Klingenberg (car brand)

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Klingenberg
owner General Automobile Society Berlin
Introductory year 1898
Products Automobiles
Klingenberg NAG car from 1900

The Klingenberg was a small car that was built between 1898 and 1900 by the Allgemeine Automobil-Gesellschaft in Berlin . It was based on the design by Georg Klingenberg , professor at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg .

The two to three-seater car had a tubular steel frame and four wheels with pneumatic tires. The single - cylinder four-stroke engine was installed together with two flywheels, clutches, a two-stage gearbox and the differential in a common aluminum housing on the underbody of the vehicle. Of the entire drive, only the magneto and the water pump were mounted outside the housing. A shaft on which the crank handle for the engine was placed ran concentrically in the rear axle. In this way, the friction losses in the drive were minimized. A similar construction of the engine and transmission in a common housing was not found again until decades later in motorcycle construction.

The car was operated with a single "drive lever" located on the steering column. When starting, the lever was pulled all the way back and down. If you pushed it forward a little, the brakes were released, the clutches closed and the car started. If the vehicle was pushed further forward, the driving speed increased by increasing the pre-ignition. If you pulled the lever up, the second gear was engaged. To brake, the lever had to be pulled back all the way. A similar control lever can be found today on electric trams or locomotives .

The Klingenberg car reached speeds of up to 50 km / h, depending on the gear ratio. A successor was built by NAG from 1901 as NAG-Klingenberg .

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