Gebhardt & Harhorn

Gebhardt & Harhorn electric vehicle factory
legal form
founding	1910
resolution	1917
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Elite-Werke AG
Seat	Berlin - Schöneberg , Germany
management	Viktor Harhorn
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

Elektromobilfabrik Gebhardt & Harhorn was a German company for the manufacture of electromobiles .

description

The company was based in Berlin-Schöneberg . From 1910 to 1917, electrically powered cars and trucks were built there under the Geha brand . The designer was Victor Harhorn , who previously worked for the Berlin Electromobil and accumulator factory Fiedler & Co. KG (BEF) .

The result was three-wheeled vehicles with wheel hub motors in each front wheel, which made 2.2 or 4.4 kW. In 1911 a four-wheeled vehicle appeared, the left rear wheel of which was driven by an electric motor with 4.4 kW or 7.4 kW, as a passenger and truck. The maximum speed of all these cars was 25-30 km / h, the range was 80 km.

In 1917 the company was taken over by the Elite-Werke in Brand-Erbisdorf , whose subsidiary Elitewagen -AG sold a standard electric vehicle pre-tensioning vehicle designed by Harhorn for street cleaning and garbage disposal vehicles of all kinds under the promotional name “The Electric Horse”.

literature

• Halwart Schrader : German Cars 1885–1920. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 , p. 184 f.

Individual evidence

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. 149–150.
2. ↑ Elitewagen-AG (Ed.): The electric horse. (28-page advertising leaflet) Berlin undated ( as reprint : Berlin 1986.)