Fritz Fend, technical manufacturing company

Fritz Fend, technical manufacturing company
legal form
founding	1946
resolution	1953
Seat	Rosenheim , Germany
management	Fritz Fend
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Emblem of the Fend runabout 101

Fritz Fend, technical manufacturing company was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Fritz Fend founded a manufacturing company in Rosenheim in 1946 . The production of small vehicles began on June 19, 1948 - initially without an engine - which were intended in particular for the disabled. Shortly afterwards, experiments with motor vehicles began. In 1949 the first model was exhibited at a technical fair in Frankfurt am Main . The brand name was Fend . At the end of 1951, Fend and a few partners founded Fend Motor Vehicle GmbH in Munich , which was dissolved shortly afterwards. In December 1951, production of the only car model ended. In 1952 he signed a contract with Willy Messerschmitt from Messerschmitt AG . Fend further developed the vehicle, which came on the market in March 1953 as the Messerschmitt cabin scooter .

vehicles

→ Main article : Fend Flitzer

Fend manufactured mini cars with three wheels. The only motorized vehicle was the Fend runabout . A total of around 282 vehicles were built. Another source cites 250 new registrations for 1951 in Germany, but no figures for 1950 and 1952.

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  Fend Flitzer cabin scooter

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  Fend Flitzer cabin scooter

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  Roadster

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 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
• Hanns Peter Rosellen: German small car. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-89350-040-5 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
3. ^ 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. 492 .