Excelsior motor vehicle factory

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Excelsior motor vehicle factory
legal form Corporation
founding 1904
resolution 1907
Seat Zurich , Switzerland
management Rudolf Egg
Branch Automobile manufacturing

Excelsior from 1904 or 1905 in the Dresden Transport Museum

Motorwagenfabrik Excelsior was a Swiss automobile manufacturer.

Company history

The Excelsior motor vehicle factory was founded in 1904 by the automobile designer Rudolf Egg, the previous co-owner of Egg & Egli . The company, based in Zurich, produced automobiles in a plant in Wollishofen on Lake Zurich until 1907 .

vehicles

The first model was a license build of the Oldsmobile Curved Dash . It was equipped with a single cylinder engine with 6 hp . It was presented at the first Geneva Motor Show in 1905 . Two sources believe that vehicles were manufactured as early as 1904.

In 1906 it was replaced by a four-cylinder model with a built - in engine from Fafnir .

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Dresden Transport Museum . It is dated to 1905 in a source.

Web links

Commons : Excelsior Vehicles  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6 , pp. 56–61.
  2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Excelsior (II).
  3. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).