Josef Niesner, mechanical workshop

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Josef Niesner, mechanical workshop
legal form
founding 1900
resolution 1911
Seat Vienna , Austria-Hungary
management Josef Niesner
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Josef Niesner, Mechanische Werkstätte was a manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles from Austria-Hungary .

Company history

The engineer Josef Niesner founded a mechanical engineering company in Vienna in 1900 . The company's headquarters were at Schmalzhofgasse 10 in Vienna's 6th district. In the same year he manufactured automobiles. The brand name was Niesner . In 1905 it became the Josef Niesner company, mechanical workshop . From 1905 onwards, motorcycles were produced. Production ended in 1911. After the First World War , Niesner worked as a representative for Norton motorcycles and as a motorcycle racer.

vehicles

Automobiles

These were small cars. A two-cylinder engine provided the drive .

motorcycles

Built-in engines from Minerva Motors and the Fafnir works provided power for the motorcycles . These were one- and two-cylinder engines with 3, 3.5 and 5 hp .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. a b c Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.