Gutbrod (company)
Standard Fahrzeugfabrik GmbH
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legal form | Company with limited liability |
founding | 1926 |
resolution | 1996 |
Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Modern Tool and Die Company (MTD) |
Seat | Ludwigsburg , Stuttgart - Feuerbach , Plochingen and Bübingen , Germany |
Branch | Motor vehicle manufacturers , machine manufacturers |
Gutbrod was a motorcycle , automobile and machine manufacturer in Plochingen am Neckar and Bübingen an der Saar.
history
Wilhelm Gutbrod (1890-1948) founded in 1926 in Ludwigsburg , the standard vehicle factory GmbH and initially produced motorcycles and later cars and tricycles and four-wheel vans. The company moved to Stuttgart-Feuerbach in 1933 and to Plochingen am Neckar in 1937 . The motorcycles achieved numerous national and international successes in races and long-distance rides. The company's first automobile of the Standard Superior 500 type was marketed as the first Volkswagen before the later VW. The delivery vans were particularly successful because of their robustness.
In World War II the production came to a complete standstill. In 1946 the plant in Plochingen was partially dismantled. From 1949, however, there was production again, including several variants of the Superior small car . Among them was one of the first series vehicles in the world with gasoline direct injection in 1952 , the Gutbrod Superior 700E . In 1953, the insolvency led to a partial sale of the company. Auto production ended in 1954 and the Plochingen plant was closed in 1957. In Bübingen machines for agriculture, horticulture and municipal tasks continued to be manufactured.
Until it was taken over by Modern Tool and Die Company (MTD) in 1996, Gutbrod mainly manufactured motor-driven lawnmowers and small tractors. The factory in Bübingen became the headquarters and European headquarters of MTD Products AG in 1996.
Today hand and ride-on mowers, scarifiers and tillers are offered under the Gutbrod name.
Saarbrücken plant (Bübingen)
The Saarbrücken plant offers two examples of the company's ingenuity. On the one hand, the first small tractor rolled off the production line here in 1962, and on the other hand, the world's first motorized snow plow rolled off the production line in 1983.
commercial vehicles
Before the war, Gutbrod built three- and four-wheel delivery vans as a “standard vehicle factory” first in Ludwigsburg , then in Feuerbach (Stuttgart) and later in Plochingen. From 1946 onwards, small commercial vehicles of the Gutbrod Heck 504 type were built again, of which 3,810 flatbeds and delivery vans were produced up to 1950. In 1950 this vehicle was replaced by the Atlas 800 type , which was produced as a flatbed, box and delivery van, as well as a bus. A total of 10,906 commercial vehicles were built, but in spite of everything it was not possible to produce profitably and due to financial difficulties from 1952 commercial vehicle production had to be discontinued in early 1954. In the 1970s, the new district office was built in Ludwigsburg on the former site of the factory.
Direct injection
The first cars with direct injection were the Gutbrod Superior and Goliath GP 700 models, which appeared in 1951. Both vehicles had a two-stroke gasoline engine of 700 cm³ and 26 hp (19 kW) developed since 1949 under the direction of Hans Scherenberg , which was equipped with a modified diesel injection system from Bosch was equipped. The vehicles had good performance and low fuel consumption, 30% less than the carburettor variants. Scherenberg later switched to Mercedes-Benz . This technology was then modified (as a four-stroke) used in the Mercedes-Benz W 198 (300 SL) sports car .
