder two-stroke engine from Schlieha with 198 cm³ displacement and 5 HP output, single-cylinder four-stroke engine from JAP of the same size with 5.5 HP output, single-cylinder four-stroke engine from Richard Küchen with 348 cm³ displacement and 14 HP output as well as 498 cm³ displacement and 19 HP Power. The engine power was transmitted to the rear wheels via a three-speed gearbox and a chain. The car had a single front wheel that was guided in a motorcycle fork. This was followed by the car body, which also housed the engine. The driver sat behind it. In the case of the open- top passenger cars , either a luggage compartment or two emergency seats followed . The commercial vehicles either had a flatbed or a box for cargo.

The vehicles were only made in small numbers.

literature

• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart (1996), ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , page 455.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , pp. 316-317.