North German automobile works

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Norddeutsche Automobilwerke GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1907
resolution 1930s
Seat Hameln , Germany
management Hans Hartmann
Number of employees 500 (1914)
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

The North German automotive GmbH, often abbreviated NAW, was a German automobile manufacturer based in Hameln .

history

In 1907, the company founder Hans Hartmann established the North German Automobile Works in an industrial area south of the Hameln train station . In 1908 the plant began production of the lower middle class Colibri passenger car . From 1911 the model was Sperber cause has been exported to many countries, including Russia, Baltic and Scandinavian countries, Austria, the UK and overseas to South Africa and New Zealand . In 1914 the company already had 500 employees and the annual production was around 800 vehicles.

During the First World War , production stagnated and only armaments such as trucks , but also grenades, were manufactured. In 1917 Walther von Selve took over the company and in 1919 set up the Selve Automobilwerke GmbH on its premises . However, the NAW stopped production in 1929 as a result of the Great Depression. At the beginning of the Nazi era , the plant was reactivated and continued as Deutsche Automobilwerke AG (DAWAG). The designer Robert Mederer designed a car with a new type of engine. The vehicle was supposed to cost 2300 Reichsmarks , which was too high for the Reich government. It awarded the major order for the design of a Volkswagen to the Reichsverband der Automobilindustrie (Reich Association of the Automobile Industry) , which commissioned Ferdinand Porsche to design the KdF car , which cost only 990 Reichsmarks . That put an end to the Hamelin automotive industry.

Car models

Type Construction period cylinder Displacement power Vmax
Colibri 3.5 hp 1908-1909 2 row 436 cc 5 HP (3.7 kW) 50 km / h
Colibri 8 hp 1909-1910 2 row 860 cc 8 HP (5.9 kW) 50 km / h
Colibri 6/15 hp 1911-1912 4 row 1592 cm³ 16 hp (11.8 kW) 60 km / h
Sparrowhawk E4 5/15 hp 1913-1919 4 row 1330 cc 17 hp (12.5 kW) 60 km / h
Sparrowhawk F4 6/20 HP 1913-1919 4 row 1545 cc 20 hp (14.7 kW) 70 km / h

Picture gallery

  • Colibri 1908

  • Sparrowhawk 1911

  • Sparrowhawk 1911

  • Sparrowhawk 1913

  • Sparrowhawk 1913

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Autostadt Hameln at http://www.hamelner-geschichte.de .

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