Pe-Ka vehicle factory

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Pe-Ka vehicle factory Paul Kneschke
legal form
founding 1924
resolution 1926
Seat Dresden , Germany
management Paul Kneschke
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Pe-Ka vehicle factory Paul Kneschke was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Dresden-based company began producing automobiles in 1924. The brand name was Pe-Ka . In the spring of 1924 a vehicle was presented at the Leipzig spring fair. Production ended in the same year or 1926.

Another source states that three companies produced three-wheelers of the Pe-Ka brand. These were the Peka-Fahrzeugfabrik from Dresden, the PE-KA-Fahrzeugbau GmbH from Karlsruhe and the P. Raebel GmbH Fahrzeugbau from Berlin-Weißensee . The connection is unclear.

vehicles

The only passenger car model was a tricycle . One source calls it Lulawa . The single wheel was in the front. A built-in engine from DKW with 1.5 HP , 2.5 HP or 5.5 HP provided the drive . It was an air-cooled single - cylinder two-stroke engine with a displacement of 192 cc . The motor powered either a single rear wheel or both rear wheels, depending on the source. The vehicle had space for one or two people. The curb weight was given as 70 kg. The new price was 750 Reichsmarks . Construction time was either only in 1924 or from 1924 to 1925.

There was also a business tricycle from 1924 to 1926 . It was a converted bike . A single-cylinder two-stroke engine from Unterberg & Helmle with a displacement of 51 cm³ and 0.75 hp was mounted above the front wheel to drive the front wheel. Between the two rear wheels there was a bed or a box for luggage. The payload was specified as 75 kg.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , pp. 283–285.
  2. ↑ a b George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .