Metal goods factory Lessner

Machine and boiler factory G. A. Lessner Metallwarenfabrik Lessner & Co.
legal form
founding	1852
resolution	?
Seat	St. Petersburg
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The metal goods factory Lessner & Co. , previously machine and boiler factory GA Lessner ( Russian Лесснер ), was a Russian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company was founded in Saint Petersburg in 1852 by a German immigrant . In 1904 or 1905 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Lessner . The design engineer was Boris Loutzky, who previously headed the Society for Automobile Construction System Loutzky in Berlin . Production ended in 1909 or 1910. A total of around 70 to 100 vehicles were built. It is not known when the company was dissolved.

vehicles

In 1905 13 vehicles of one model with a four-cylinder engine , 1528 cm³ displacement and 6 or 8 hp were built for the main post office in Saint Petersburg. There was also a smaller model with a two-cylinder engine and 12 hp. There were also two four-cylinder models with either 22 hp or 4559 cc and 32 hp. In 1907 a model with a six-cylinder engine with 90 hp was added to the range. The body manufacturers Iwan Breitigham from Saint Petersburg and the Krylow brothers from Moscow made the bodies. In addition to passenger cars, there were also commercial vehicles with a payload of either 1.25 or 2 tons .

Pyotr Arkadievich Stolypin owned a vehicle from this manufacturer.

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 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
• Maurice A. Kelly: Russian Motor Vehicles. The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917. Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2009, ISBN 978-1-84584-213-0 . (English)

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring (accessed on January 1, 2013)

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 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Kelly: Russian Motor Vehicles. The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917.