Northwest German vehicle construction
| Northwest German Vehicle Construction GmbH (NWF)
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1946 |
| resolution | November 18, 1955 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Mariensiel near Wilhelmshaven , Germany |
| Branch | Body shop , automobile manufacturer |
The Northwest German automotive GmbH - abbreviated NWF - was a body corporate , commercial vehicle manufacturers and car manufacturers based in Mariensiel at Wilhelmshaven , which in its short history, mainly due to the extraordinary Rail Road bus , also called short ski-Stra-Bus, a name has made.
history
NWF was founded in 1946 and initially focused on the production and repair of transport vehicles, trailers and railroad -Ersatzteilen. From 1948 onwards, buses were built on chassis from Ford , Borgward and Büssing . A year later, Krauss-Maffei took a stake in the company. According to plans of the aircraft designer Henrich Focke was designed jointly lightweight omnibus KML 90 with self-supporting grid design and rear-mounted engine in a streamlined shape , which was presented at the IAA 1,951th NWF marketed the light metal bus with Ford Hercules diesel engine as NWF FS (Ford Schnellbus), with Deutz diesel engine is as NWF BK 4 ( B us k lein with four-cylinder engine F4L 614), as BK 6 and BS (with six-cylinder engine F6L 614) . The NWF prototype from 1951 still had a 95 hp Ford gasoline engine with eight cylinders in a V shape.
In the same year, two prototypes of a bus as a two-way vehicle were built for the Deutsche Bundesbahn under the name Schi-Stra-Bus . These two-axle buses could drive normally on the road. By lifting the vehicle hydraulically and then putting down a bogie with railway wheelsets at the front and rear, it was also rail-compatible. The drive on the rails took place via the tires on the rear axle, while the steering of the front axle was locked. 50 pieces were ordered. However, since the concept did not prove itself in practice, only 15 of these road-rail vehicles were actually used. Probably the only remaining copy is kept in the Bochum-Dahlhausen Railway Museum.
The company also worked as a body manufacturer. Above all, chassis for omnibuses, especially trolleybuses (also double-decker for the HHA ), were body, but also the bodies of the battery-electric parcel post van for the Deutsche Bundespost from Lloyd and the machine factory Esslingen .
In addition, the Fuldamobil was produced under license between March 1954 and August 1955 and sold as the Fuldamobil NWF 200 , for which an assembly plant was built in Lohne . 701 copies were made.
The NWF and Krauss-Maffei agreed to end the cooperation on January 1, 1955. On November 18, 1955, the NWF had to file for bankruptcy.
Production facilities
The production facilities of the north-west German vehicle construction were in the south-western part of the former naval artillery arsenal Mariensiel near Wilhelmshaven. The area between Planckstrasse and Bunsenstrasse is called "Industriegebiet West".
literature
- Wolfgang Gebhardt: German omnibuses since 1895 , Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-613-01555-2 , pp. 473-475
- Wolfgang H. Gebhardt: Deutsche Reiseomnibusse , Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-613-03037-4 , p. 170
- Ulrich Kubisch: Omnibus , Elefantan-Press-Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88520-215-8 , p. 107/108
- Hanns Peter Rosellen: German small car. Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 1991, ISBN 3-89350-040-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bundestag.de - Application for the approval of the Bundestag to order a heritable building right on a property owned by the Reich in Mariensiel near Wilhelmshaven , accessed on March 23, 2016.
- ↑ kuestenmuseum.de - Station 12: Case workshop of the naval artillery depot ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 23, 2016.
Coordinates: 53 ° 30 ′ 33.6 " N , 8 ° 4 ′ 51.5" E