Kaiser vehicle construction

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Kaiser vehicle construction
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Seat Warnemünde , Oschersleben , Lehnin , Germany
management Theodor Kaiser
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Kaiser's streamlined car, last existing copy in the Central German Model Railway and Toy Museum in Quedlinburg (restored)

Kaiser Fahrzeugbau was an automobile manufacturer in Saxony-Anhalt . The company was founded by the aircraft engineer Theodor Kaiser and manufactured three-wheeled passenger cars in Oschersleben in the 1930s . After armaments had to be produced from 1939 , vehicle construction was given up.

history

Theodor Kaiser (1906 to 1950) built his first prototype in Warnemünde in 1931 with a tandem seat and wired wheels. The rear wheel was driven by a 200 cm³ motorcycle transmission.

The second prototype was built in Oschersleben as early as 1932, where Kaiser was subtenant of the factory premises of C. Schmidt, body and vehicle construction, in Moltkestr. 7–9 (today Hermann-Krebs-Str.). The seats of this type were placed side by side and the front wheels were fitted with motorcycle fenders.

This was followed by a closed tandem seat with interlocked wheels, with front lights in the casing. In 1934/35 the series began with both seats next to each other. Various single-cylinder engines from Columbus , DKW , JAP and NSU were installed in the rear above the rear wheel until Kaiser stayed with the DKW engines.

The bodies were made from wood and a synthetic leather cover. The front looked like a small zeppelin . Optionally, you could order motorcycle fenders with free-standing lamps or these integrated in the casing. Both variants illuminated the curves. In 1936/37 the type G came out with a sheet metal body, where only the front was slightly flattened. The Kaiser company did not appear in the adjusted Schell Plan . Theodor Kaiser talking to car repairs to water and built in Lehnin his last car, this time a four-wheeler and two Ford Eifel - four-cylinder engines for separate connection and disconnection. In 1939 about 130 km / h were reached on the autobahn.

Another source mentions the following engines: single-cylinder two-stroke engine with 198 cm³ displacement and 6.5 hp as well as with 298 cm³ and 9 hp from DKW, two-cylinder two- stroke engine with 598 cm³ and 20 hp from DKW, single-cylinder four-stroke engine with 490 cm³ and 18 PS from JAP as well as various single-cylinder four-stroke engines from NSU with 198, 248, 348 and 498 cm³ displacement.

The vehicles had a wheelbase of 250 cm , a track width of 160 cm and weighed between 265 and 285 kg, depending on the engine.

A tricycle from 1935 survived.

literature

Web links

Commons : Kaiser Fahrzeugbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , pp. 194–196.