Leifa

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Leifa Automobil GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1924
resolution 1925
Seat Berlin-Charlottenburg , German Empire
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Leifa Automobil GmbH was a German company in the field of automobiles .

Brand history

The company was based at Tegeler Weg 104 in Berlin-Charlottenburg . It sold passenger cars that were manufactured in cooperation with Metallwerke Borsdorf . The brand name was Leifa . Production ran from 1924 to 1925. Sales remained low.

There is no known connection to Fama Fahrzeug & Motoren from Kiel - Friedrichsort , which at the same time offered small motorbikes with 148 cm³ displacement under the same brand name.

vehicles

The only model had a two-cylinder , two-stroke, crude oil engine from Albrecht . He made 18 HP from 1500 cc displacement . Petrol was required to start the engine . The fuel was oil .

One source states that the vehicle was not mature and therefore was relatively unsuccessful.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Leifa.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 , p. 80.
  3. ^ A b c George Ralph Doyle, George Nick Georgano: The World's Automobiles 1862–1962. A record of 100 years of car building. Temple Press Books, London 1963, p. 106 (English).
  4. ^ A b c David Burgess Wise: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles . Greenwich Editions, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-86288-258-7 , pp. 175 (English).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Werner Oswald: German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , page 449.
  6. ↑ a b Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 175 (English).