Horch 10-12 hp

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Horch 10/12 PS Tonneau in the Audi museum mobile

The Horch 10/12 PS was a 1902 imagined automobile with two-cylinder - petrol engine of A. Horch & Cie .

history

The Horch 10/12 PS was the second design of August Horch after yet in Cologne-Ehrenfeld built Horch 04/05 hp . By 1904, 18  Horch 10/12 PS had left his new factory in Reichenbach in Vogtland . The vehicle manufacturer Ludwig Kathe & Sohn from Halle (Saale) built five different body designs.

The probably last surviving car, a tonneau , belongs to the Deutsches Museum and is on display in the Audi museum mobile in Ingolstadt .

Technical specifications

Engine designation 10-12 hp
Type Two cylinders - gasoline engine , front mounted
Drive type Rear wheel drive
Displacement 2500 cc
Max. power 8.8 kW (12 PS)
Top speed 50 km / h

literature

  • Werner Oswald: All Horch automobiles 1900–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-87943-622-3 .
  • Peter Kirchberg, Jürgen Pönisch: Horch. Types - technology - models. 2nd revised edition. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-7688-1775-2 , pp. 52-53.

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