Premier bicycle & mechanical engineering

Premier Fahrrad- & Maschinenbau AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1911
resolution	1933
Seat	Cheb , Czechoslovakia
management	Geoffrey Rotherham
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer , bicycle manufacturer

The Premier Bike & Maschinenbau AG , also Omega bicycle and Motoren GmbH and Premier-Werke AG - Továrna jízdních kol a motocyklů Premier called, was a manufacturer of bicycles , motorcycles and automobiles from Austria-Hungary , later Czechoslovakia .

Company history

The company was founded in Cheb in 1911 as a joint plant of the Justus Christian Braun Premier-Werke and the Premier Cycle Company . Geoffrey Rotherham ran the company. In 1913 the production of automobiles began. The brand names were Omega and Premier . Automobile production ended in 1914. Other motorcycles were built between 1923 and 1933 under new management.

Automobiles

The two models offered were the 5/12 PS and the 6/18 PS . They corresponded to the models of the Premier factories. The vehicles had a four-cylinder engine and a three-speed transmission. The bodies offered space for two people.

Other sources only mention the 4/12 PS model , an open two-seater with a steel frame, a water-cooled four - cylinder engine with 60 mm bore , 92 mm stroke , 1040 cm³ displacement, 300 cm length, 485 kg curb weight and 60 km / h top speed .

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 (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů. České a slovenské osobní automobily od roku 1815 do současnosti. Computer Press, Brno 2007, ISBN 978-80-251-1587-9 . (Czech)
Hans Seper , Helmut Krackowizer , Alois Brusatti : Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X .
Hans Seper, Martin Pfundner, Hans Peter Lenz : Austrian automobile history. Eurotax, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-905566-01-X .

Web links

GTÜ Society for Technical Supervision (accessed on January 27, 2013)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.

[Österreichische_Kraftfahrzeuge-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[Beaulieu-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

[Encyklopedie_automobilů-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Šuman-Hreblay: Encyclopedie automobilů.

[Österreichische_Automobilgeschichte-5] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.