Kersting model workshops
Kersting model workshops | |
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legal form | |
founding | 1949 |
resolution | 1950s |
Seat | Waging am See , Germany |
management | Walter Maria Kersting |
Branch | Industrial design , automobile manufacturer |
The Kersting model workshops were a German automobile manufacturer in Waging am See . The company was founded by the architect and designer Walter Maria Kersting and his sons Arno , Gerwald and Rainer in 1949. Initially, the company dealt with industrial design .
In 1950 the Kleine Kersting was launched, a miniature car with a plywood body, without doors and with a removable hard top . He was a DKW - two-stroke engine driven through a three-speed transmission. Walter Maria Kersting had already designed the construction in the 1920s.
A sales price of DM 2500 was planned, but there was no interested party for series production. In 1953, the project was abandoned after more powerful engines had been tested that resulted in the abandonment of the original rubber band suspension.
literature
- Walter Drawer: Small Cars International. Motorbuch, Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 978-3613019591 . (First edition: Bleicher, Gerlingen 1990. ISBN 978-3883501604 .) - There several photos.
- Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1
Web links
- Kersting at the GTÜ classic car service
- Newsreel "Welt im Film" No. 285/1950 from November 20, 1950 Allegedly a Kersting miniature car can be seen in this newsreel from 5:03 min.