Paul Speidel
Paul Speidel | |
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legal form | |
founding | 1914 |
resolution | 1922 |
Seat | Geneva , Switzerland |
management | Paul Speidel |
Number of employees | 10 |
Branch | Motor vehicle manufacturer |
Paul Speidel was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles .
Company history
Paul Speidel founded the company that bore his name in 1914 in the La Jonction district of Geneva as a workshop. He also started producing automobiles and motorcycles. The brand name of the automobiles was Speidel , that of the motorcycles was initially Quick and later Speidel . After the First World War , the workshop was on Rue des Rois and provided work for about ten people. In 1922, production ended after about 15 copies were made.
vehicles
Automobiles
Speidel manufactured small cars. First, a four-cylinder engine from Chapuis-Dornier with side valves and 8 hp was used. The engine was mounted in the front of the vehicle and powered the rear axle via a cardan shaft . The transmission had three gears. In at least one vehicle, the two seats were arranged one behind the other.
In 1920 a new model appeared, which was presented in front of the exhibition halls during the Geneva Motor Show . Four-cylinder engines from the Swiss engine manufacturer Müller-Vogel (MV) with an output of 8 hp were used in this model . The transmission now had four gears. In 1922, a number of racing cars with a two-cylinder engine from Müller-Vogel with a displacement of 620 cm³ were built , which Paul Speidel used himself in small car races. These racing cars could reach a top speed of 112 km / h .
motorcycles
Various built-in engines from Allison, Moser and Precision were used in the motorcycles .
literature
- Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
- George Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
- Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6
Web links
- GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on March 19, 2012)