Maja plant

Maja-Werk for Motor-Vierrad-Bau AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1923
resolution	1924
Seat	Munich , Germany
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Maja-Werk AG or Maja-Werk für Motor-Vierrad-Bau AG was a German automobile manufacturer.

Company history

On June 16, 1923, Karl Mayr, who had been running Karl Mayr motor vehicle manufacturing since 1921 , Walter Raben, the limited partnership Friedrich Raben Erben, the oHG Georg Kleinwort and Otto Windstosser founded the company. The location was Schönfeldstrasse 28 in Munich . The company's automobile production ended in 1924 after just one year.

vehicles

The only Motorbiene model was a cycle car . It was powered by a two - cylinder boxer engine from BMW . A 68 mm bore and 68 mm stroke resulted in a displacement of 494 cc . The transmission had three gears. In view of the track width of 105 cm, there was no differential on the rear axle. With a wheelbase of 250 cm, the vehicle length was 310 cm. The weight of the chassis was given as 180 kg.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 450.
• 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)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .