Pluto automobile factory

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Automobilfabrik Zella-Mehlis GmbH
Pluto Automobilfabrik AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1924
resolution 1927
Seat Zella-Mehlis , Germany
management Gustav Ehrhardt
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Pluto automobile factory AG , previously automobile factory Zella-Mehlis GmbH , was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The automobile factory Zella-Mehlis GmbH was founded in 1924 in Zella-Mehlis . In the same year, the production of automobiles began under the direction of Gustav Ehrhardt. The brand name was Pluto . In 1927 the name was changed to Pluto Automobilfabrik AG with a simultaneous increase in the share capital from 600,000 to 1,000,000 Reichsmarks. The director Ernst Wolff switches to series production. Production ended in the same year.

vehicles

The company manufactured Amilcar vehicles under license . One model was the 4/20 PS , which corresponded to the Amilcar Type C 4 . Its four-cylinder engine had a capacity of 1004 cc and made 20 hp . There was also the 5/30 hp , which corresponded to the Amilcar type CGS . Its four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1074 cm³ made 30 hp. The 5/30/65 hp racing version , which developed 65 hp with a supercharger , was derived from this . This model had some success in car races, driven by Friedrich, Glockenbach, Mederer and von Eine.

A Pluto from 1924 with the license plate IE 45139 of the German Reich still exists.

Engine deliveries

Voran-Automobilbau from Berlin used Pluto engines.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ 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. ^ 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. 144 .
  4. ↑ Motor Classic . Issue 1/1997, p. 123.