Neander motor vehicle

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Neander Motorfahrzeug GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1924
resolution 1954
Seat
management Ernst Neumann-Neander
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Neander P 1 from 1924
Neander track racing motorcycle from 1928
Neander P3 motorcycle from 1929

The Neander GmbH was a German company that motorcycles and automobiles produced.

Company history

Ernst Neumann-Neander founded the company in Euskirchen in 1924 . In 1926 the company moved to Düren - Rölsdorf . In 1939 production was interrupted due to the war and finally stopped in 1954 at the latest with the death of Ernst Neumann-Neander. A total of around 2100 motorcycles and around 20 to 25 automobiles were built.

vehicles

motorcycles

The first models, which appeared in 1924, were also designed for the Allright factory . Later models had built-in motors from Villiers and JAP . In addition, a lightweight motorcycle made of duralumin was created by the Düren metal works.

However, the P3 model with "Neander standard frame", which has been manufactured from pressed steel since 1926 and which could be equipped with built-in motors from 150 to 1000 cm³ from JAP, Villiers, MAG and Küchen, became famous . In 1928 the license for these frames was sold to Opel , which then manufactured the Opel Motoclub .

Driving machines

In the 1930s, the company was engaged in the development and construction of so-called driving machines, a mixture of motorcycle and automobile. Many races were contested with these driving machines. Curve indicators and vehicles for war invalids were also built later.

Neumann-Neander's three- and four-wheel "driving machines" are remarkable. In principle, it was about automobiles reduced to the bare essentials, which today would perhaps be characterized as roadsters . With the designs that it deliberately did not want to be called an automobile, the company pursued the goal of creating a simple and affordable “Volkswagen” - a goal that was not achieved; The reasons were the high price due to the individual craftsmanship and the sometimes complex, innovative processes as well as a lack of market interest in such a vehicle at a time when automobiles were still considered pure luxury goods.

  • Driving machine with 3 wheels. The single wheel is at the back.

  • Driving machine with 3 wheels. The single wheel is in front and the engine in front of it. Body is missing.

  • Driving machine with 4 wheels. The right half of the body has been removed.

  • Kit for a do-it-yourself Neander.

exhibition

In 2012 a special exhibition took place in the Technik-Museum Kassel . Four driving machines and eleven motorcycles from this manufacturer were exhibited there.

literature

  • Hermann Esswein: Ernst Neumann . Modern Illustrators Vol. 6. Piper, Munich 1905.
  • Franz Joseph Hall: Light sources from the mind. Frank Wedekind and Ernst Neumann-Neander . Pendragon, Bielefeld 1990. (Annual edition of Pendragon-Verlag for the friends of the publishing house at the turn of the year; 1990/91)
  • Reinhold Kraft u. a. (Ed.): Ernst Neumann-Neander 1871–1954 . [Exhibitions on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Ernst Neumann's death; The technical work: May 28 to October 3, 2004 in the German Bicycle Museum, Neckarsulm; The artistic work: September 4th to October 24th, 2004 in the Otto-Junker-Haus, Hürtgenwald-Simonskall; September 19 to November 7, 2004 in the Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren]. Hahne and Schloemer, Düren 2004, ISBN 3-927312-66-5 .
  • E. Neumann-Neander: Diary of Destruction. Düren in November and December 1944 . Pendragon, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-929096-09-9 .
  • Thomas Trapp: Ernst Neumann Neander and his motorcycles . Heel, Bonn (Königswinter) 1996, 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 3-89365-546-8 .
  • Thomas Trapp: Ernst Neumann Neander and his driving machines . Heel, Königswinter 2002, ISBN 3-89880-041-5 .
  • Rölsdorfer Geschichte (n), published on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Schützenbruderschaft Constantia 1877 eV, 2002, pp. 267–290.

Web links

Commons : Neander  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Trapp: Ernst Neumann Neander and his driving machines
  2. ↑ Website of the Technik-Museum Kassel (accessed on December 9, 2012)