Karl Mayr automotive engineering

Karl Mayr automotive engineering
legal form
founding	1921
resolution	1923 or 1924
Seat	Munich , Germany
management	Karl Mayr
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Karl Mayr Motorenbau was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Karl Mayr founded the company in 1921 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Mayrette . Production ended in 1923 or 1924. In total, a few dozen vehicles were built.

Mayr was also involved in the Maja factory from 1923 to 1924 and manufactured three-wheeled commercial vehicles in his company Mayr-Dreiräder - Kleinfahrzeugbau Mayr between 1925 and 1934 .

vehicles

The company manufactured small cars. The cars offered one or two seats. The first model was developed by a two-cylinder engine of BMW with 500 cc displacement driven. The second model was a tricycle. A built-in engine from JAP with a displacement of 200 cm³ was used to drive the individual rear wheel.

On September 19, 1932, Mayr drove one of his three-wheelers up the Katschberg . The JAP engine with a displacement of 200 cm³ is referred to here as a four-stroke engine .

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 450.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ Oswald: German Cars 1920–1945.
4. ^ ^{A b} Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss : The German automobile industry. Documentation from 1886 until today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 248 .