Goliath (automobile manufacturer)

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Goliath-Werk GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1928/1949
resolution 1961
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Bremen , Germany
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Hastedter Osterdeich 222 in Bremen- Hastedt . The Goliath House was designed by the Hamburg architect Rudolf Lodders , just like the facilities at Lloyd Motoren Werke in Bremen- Neustadt
Goliath pioneer
Goliath GP 700 V
Goliath hunting vehicle,
built in 1959
Goliath GP 1100
Hansa 1100 Coupé
Goli , built in 1959

Goliath was an automobile manufacturer in Bremen-Hastedt belonging to the Borgward group .

history

Beginning

Together with his partner, the businessman Wilhelm Tecklenborg , Carl FW Borgward founded the company Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co. in 1928.A law of 1928 allowed and was allowed to drive vehicles with fewer than four wheels and a displacement of less than 200 cubic centimeters without a driver's license tax free. The three-wheeled developments of the company Bremer Kühlerfabrik Borgward & Co. were built as the first models : Blitzkarren (2.2 HP) and Goliath Rapid / Standard, both open load carts built on motorcycle technology.

From 1931 the first closed three-wheeled passenger car Goliath Pioneer followed . The "pioneer" has a single - cylinder two-stroke engine from the ILO engine works in the rear (198 cm³, 5.5 HP) and a three-speed gearbox; Top speed 60 km / h. The body is made of wood covered with artificial leather and rests on a stable frame made of U-profiles. By 1934, around 4,000 of these small cars were sold in various body styles.

The commercial vehicle variant of the pioneer was the Goliath F 200 and F 400 , box and flatbed trucks. The pioneer itself was further developed than the Hansa models 400 and 500 , which were four-wheeled passenger cars.

New car registrations in the German Reich from 1933 to 1938

year Registration numbers
1933 63
1934 52
1935
1936
1937 2
1938

Source:

After the Second World War

The plant was destroyed in an air raid on Bremen in October 1944. But reconstruction began just a few months after the end of the war. Initially, handcarts and bicycle trailers were produced.

In September 1949, Goliath-Werk GmbH was founded as an independent subsidiary of the Borgward Group. The registered capital of 100,000  DM applied to half Carl F. W. Borg Ward; His wife Elisabeth owned 40,000 DM and Friedrich Kynast provided 10,000 DM. After Kynast's death in 1950, Borgward took over the share at face value from his heirs.

In the same year, 1949, Goliath launched the GD 750 three-wheeler transporter (750 kg payload), which was very popular with small businesses and quickly became a sales success with an initial price of DM 3,425.00. Adjusted for inflation in today's currency, this corresponds to 9,000 euros. The GD was replaced in 1955 by the more modern Goli . These three-wheeled, simply constructed and inexpensive Goliath transporters were a permanent fixture on the streets of post-war Germany and contributed significantly to the economic miracle .

With a streamlined three-wheeler with a 700 cc two-stroke engine, which was developed under Technical Director August Momberger , Goliath set 38 world records in the newly created classes for three-wheeled vehicles up to 750 and 1200 cc at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry in France was driven 19 times. The most important records were the two hours with an average of 155 km / h and the 2000 miles with 130 km / h. Hugo Steiner, Adolf Brudes , Hans-Hugo Hartmann , Otto Koch-Bodes and Helmut Polensky alternated as drivers . Hugo Steiner had a fatal accident in another record attempt with the three-wheeler on the Hockenheimring.

The purpose of such records was to attract attention to the production vehicles.

The Goliath Jagdwagen Type 31 off-road vehicle, developed from 1954 onwards, was intended to open up the military sector to the company, but failed to convince the Federal Border Police in Lübeck and the Bundeswehr in Andernach in January 1956 . The repaired model Type 34 with four-stroke - boxer engine in 1957 came too late, because the decision already in favor of the DKW Munga had fallen.

The Goliath GP 1100 car model with a four-stroke engine was offered under the name Hansa 1100 from 1958 to avoid the poor image of the brand caused by the two-stroke three-wheeled vehicles .

