Popp (automobile manufacturer)

Popp from 1898 at the Retro Classics 2018

Popp from 1898

Popp was a Swiss manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Lorenz Popp from Basel was the importer of Benz & Cie. for Switzerland. He started producing automobiles in 1898. In 1900 production was stopped. Very few vehicles were produced.

vehicles

The models were similar to the German Benz models. There was the model 7 CV with a two-cylinder engine with 1594 cc displacement in the rear. The power was transmitted to the rear axle via a two-speed gearbox and chain. There were bodies with two and four seats.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed in the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne .

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
Ernest Schmid: Swiss cars. Swiss automobile designs from 1868 to the present day. Auto-Jahr, Lausanne 1978, ISBN 2-88001-058-6

Web links

Commons : Popp - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)
Töfftöff; when the automobile arrived in Basel