Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft

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Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft

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founding 1850 (as the Ignaz Schustala & Comp. Carriage factory )
resolution 1923
Reason for dissolution Merger with Ringhoffer AG to form Ringhoffer-Tatra AG
Seat Kopřivnice , Czechoslovakia
management
  • Adolf Raschka the Elder Ä.
Number of employees 5,650 (1914)
Branch Wheelwright , automobile manufacturer , rail vehicle manufacturer

Memorial plaque for Ignác Šustala

The Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft (1850-1923) was a wheelwright in Nesselsdorf (Kopřivnice) in Czechoslovakia . Carriages were initially manufactured there, later also railroad cars and automobiles. The successor Tatra has been producing there since 1923 .

history

The company was founded in 1850 by Ignaz Schustala d. Ä. (Czech Ignác Šustala) (1822-1891) and Adolf Raschka the Elder . Ä. as Ignaz Schustala & Comp. Initially, wagons and carriages were produced, e.g. B. Neutitscheinka named after the next district town Neutitschein .

The Schustala company was granted an imperial and royal privilege . As early as 1856, the company had sales outlets in Lemberg , Ratibor , Wroclaw , Vienna , Prague , Berlin , Chernivtsi and Kiev . Railway wagons have also been made since 1882 . In the meantime Ignaz's son Adolf Schustala had taken over the plant management. In 1890, the railway engineer Hugo Fischer von Röslerstamm came to the company as head of wagon construction and the company was converted into a stock company called Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft ( initial capital : 2 million crowns). Ignaz Schustala died in 1891 and four years later Adolf Schustala also left the company and, like his brothers Ignaz jun. and Josef, his shareholding.

When the brand's first automobile came onto the market in 1897/1898 , none of the founding family was still involved in the company. This vehicle, the “Nesselsdorfer President”, was modeled on the first Benz motor car and had a body that was based on the Nesselsdorf “Mylord” carriage. Apart from Siegfried Marcus' car  - a prototype from 1888 (or later) - it was the first automobile in Austria-Hungary . In addition to the engineers Edmund Rumpler and Karl Sage and the chief master Leopold Sviták, Hans Ledwinka was also involved in its construction. On the "Collectivausstellung Austrian automobile manufacturer" - as part of the Kaiser Franz Joseph - Jubilee Exhibition of 1898 - was the president together with the Egger-Lohner electric car, the 6 HP Lohner car and give the Marcus-car, which one time already as a historical vehicle viewed, presented to a broad public. After the exhibition ended, the vehicle stayed in Vienna and served the ÖAC as a driving school vehicle . It has been in the National Technical Museum in Prague since 1919 .

The first truck followed in 1898 . Shortly before the First World War there were 5,300 workers and 350 salaried employees in the Nesselsdorf company. The changed political situation in Czechoslovakia , which emerged in 1918, made the railway business of Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau AG difficult, which was now called "Kopřivnická vozovka as". In 1923, the company merged with the competitor Ringhoffer AG in Prague-Smíchov under Hans Ringhoffer . The new company was called " Ringhoffer-Tatra AG " after the Slovak High Tatras . After several interludes at other automobile factories in Nesselsdorf, Hans Ledwinka worked as chief designer and designed the first car for the factory, which, in contrast to the central administration in Prague, was now called the " Tatra Works ".

Models

Timeline

Timeline of the Tatra and Nesselsdorf models (1897–1952)
Type Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft Tatra as
1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 0 1 2
Small car 11 12
57 / 57A / 57B
Middle class T 20th 30th 54 97 107 600
D. S4 30/52 52
C. L. 75
Upper class president A. B. E. F. J30 S6 U 10 17th 31 70 / 70A 87
J40 77 / 77A
80
Off-road vehicle 57 K
V 750 V 799 V 809
82/92/93
Vans 49
26/30 / 26/52 72
13
43
truck K 25th 114 / 115
M. TL2 23 27 / 28 128
R. TL4 24 22nd 85
81 111 ...
omnibus O SO TO 86 400 ...
  • Model by Nesselsdorf
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    Car models

    Nesselsdorf President (1897)
    Type Construction period
    president 1897
    President II 1899
    Type A foursome 1900
    Type A Quad II 1900
    Type racing car 1900
    Electromobile type 1900
    Type A model 1901 1900-1901
    Type new foursome 1901-1902
    Type two 1901-1902
    Type B 1902-1904
    Type c 1902-1905
    Type D 1902-1905
    Type E 1904-1906
    Type F 1906
    Type J 30 1906
    Type L 1906-1911
    Type S 4 16/20 PS 1906-1911
    Type J 40 1907-1908, 1910-1911
    Type S 4 20/30 PS 1910-1916
    Type S 6 40/50 PS 1910-1914
    Type T 1914-1925
    Type U 1914-1925

    Truck models and buses

    Nesselsdorf L
    Type Construction period
    first truck prototype 1898
    second truck prototype 1909
    Type k 1909-1911
    Type M 1909-1911
    Type R 1908
    Type O 1907-1909
    Type SO 1910-1914
    Type TO 1920-1928
    Type T14 / 40 prototype 1914
    Type TL2 1915-1924
    Type TL4 1916-1924

    Rail vehicles

    In addition to road vehicles, the company also manufactured rail and tram cars. For example 162 Viennese steam light rail cars around 1900 , later vehicles for the Vienna tram .

    See also

    literature

    • Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Tatra - The history of the Tatra automobiles . Publishing house of the International Auto and Motorcycle Museum Germany, Bad Oeynhausen (1977)
    • Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Hans Ledwinka: His Cars - His Life . Weishaupt, Graz (1997)
    • Ivan Margolius & John G Henry: Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka . Veloce, Dorchester (2015)
    • Hans Seper: The kk priv. Wagenfabrik Ignaz Schustala & Co. - Your career path to the automobile factory. 65 years of the first Nesselsdorf automobile . In: Blätter für Technikgeschichte 23rd issue. Vienna 1961
    • Jiří Tichánek: Kočáry Schustala - Kopřivnice (Carriages Schustala - Nesselsdorf). Butterfly, Opava 2000, ISBN 80-238-5705-3 .

    Web links

    Commons : Nesselsdorf Wagenbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
    • tatraprehled.com Picture gallery of historic Nesseldorf & Tatra commercial vehicles

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ J. Mentschl:  Schustala, Ignaz d. Ä .. In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 382 f. (Direct links on p. 382 , p. 383 ).
    2. ↑ Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Hans Ledwinka: His cars - His life . H. Weishaupt Verlag, Graz 1997, ISBN 3-900310-56-4 , p. 14.
    3. ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , pp. 88-116.
    4. ↑ Description of tram types at vef.at , accessed on March 21, 2020