Vehicles produced

After the Second World War, the production program included:

Passenger cars

  • Goliath GP 700 V / E (from 1950; 1951/52 also convertible sedan and from January 1952 as station wagon): sedan with 688 cm³ two-cylinder two-stroke carburettor engine and 24 / 25.5 or 29 hp. The GP 700 E with gasoline direct injection and also 29 hp was delivered from July 1952. With its pontoon body, which was still unusual in 1950, the car offers space for five people with a wheelbase of 2.30 meters. The all-steel body is welded to a central tubular frame. The engine and transmission of the front-wheel drive GP 700 are installed transversely in front of the front axle; the four-speed gearbox with crutch shift is fully synchronized from December 1952. At the front, the GP 700 has an independent suspension on transverse leaf springs, at the rear a rigid axle with two longitudinal leaf springs and telescopic shock absorbers on all four wheels as well as hydraulic brakes. Production of the two-stroke models ended in January 1957 in favor of the Goliath GP 1100. Price of the limousine: 1950 6,420 DM - 1955: 5,115 DM.
  • GP 700 E sports coupé (1951–53): In addition to two prototypes by the body builder Johannes Rudy, Rometsch built 25 coupés with aluminum bodies on the chassis of the Goliath GP 700 and an engine with the still unusual gasoline injection. At first it was a two-cylinder two-stroke engine with a displacement of 688 cm³ and an output of 29 hp. However, this engine proved to be too weak and was replaced by a version with 36 hp that had been drilled out to 845 cm³. The car cost 9,700 DM and was 500 DM cheaper than the outwardly very similar Porsche 356 . With a wheelbase of 2.30 meters and a slightly longer body, the Goliath Coupé appeared more elongated than the Porsche and reached a top speed of 134 km / h. At 830 kg, it was 90 kg lighter than the sedan.
  • Goliath GP 900 V / E (1955–1957): sedan and station wagon with 886 cm³ displacement. Price: DM 5,670 - 38 hp carburettor version, DM 5,750 with 40 hp direct injection
  • Goliath GP 1100 (1957–1958): sedan, convertible sedan, coupé and station wagon with a new four-cylinder four-stroke boxer engine , 1093 cc and 40 hp. The Goliath 1100 Luxus with 55 hp cost 7,165 DM (July 1957); Combined price: DM 6,135–6,615
  • Hansa 1100 (1958–1961): sedan, coupé and station wagon with 40 or 55 hp, successor to the GP 1100. Price of the 55 hp coupé: 7,785 DM (1959)
  • Hansa 1300 (1961): The last attempt by Goliath was the "Hansa 1300" sedan, a one-off, the body of which was designed by the "Studio Technico Pietro Frua " in Italy. The car is still preserved and is privately owned.

Vans

  • Goliath Atlas (1932–1935): trucks and flatbed trucks
  • Goliath F 200/400 (1933–1938): three-wheel delivery van with one or two-cylinder two-stroke engine, 200 or 398 cm³, 6 or 13 hp with a wooden body.
  • Goliath FW 200 /400 (1938-1939): tricycle vans with one- or two-cylinder two-stroke engine, 200, or 398 cc, 6 or PS 13 with sheet metal body.
  • Goliath GD 750 (1949–1955): three-wheel delivery van with a two-cylinder two-stroke engine, 396 cm³, 13–14 hp. A 494 cm³ engine with 15 hp, 55 km / h, was optionally available at an additional cost. The car was delivered from April 1949 to June 1955.
  • Goliath Goli (1955–1961): Successor to the GD 750 with a more modern body, was produced by Borgward until the bankruptcy
  • Goliath GV 800 (1951–1953): first four-wheel delivery van from Goliath, two-cylinder two-stroke, 465 cm³ and 16 HP or 586 cm³ and 21 HP, drive on the rear wheels. The car cost 1200 DM more than the GD 750 and only offered 50 kg more payload. The economic success therefore remained low - only 4016 units were built.
  • Goliath Express (1953–1961): completely new and much more modern four-wheel delivery van, based on the car models, front-wheel drive, until 1957 with the two-stroke engines from the car range (1953–1955: 688 cc, 29 hp; 1955–1957 : 886 cm³, 40 PS) 1957–1961 with the four-stroke engine of the GP 1100 (1093 cm³, 40 PS)
  • Goliath Express “Luxus-Bus” (1955): eight-seater (also available as ten-seater for an extra charge) with 1.1-l four-stroke engine (from 1957), 40 hp, and front-wheel drive. The equipment included synthetic leather upholstery, fabric-covered side panels, roof edge glazing ( panorama glazing ) and a 1.44 m long sliding roof from Golde. Although the Goliath, at DM 8,070, cost around DM 400 less and was more powerful than the similar special model of the Volkswagen transporter ( "Samba bus" ), it was not successful on the market. Only around 500 “luxury buses” were sold.

