Goericke

This article covers the bike manufacturer. For further meanings see Göricke (disambiguation) .

Maschinenfabrik August Göricke Bielefelder Maschinen- und Fahrradwerke AG, August Göricke Görickewerke AG Göricke-Fahrrad- und Maschinenfabrik, Nippel & Co.
legal form	Corporation
founding	December 24, 1874
resolution	1964
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Pantherwerke AG
Seat	Bielefeld , Germany
management	August Goericke
Number of employees	about 700 (1904)
Branch	Bicycle manufacturer , formerly a motor vehicle manufacturer
Website	www.goericke.eu

The August Göricke machine factory was founded on December 24, 1874 and was one of the most important German bicycle manufacturers in Bielefeld . In 1964 the company was bought by Pantherwerke AG , which today produces bicycles under the brand names Göricke and Panther .

history

Bicycles have been produced since 1895. In 1899 the name was changed to Bielefelder Maschinen- und Fahrradwerke AG, August Göricke . From 1903 motorcycles were also produced. In 1921 it was renamed Görickewerke AG

A year after the bankruptcy in 1929, a German-Dutch consortium NVTE (Naam Looze Vennootschap tot Exploitatieder Göricke Fabrieken) bought the company, which then operated as a GmbH. In October 1941, after the merger with Maschinen- und Apparatebau Erich Nippel, the name was changed to Göricke-Fahrrad- und Maschinenfabrik, Nippel & Co. Since 1964, the Göricke brand has been produced by Pantherwerke AG (Löhne).

Products

Göricke motorcycle from 1903

Bicycle from Göricke

Bicycles with cardan drive have been produced since 1899 . From 1932 bicycles made of duralumin followed . The company also manufactured mopeds and motorcycles. The product range extended up to 500 cm³ machines. In the period from the 1950s onwards, Göricke mostly built engines from the Schweinfurt-based Fichtel - & - Sachs group and from JLO with displacements from 50 to 200 cm³.

Former automobile manufacturer

Between 1906 and 1908 the company also manufactured three-wheeled automobiles . The model from 1906 to 1907 was called the motor tricycle . It was technically a motorcycle with a preload car, making it a tricar . The front passenger seat was between the two wheels. A V2 engine is mentioned - a four-stroke engine from Fafnir . It was air-cooled and had a displacement of 425 cc . On this basis there were also rear plug-in wagons.

The Göricke car followed between 1907 and 1908 . It had one front and two rear wheels. The same engine as before, now specified with 5 HP , was mounted behind the front wheel and drove the rear wheels via a chain. Above the rear axle was a bench for two people. Was steered with a steering wheel.

In 1950 cargo tricycles with a rear single wheel and a front loading box were manufactured. They had a single - cylinder two-stroke engine with a capacity of 47 cm³ and 1.5 hp from Fichtel & Sachs.

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  Advertisement from 1904

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  September 25, 1910: Advertising banner (in the background) for Göricke bicycles and the Triumph company in Hanover ;
  Documentary photography in the fund of the Historisches Museum Hannover

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  Share of RM 100 in Görickewerke AG dated August 30, 1929

literature

• Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1

Web links

Commons : Göricke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.modelleisenbahnfan.de ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Product description 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 172–175.

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 36.2 ″  E