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Fischer from 1913

Fischer was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Fischer-Wagen AG was founded in 1908 by Martin Fischer with the help of a silk manufacturer in Zurich after he had left Turicum AG .

Fischer developed a side-operated slide motor , the single slide of which was designed to perform a double movement; it oscillated and continuously changed its direction of rotation. This was also a very early engine in monobloc design; d. H. no longer with cylinder blocks cast in pairs.

In 1911 the engine was shown at the Berlin Motor Show. As a result, several automobile manufacturers acquired licenses for replicas: In Orléans , the automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer Delaugère & Clayette became aware of the Fischer system and was licensed to manufacture engines for the 2.7 liter Type SS ("SS": Sans Soupapes ; valveless). This business relationship ended with the outbreak of the First World War .

The collaboration with another small manufacturer, De Bazelaire in Paris , who experimented with a six-cylinder engine in 1913, but ultimately with bought-in engines from Ballot resp. rapidly obsolescent T-head engines from Janvier remained.

Representatives of the Aristos Company in New York City had also seen the engine in Berlin. They acquired a license to manufacture their planned luxury car, Mondex-Magic , and in 1914 and 1915 produced two models in the top price range. Both had six-cylinder engines according to the Fischer patent; the smaller one had a displacement of 4.2 liters and 40 hp according to the calculation formula at the time, the larger one 7 liters and 60 hp; the latter was also used in the Palmer-Singer Magic Six , which appeared in January 1914. In 1919 there was a collaboration with the Swiss Industrial Society , or SIG for short . Production was stopped in 1922.

In the end, Fischer had far less success with his engine than Charles Yale Knight , whose principle prevailed for a while and was used by leading brands such as Mercedes , Daimler , Minerva , Panhard & Levassor or Voisin in some cases until the 1930s. There is evidence that the engine was not performing well. When Palmer-Singer went bankrupt in March 1914, "expensive experiments" were cited as one of the reasons.

vehicles

The first 16/22 hp model had a four-cylinder engine with 2011 cc displacement and 70 copies were produced from 1908 to 1911. Between 1911 and 1914, 200 units of the successor model with a four-cylinder slide engine, which developed between 33 and 35 hp , were produced. In 1914 two copies of the 40 HP SS model with a six-cylinder slide engine, 4100 cc displacement and 40 HP output were also produced. From 1919 the last model was a small car with two seats in tandem, powered by a V2 engine from MAG .

Two vehicles of this brand can be viewed in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne .

Licensee

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • GN Georgano (Ed.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present ; Dutton Press, New York, 2nd edition (hardcover) 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0 (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

Commons : Fischer-Wagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georgano: Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars ; 2nd ed. (1973), p. 533
  2. ↑ a b Georgano: Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars ; 2nd ed. (1973), pp. 234-235
  3. ^ Georgano: Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars ; 2nd ed. (1973), p. 493
  4. ↑ a b Kimes (1985), p. 949
  5. ↑ a b Kimes (1996), pp. 1147-1148
  6. ^ Georgano: Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars ; 2nd ed. (1973), p. 241
  7. ↑ Kimes (1985), pp. 1106-1107