Heinkel-I

Heinkel-I from Irish production

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Heinkel-I was an Irish car brand.

Company history

Lincoln & Nolan of Dublin assembled vehicles from the Austin Motor Company . In 1958 the license rights and the production facilities for the Heinkel cabin were taken over by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke . The new company Dundalk Engineering Works Limited was founded in Dundalk and production started. The brand name was Heinkel-I . The company was also responsible for supplying spare parts to all Heinkel cabins. Production ran until the end of 1960. In August 1961, Trojan Limited took over production.

vehicles

→ Main article : Heinkel cabin

The only model was the Heinkel cabin. This was a microcar in coupe form with a front door. A convertible presented in 1959 remained a one-off. The vehicles from Irish production were of poor quality than the earlier and later models from German or English production.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
• Walter Drawer: Small Cars International. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01959-6 .

Web links

Commons : Heinkel-I  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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 .
2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
3. ^ ^{A b c} Walter drafter: Small car international. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01959-6 .