Small car factory Fritz Hückel

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Small car factory Fritz Hückel
legal form
founding 1921
resolution 1936
Seat Schönau bei Neutitschein , Czechoslovakia
management Fritz Hückel
Branch Automobiles

Kleinautowerke Fritz Hückel was a Czechoslovak company from Schönau near Neutitschein that manufactured automobiles , among other things .

prehistory

Fritz Hückel (1885–1973), a son of the manufacturer August Hückel (1838–1917), was a hat maker , amateur racing driver, founding member of the Moravian-Silesian Automobile Club and was a co-owner of the J. Hückel's Sons company in Neutitschein . Otto Kloss was a locksmith . In 1906 they produced a vehicle with the brand name Hückel for the first time . The vehicle with an air-cooled four-cylinder engine was similar to the Laurin & Klement A and remained a one-off. Between 1913 and 1914 Fritz Hückel was head of Austro-Cyclecar .

In 1945 the factories of J. Hückel's sons were expropriated and Fritz Hückel had to leave Czechoslovakia as a Sudeten German . He tried to found a new hat factory in Dingolfing and Weilheim (Upper Bavaria). Fritz Hückel died on January 12, 1973 in Munich.

Company history

Fritz Hückel founded the company in 1921 or 1922 and began small-batch production. The brand name was initially Gnom and later Hückel . Production ended in 1935 or 1936.

vehicles

Gnome from 1921

This small car resembled a model from the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft . Later the model approached the Opel 4 HP . At the time, parts of the Opel 4/20 PS were also used. One or two vehicles were built per year.

Hückel from 1935

In 1935 the Hückel Special was presented. A six-cylinder engine of Tatra drove the vehicle. It remained a one-off.

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)
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů. České a slovenské osobní automobily od roku 1815 do současnosti. Computer Press, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-251-1587-9 . (Czech)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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 d e f Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ a b c Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů.