Car body works Otto Kühn

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Car body works Otto Kühn
legal form
resolution 1945
Reason for dissolution Expropriation after the Second World War and integration into the automotive industry association
Seat Halle , Germany
Branch Car body manufacturer , automobile manufacturer

Opel Super 6 with roadster body from Kühn

The body works Otto Kühn were a German wheelwright that was based in Halle (Saale) .

history

In the 1920s, the company was the main supplier of special bodies for Adam Opel AG . The bodies of all kinds that Opel did not manufacture itself were produced in small series, for example station wagons , cabs and convertibles . According to another source were in 1927 sedans based on the Opel 4/16 PS 1928 also two- and four-seat convertibles, station wagons, carriages, manufactured, ambulances and small buses with engines from 1,100 to 2,000 cc engine capacity .

In 1928 and 1929 the Opel 8/40 HP was even offered with some changes to the chassis and the radiator as a separate make Kühn 8/40 HP . The vehicle had a six-cylinder engine .

In 1931 the company ran into financial difficulties, which could be resolved through restructuring. 1945 was expropriated and then went to the IFA - Karosseriewerke hall on.

literature

  • Werner Oswald: German Cars 1920–1945 . 10th edition. Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 .

Web links

Commons : Karosseriewerke Otto Kühn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 149-150 .