Falcon & Co.

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Falke Motorfahrzeuge Albert Falke & Co.
legal form
founding 1889
resolution 1908
Seat Mönchengladbach , Germany
management Albert Falcon
Branch Bicycle manufacturer , automobile manufacturer

Falke & Co. was a bicycle and automobile manufacturer based in Mönchengladbach . The bicycle factory founded by Albert Falke in 1889 also manufactured passenger cars from 1896.

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First a three-wheeler and a four-wheeled Voiturette with De Dion-Bouton engines were built. The tricycle had one front and two rear wheels. The single - cylinder four-stroke engine developed 1.8 hp from a 349 cm³ displacement . The vehicle had space for one person on a saddle. A two-seat trailer was available.

The voiturette was very similar to the French Decauville , whose German license was actually owned by Heinrich Ehrhardt . The air-cooled two-cylinder engine under the seats was started with a crank that was inserted into the side. In contrast to its model, the falcon had a three-speed gearbox and fully elliptical springs. Another source mentions a built-in engine from De Dion-Bouton with a displacement of 490 cm³.

Later, cars completely in-house construction with water-cooled two- and four-cylinder engines appeared , initially from Fafnir , later from in-house production. In addition, from 1906, the Rheinische Nadelfabrik AG from Aachen invested in the company. The built from 1907 to 1908 four-cylinder model with page-controlled valves and the first cast engine block in Germany provided 12 hp (8.8 kW) of 1.500 cm³ at 1500 min -1 and a top speed of 60 km / h.

This Falcon 6/12 PS was the last model before automobile production was stopped due to lack of demand.

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  1. ↑ 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. 115–116.
  2. ^ 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. 16 .