Trend-setting constructions

The cars from Borgward / Goliath were modern in their time: pontoon body, doors hinged at the front, turn signals instead of indicators, inner fenders and split rear seats in the station wagon. The two-stroke engines were also available in a direct injection version; together with Gutbrod (who came on the market just a month before Goliath), Goliath was a pioneer in this technology, which was only recently reintroduced. Due to flushing losses , the conventional two-stroke engine consumed a relatively large amount as soon as the cubic capacity increased - with direct injection (which required separate lubrication with fresh oil ), consumption could be reduced by around a third. In addition to improved idling, a welcome side effect was an overrun fuel cutoff . Since the technology was relatively complex and completely new at the time, the Goliath workshops and Bosch services were sometimes overwhelmed by problems, so that some injectors were converted to a carburettor version.

The Goliath plant went bankrupt in 1961 in the wake of the Borgward crisis, but under the direction of the bankruptcy administrator Hans Richard Schulze, it produced further passenger cars from residual stocks until 1963.

photos

  • Goliath GP 700, manufactured in 1954

  • Goliath GP 700
    (1950–1957)

  • Goliath GP 700 Sport
    (1951–1953)

  • Goliath GD 750 platform body
    (1949–1955)

  • Goliath GD 750 with box body

  • Goliath Express
    (1953-1961)

  • Hansa 1300 Frua
    (1961)

  • Goliath GD 750 with wooden structure
    (1952)

Timelines

Vehicles 1919–1945

Timeline of the Hansa-Lloyd, Hansa , Goliath and Borgward models from 1919 to 1945
Type Hansa-Lloyd Werke AG and Fahrzeugwerke Borgward & Co.
and from 1928 Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co. as two companies 		connected Hansa-Lloyd and Goliath-Werke Borgward & Tecklenborg oHG
from 1936: Hansa-Lloyd and Goliath-Werke AG 		Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath works Carl F. W. Borgward and Carl F. W. Borgward, automobile and engine works
with Carl Borgward as sole owner
1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5
Microcar 3-wheeled pioneer
Small car 400 500
Middle class Type p 1100 / 1700
1700 sports
2000 2000/2300
Upper class Matador Consul / luxury senator 3500
Type A 6 Type A 8
Treff-Aß Trump ace
Delivery vans / vans / minibuses 3-wheeled Lightning carts
Rapid / Standard F 200 & F 400 FW 200
FW 400
4-wheeled K1 Express (1929) L500 L600
Atlas Atlas record
Trucks and buses 1 - 3 t payload Superior express express L 1400/1 t
Express (L 1.5) Columbus Columbus L 2000
Bremen I & II (SL 1.5) III IV
2 - 4 t payload Europe I & II (SL 2) III IV Europe V
3t Type 3t GW B 3000
3 - 5 t payload Mercury (L III) II III IV 4.5 - 5 t 5 t
Roland
  • Offered by Hansa-Lloyd-Werke AG and later by "Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath Werke AG" under the "Hansa-Lloyd" brand.
  • Offered by Hansa-Lloyd-Werke AG and later by "Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath Werke AG" under the "Hansa" brand.
  • Offered by Fahrzeugwerke Borgward & Co. and later by “Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath Werke AG” under the “ Goliath ” brand .
  • Offered by Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath Werke AG under the “Borgward” brand.
    		•

    Vehicles 1947–1963

    Timeline of Borgward , Lloyd , Goliath and Hansa models from 1947 to 1963
    Type Foundation of three individual companies (Borgward, Lloyd, Goliath) Bundling in Borgward Holding insolvency
    1940s 1950s 1960s
    7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3
    Small car Lloyd 250
    Lloyd 300 Lloyd 400
    Lloyd 600 / Lloyd Alexander
    Lower middle class Lloyd Arabella
    Borgward Arabella de Luxe
    Goliath GP 700 Goliath GP 900 Goliath GP 1100 Hansa 1100
    Middle class Borgward Hansa 1500 Borgward Hansa 1800 Borgward Isabella
    Upper class Borgward Hansa 2400 Sport
    Borgward Hansa 2400 Pullman Borgward P 100
    Sports car Goliath GP 700 E. Borgward Isabella Coupe
    Off-road vehicle Goliath type 31 Goliath hunting car type 34
    Borgward B 2000 A / O Kübelwagen of Bussing built further
    Delivery vans / vans 3-wheeled Goliath GD 750 Goliath Goli
    4-wheeled Lloyd LT 500 Lloyd LT 600
    Goliath GV 800 Goliath Express
    Truck / minibus 1–2 t payload Borgward B 1000 Borgward B 1250 Borgward B 1500 Borgward B 1500 Borgward B511
    Borgward B 1500 F. Borgward B611
    2–3 t payload Borgward B 2000
    Borgward B 2500 Borgward B 522
    Borgward B 2500 F (chassis for buses) Borgward B 622
    3–6 t payload Borgward B 3000 Borgward B 4000 Borgward B 533
    Borgward B 544
    Borgward B 4500 Borgward B 555
    Borgward B655
  • Offered by Lloyd Motorenwerke GmbH under the “Lloyd” brand.
  • Offered by Lloyd Motorenwerke GmbH under the “Borgward” brand.
  • Offered by Carl FW Borgward GmbH under the “Borgward” brand.
  • Offered by Goliath-Werk GmbH under the “Hansa” brand (from 1958).
  • Offered by Goliath-Werk GmbH under the “Goliath” brand.
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    Companies

    Borgward group until bankruptcy in 1961
    Brand / company 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
    0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2
    Borgward Bremer Kühlerfabrik Borgward & Co Fahrzeugwerke Borgward & Co.
    "Goliath" as a brand     		Goliath works
    Borgward & Co.     		Hansa-Lloyd and
    Goliath-Werke
    Borgward & Tecklenborg     		Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath Werke AG Carl FW Borgward Carl FW Borgward GmbH Dr. Carl F. W. Borgward Holding
    Goliath Goliath-Werk GmbH
    "Goliath" and "Hansa" as brands     		Dr. Carl F. W. Borgward Holding
    Hansa Hansa Automobil Gesellschaft Hansa-Lloyd AG Cooperation in the Association of German Automobile Manufacturers (GDA) Majority in
    Borgward and Tecklenborg
    Lloyd Norddeutsche Automobil und Motoren AG (NAMAG),
    "Lloyd" as a brand     		Lloyd Maschinenfabrik GmbH Lloyd Motoren Werke GmbH
    NAG AAG New Automobile GmbH National Automobile Corporation Cooperation in the Association of German Automobile Manufacturers (GDA) to Büssing AG
    as "Büssing-NAG"
    Brennabor Brennabor works
  •  Brand / company in the Borgward group
  •  Brand / company that later belonged to the Borgward Group
  •  Brand / company that later belonged to the Borgward Group (in GDA cooperation)
  •  Independent company (in GDA cooperation)
  •  Independent company
    		•

    literature

    • A new mid-range European car, the Goliath 1100 . In: KFT 5/1957, p. 190.
    • Birgid Hanke : Carl FW Borgward - entrepreneur and car designer . Delius-Klasing, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3145-1 .
    • Werner Kroll: The lively Goliath . Goliath-Werk, Bremen 1952. - 40 sheets.
    • Brief, Peter: drive better, drive Borgward 1958 , Borgward Chronicle. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-927485-58-7 .
    • Peter Kurz: ... and those who have had their lives drive a Goliath. Kurz-Schönholz and Ziesemer Verlag, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-931148-95-5 .
    • Peter Kurz: Prototypes and small series vehicles from the Borgward, Goliath and Lloyd plants. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-927485-53-2 .
    • Hans-Gunther Riedel: Strictly speaking: Goliath Sport - development, technology, data. Verlag Peter Kurz, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-927485-75-4 .
    • Georg Schmidt: Borgward - Carl FW Borgward and his cars . 4th edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-87943-679-7 .
    • Christian Steiger: Type compass Borgward - Goliath - Lloyd passenger cars 1931–1970 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01946-9 .
    • Christian Steiger, Thomas Wirth, Alexander wines: helpers of the economic miracle. The vans of the construction era . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-464-X .
    • The new GOLIATH jeep with a four-cylinder four-stroke engine . In: Automobiltechnische Zeitschrift 59 (1957), No. 7, pp. 209-210.
    • Heinrich Völker: Silver Arrows from Bremen . Racing sports car from the Borgward works. Peter Kurz, Bremen 2004, ISBN 3-927485-43-8 .

    Web links

    Commons : Goliath Wagon  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ 1928 - 1978: 50 years of VIDAL + SOHN. In: tempo-dienst.de. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
    2. ↑ "Master carpenter from Staufenberg with bride on a DKW motorcycle, around 1930". Historical image documents from Hessen. (As of April 7, 2011). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
    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. 328 .
    4. ↑ The amount was based on the template: Inflation determined, has been rounded to a full 100 euros and relates to last January.
    5. ↑ Christian Steiger, Thomas Wirth, Alexander wines: Transporter of the economic boom. Heel Verlag GmbH, Königswinter 1996, ISBN 3-89365-464-X
    6. ↑ Völker (2004), pp. 5–10
    7. ↑ Peter Short: Borgward type customer . Delius Klasing, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7688-2599-3 , p. 45 and 46.
    8. ↑ More PS from Bremen. In: Motor vehicle technology 9/1956, p. 344.
    9. ↑ Data sheet-GV800. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
    10. ↑ Goliath Express 1100: Post-war transporter in the test. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
    11. ↑ Goliath luxury bus. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .