Otto works

Otto-Werke GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1918
resolution	1932
Seat	Munich , Germany
management	Gustav Otto
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

The Otto-Werke GmbH was a German motorcycle - and car manufacturers , who from 1918 to 1932 in Munich was established.

history

Gustav Otto , a German aircraft manufacturer and son of Nicolaus August Otto , founded the company.

Motorcycle construction

From 1921 a bicycle auxiliary engine, a four-stroke engine with 1 HP (0.74 kW) power, was built. In 1924, motorcycles were added under the name Flottweg . From 1928 to 1930 these motorcycles were also offered under the name Otto .

Automobile manufacturing

The 27/85 hp model was built there from 1923 to 1924 . The engine had a displacement of 6.75 l and developed 85 hp (62.5 kW). One source calls a four-cylinder engine , others a six-cylinder engine .

Only a few copies of Otto were made.

literature

• Erwin Tragatsch : Motorcycles - Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, 1894–1976 . 6th edition. Motorbuch Verlag. Stuttgart (1985). ISBN 3-87943-213-9 . Page 263
• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945 . 10th edition. Motorbuch Verlag. Stuttgart (1996). ISBN 3-87943-519-7 . Page 453

Individual evidence

1. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1160 (English).
2. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Otto (III).
3. ↑ GTÜ (accessed on December 1, 2018)