Hispano-Argentina

Hispano-Argentina Fábrica de Automóviles SA (HAFDASA)
legal form	SA
founding	1925
resolution	1961
Seat	Buenos Aires , Argentina
management	Carlos Ballester-Molina
Branch	Engines , commercial vehicles , automobiles , weapons

Diesel engine: Criollo engine

Hispano-Argentina Criollo truck

Hispano-Argentina Fábrica de Automóviles SA (HAFDASA) was an Argentinian company in the automotive sector .

Company history

Carlos Ballester founded the company in Buenos Aires in 1925 . He started with the import of automobiles from Hispano-Suiza . He also made weapons from the 1930s . His son Carlos Ballester-Molina developed a diesel engine called Motor Criollo in 1934 , which was successfully offered. In 1937 the production of commercial vehicles followed and in 1938 or 1940 that of passenger cars . The brand name was Hispano-Argentina . After the end of the Second World War , vehicle production was discontinued. According to a source, the company was dissolved in 1961.

Products

Trucks and diesel engines

The diesel engines were available as four- and six-cylinder engines . Depending on the version, they developed 75 hp , 95 hp or 150 hp. Several hundred of these were made.

The company's trucks and buses also used these engines.

Passenger cars

The manufacturer's large cars were also available with their own diesel engines. Two different four-door sedans have survived . One was conventionally designed, while the other was aerodynamically shaped with small windows and no running boards . It stayed with these two prototypes .

There was also the small car PBT . It had a two-cylinder engine . One source mentions a two-stroke engine with 550 cm³ displacement , another a four-stroke engine with 70 mm bore , 70 mm stroke , 539 cm³ displacement and 22 hp. This model was produced either from 1938 to 1939 or during World War II. Of these, around 20 to 32 vehicles were built.

Hispano-Argentina as a four-door sedan
Hispano-Argentina as a four-door sedan with an aerodynamic structure
Hispano-Argentina PBT

weapons

The Ballester-Molina pistol and the Hafdasa C-4 submachine gun are known .

Ballester – Molina self-loading pistol
Hafdasa C-4 submachine gun

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hispano-Argentina and Motor Criollo.
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 695. (English)

Web links

Commons : Hispano-Argentina - Collection of images, videos and audio files

d'Auto (Dutch, accessed August 27, 2016)
Allcarindex (accessed August 27, 2016)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Coche Argentino ( Memento from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish, accessed on August 27, 2016)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hispano-Argentina and Motor Criollo.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 695. (English)

[Coche-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Coche Argentino ( Memento from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish, accessed on August 27, 2016)

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-2] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hispano-Argentina and Motor Criollo.

[Beaulieu-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 695. (English)