Hille works
Hille-Werke AG | |
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1884 |
resolution | 1962 |
Seat | Dresden , Germany |
management | Moritz Hille |
Branch | Mechanical engineering , automobile manufacturer |
Hille-Werke AG was a German manufacturer of engines , automobiles and commercial vehicles . Machine tools were manufactured from the 1930s to 1945.
Company history
1884 in Dresden , the company Moritz Hille gas engine and machine factory and Dresdner Gasmotorenfabrik Moritz Hille founded. In 1892 the name was changed to Dresdner Gasmotoren-Fabrik vorm. Moritz Hille and the transformation into a stock corporation . In 1898 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Hille . Passenger car production ended in 1900, but commercial vehicles were later built . Another name change took place on April 24, 1918 in Hille-Werke AG . Commercial vehicle production ended in 1926.
In 1929 the company moved to the Dresden-Reick industrial estate at Otto-Mohr-Straße 15
After the end of the Second World War , the company became public property and was called VEB Hille-Werke Dresden in the VVB Machine Tools and Tools (WMW). The company closed in 1962. At the same place (Otto-Mohr-Straße 15 - postal address: Reicker Straße 103a), in Dresden-Reick there was still a production of "precision engineering", later the company VEB SME (special machines electrical engineering) was located here. This was transferred to a part of VEB Elektromat and "special technological equipment" was manufactured for the production of microelectronic components. (see also VEB ZFTM and VEB ZMD)
vehicles
Automobiles
The vehicles produced from 1898 to 1900 were three-wheelers . They were similar to the De Dion Bouton motor tricycles . A single-cylinder engine with 1.25 hp provided the drive .
Hille presented such a motor tricycle at the motor vehicle exhibition, which took place in Düsseldorf from September 17 to 24, 1898 . The engine developed approximately 2 hp. The vehicle weighed 80 kg. The maximum speed was given as 40 km / h.
One vehicle successfully took part in the long-distance journey from Berlin to Leipzig and back in 1898 .
commercial vehicles
The commercial vehicles produced from 1911 onwards were based on plans by Joseph Vollmer . The payload was 2.5 to 3.5 tons . The monoblock engine with OHC valve control developed 45 hp.
After the First World War , trucks were again manufactured between 1924 and 1926 . The K 3 model was designed for a payload of 3 tons. Its four-cylinder engine developed 45 hp. The L 5 with a payload of 4.5 tons had a two-block engine. The vehicles were bodied as delivery vans , tankers , explosives , dump trucks , furniture transporters and for transporting logs.
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hille.
- Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 , p. 69.
Web links
- Main State Archive Dresden (accessed October 18, 2012)
- www.Albert-Gieseler.de (accessed on October 18, 2012)
- Video of a stationary Hille gas engine on YouTube
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Hille-Werke in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hille.
- ↑ a b www.Albert-Gieseler.de (accessed on October 18, 2012)
- ↑ a b c Main State Archive Dresden ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 18, 2012)
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Kubisch: German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 , p. 69.
- ^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, pp. 19-20.
- ↑ Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 188.