Mayer (automobile manufacturer)

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Mayer
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Seat Berlin , Germany
management Hugo Mayer
Branch Carriage manufacturer , automobile manufacturer

Hugo Mayer was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The businessman Hugo Mayer was the Berlin general agent for bicycles for the American manufacturer Cleveland. He also sold carriages and ran a training course for cyclists and motorists. The location of his company of the same name was on Kurfürstendamm in Berlin . For house numbers there are the indications 42 to 45, 54 and 54 to 56.

In 1897 Mayer received a patent for a bicycle sled .

From 1899 to 1900 he worked as a motor vehicle manufacturer. The brand names were Einrad and Mayer .

In 1899 the company exhibited three vehicles at the International Motor Vehicle Exhibition in Berlin .

vehicles

Brand name unicycle

Mayer manufactured an avant train . The vehicle had one wheel. The engine came from Belvalette Frères and was mounted above the wheel. This Avant-Train could motorize non-motorized vehicles.

The advertisement read: The cheapest, easiest and most practical leader automobile.

Brand name Mayer

In addition to the Avant-Train, Mayer also offered complete, three-wheeled vehicles with this drive unit. Some sources refer to the vehicle as a voiturette . The vehicles were available as open two-seaters and delivery vans.

One source speaks of two motors that either separately or together provided the drive.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Unicycle and Mayer (I).
  • Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 , p. 47.
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 982 (English).
  • George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 , p. 409. (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 420. (French)
  • 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. 115. (English)
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 191. (English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Unicycle and Mayer (I).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ulrich Kubisch: German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 , p. 47.
  3. ↑ a b c d e George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 982 (English).
  4. ↑ a b c d e George Nick Georgano: The New Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 3. Edition. Dutton Verlag, New York 1982, ISBN 0-525-93254-2 , p. 409. (English)
  5. ↑ a b c d e George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975, p. 420. (French)
  6. ^ A b c d 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. 115. (English)
  7. ↑ a b c Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X , p. 191. (English)
  8. ↑ a b Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 228.
  9. ↑ a b bicycle sledge (accessed on May 3, 2015)
  10. ^ A b The international motor vehicle exhibition in Berlin 1899. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 314, 1899, pp. 180-183.