Models
Standard motorcycles
- AT 500 (1926-1929)
- AS 500 (1926-1928)
- AS 350 (1927-1929)
- BT 500 (1929-1931)
- BT 750 (1928-1930)
- BT 1000 (1930-1933)
- CT 350 (1930-1933)
- CS 500 (1930-1932)
- CT 500 (1930-1933)
- BT 600 (1931-1932)
- CT 600 (1931-1932)
- CS 350 (1931-1932)
- DS 200 "Kobold" (1931–1934)
- DR 500 (1931-1932)
- FS 200 "Witch" (1932)
- FT 350 (1932)
- Fire Spirit GZ 175 (1932–1933)
- Fire Spirit Block FB 200 (1933–1935)
- Feuergeist Luxus Block FB 200 (1935–1937)
- Rex Tours 350 (1933)
- Rex Sport 350 (1933-1936)
- Rex Sport 350 H 354 (1936-1940)
- Rex Record 350 (1933)
- Feuergeist Prima, Nixe, Mixe Luxus (1934–1936)
- Kobold Block J 200 (1934–1936)
- Kobold Block Special Area J 250 (1934–1935)
- Kobold Block Special Area J 350 (1935)
- Special terrain G 354 (1934)
- Rex Sport 500 (1934-1935)
- Long stroke L 500 (1934–1935)
- Roland 500 (1934)
- Touring LF 500 (1936)
- Tours T 353 (1936–1940)
- Record 200 (1937-1938)
- Sport 350 (1937-1938)
- Courier 500 (1937-1940)
- Feuergeist Luxus Block G 250 (1938–1939)
- Feuergeist Luxus Block T 250 (1939–1940)
Standard and Gutbrod cars
- Standard Superior 400/500 (1933–1934)
- Gutbrod Superior 600/700 (1949–1954)
Gutbrod delivery vans and tricycles
- Progress 200 tricycle (1933-1935)
- Mercury (1934–1937)
- Hermes (1935-1936)
- Standard P 203 / P 503 tricycle (1935–1939)
- Standard H 204 / H 504 (1936–1939)
- Standard HV 504 (1937–1939)
- E 1 tricycle (1939-1945)
- Heck 504 (1946-1949)
- Heck 604 (1949–1950)
- Gutbrod Atlas 800 (1949–1953)
- Gutbrod Atlas 800 / H (1953–1954)
- Gutbrod Atlas 1000 (1951–1954)
- Gutbrod Atlas 1000/3 (1953–1954)
- Gutbrod Atlas 700 (1953–1954)
Gutbrod tug
- Farmax (1949-1950)
- ND 15 (1949–1951)
- ND 25 (1950–1951)
- ND 36 (1950–1951)
- 1017
- 1030
- 1031 (1967)
- 1032
- 1040
- 1050
- 2016H
- 2060 (1970)
- 2350
- 2400
- 2450
- 2500
- 2600 (1977)
- 2850 (1982)
- 2900
- 4000
- 4200
- 4250
- 4300
- 4350
- 5020 (1995)
- 5025
Gutbrod lawn tractors
- Autoboy 803
- golf
- Spieder
- 808
- 1000
- 1005
- 1008
- 1010
- 1012
- 1030
- 1050
- 1200
- 1500D
- GLX 92
- GLX 105
- GLX 122
- JLX 76
- XLX 117 SAL
Gutbrod single axle
- BM 100
- MF 70
- MF 72
- Mf 8
- U 5
- U 6
- U 70
- U 72
- leprechaun
- puma
- Rex
- Terra
- Trabant
- Unica
- 410
- 550
- 650
- 750
- 900
- R 3
New registrations of Gutbrod cars in the German Reich from 1933 to 1938
year | Registration numbers |
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1933 | 196 |
1934 | 185 |
1935 | |
1936 | 6th |
1937 | 33 |
1938 | 36 |
In 1950 616 new cars from this manufacturer were registered in Germany. In 1951 the highest number was reached with 3230 pieces. In 1952 it fell to 1975 and the following year to 1252. In 1954 there were only 62 vehicles.
Related topics
- Dr. Josef Ganz - engineer at the standard vehicle factory
- The Nissan Figaro built in the 1990s had a certain stylistic similarity to the Gutbrod Superior from the 1950s.
literature
- Otfried Jaus, Peter Kaiser: In addition to the big players: craft and small-scale industrial vehicle construction in Württemberg. Kaiser, Stuttgart. Volume 1: Standard, Gutbrod (approx. 1994).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ MTD Products AG: MTD Europe: Our company. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ^ 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 .
- ^ 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 .