Omnimobile
The Omnimobil was a passenger car from the Fafnir works in Aachen , which was only available as a kit . The construction period was from 1904 to 1910.
description
Fafnir manufactured these kits and sold them to other entrepreneurs, who put them together, added additional parts and offered the finished vehicles under their own brand names. Customers included the Cito-Fahrradwerke , Richard Dreyhaupt , Hartmann , the Westfälische Automobilgesellschaft Bernhard Feldmann & Co. , the bicycle factory V. Chr. Schilling , the Steudel-Werke and the Superior Bicycle and Mechanical Engineering Industry .
The kit only included technical things. Initially, only the engine , gearbox and drive were included. From around 1906 the chassis , steering and axles were added. Initially, only a two-cylinder engine with 6 hp was available. According to a source, it had a displacement of 704 cc . From 1906 a four-cylinder engine with 16 hp was also available. The customers had to make a number of parts such as the body , the tires , the fuel tank , the interior , the lighting and - very important at the time - the horn themselves or obtain them from other sources.
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
Web links
- GTÜ Society for Technical Supervision (with partially incorrect information) ( Memento from September 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss : The German automobile industry. Documentation from 1886 until today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 20 .