Motor factory magnet

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Magnet-Motoren AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1900 (as Motorenfabrik Magnet GmbH )
resolution 1926
Seat Berlin - Weissensee , Germany
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturers , engine manufacturers

emblem
Magnet motorcycle from 1906
Magnet self-drive

The engine factory Magnet GmbH , later magnet motors AG , was a German engines -, motorcycle - and car manufacturers .

Company history

The company was founded in 1900 in Berlin-Weißensee as Motorenfabrik Magnet GmbH . In 1912 the company was renamed Magnet-Motoren AG . Now the company was also based in Berlin-Halensee . Production ended in 1926. The focus of production was on the construction of boat engines.

vehicles

motorcycles

The production of motorcycles ran from 1901 to 1924.

A preserved copy is exhibited in the Transport Museum in Budapest .

Tricycles

Tricars , which were called motor-tricycles , were created based on motorcycles . The front wheel was exchanged for a front axle. Between the front wheels was a bench for one or two people. The construction time is given as 1906 to 1908.

In 1908 there was a tricycle called a magnet car with a single front wheel. A V2 engine with 498 cm³ displacement and 5 HP propelled the vehicles.

The self-propelled model was created from 1909 . This was basically a motorcycle, but without a handlebar, and next to it a body with a steering wheel.

Until 1924 there was a tricycle with the single wheel in the front. The V2 engine with either 750 cm³ or 830 cm³ displacement was mounted above the front wheel, similar to the Phenomobile . Another source gives the construction period from 1921 to 1926. Available were passenger cars and vans with box.

A self-propelled vehicle is exhibited in the Museum for Saxon Vehicles in Chemnitz .

Four-wheeled automobiles

From 1924 vehicles with four wheels appeared. This was initially the 4/14 hp model and from 1926 the 5/20 hp model .

literature

Web links

Commons : Motorenfabrik Magnet  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , pp. 218–220.