Ostner vehicle factory

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OD motorcycle
House Bürgerstraße 56 in Dresden, company location from April 1927
Ostner three-wheel flatbed truck from 1932 in the Heiner Beckmann motorcycle museum
Ostner Rex from 1936

The Ostner vehicle factory of Willy Ostner built from 1921 to 1955 motorcycles and light vans.

Foundation and motorcycle construction

Willy Ostner founded a vehicle factory in Dresden in 1921 . He manufactured motorcycles from 1925 or 1927. The OD motorcycles were created and were built until 1936.

Commercial vehicle construction

In 1932, Willy Ostner began producing the OD delivery tricycles . These were sold so well that Ostner was able to take over the former elite diamond works in Brand-Erbisdorf in 1935 . The three-wheeled delivery vans with 200 and 400 cc engines could be manufactured there. Four-wheel delivery vans with a 600 cc two-stroke engine were also built, followed by a 1.1-liter Ford Eifel engine . From 1945 Willy Ostner settled in Sulzbach-Rosenberg ( Upper Palatinate ) and in 1948 began to build sidecars for agriculture. From 1950 a modernized four-wheel delivery van was built as the Rex 4 type, which was later also available with a diesel engine. The express freighters Rex 15 and 18 followed from 1955.

takeover

On May 1, 1955, the Ostner vehicle factory was taken over by the Faun -Werke. Production of the Ostner express freighters continued until 1958. A total of 1,672 commercial vehicles of the Ostner delivery vans were built between 1950 and 1958. The delivery vans further developed by Faun were now built under the name: Faun F 24 express freighters until 1970. After that, the plant was used as a repair shop for the Faun dump truck until 1989 and then for the repair of vehicles of the German armed forces .

The factories in Sulzbach-Rosenberg ( Upper Palatinate ) were demolished in the early 1990s. Today there is a Kaufland chain supermarket on the site .

literature

  • Werner Oswald: German trucks and delivery vehicles 1945–1969. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-613-01197-2 , p. 483.

Web links

Commons : Ostner Fahrzeugfabrik  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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. 191 .