Progress engine & apparatus construction

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Progress Motoren- & Apparatebau GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1900
resolution 1914
Seat Berlin - Charlottenburg , Germany
management Paul Schauer
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Progress Motoren- & Apparatebau GmbH was a German manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles . Another source writes Progress-Motoren und Apparatebau GmbH , which is also proven by an advertisement.

Company history

Paul Schauer, who had already designed a motorcycle in 1898, founded the company in 1900 together with some partners in Berlin-Charlottenburg for the production of motorcycles. Automobiles were also created later. The brand name was Progress . Automobile production ended in 1902. The company closed in 1914.

vehicles

The production model of the motorcycle was based on the design from 1898. Built-in engines from Fafnir and Zédel provided the drive. The four-wheeled automobiles were partly made from motorcycle parts.

In addition, three-wheeled tricars were produced between 1905 and 1906 . They were based on the motorcycles, but instead of the front wheel they had a preload car with a padded seat. Fafnir's single - cylinder four-stroke engine was air-cooled . Motor outputs of 3 HP and 3.5 HP have been handed down.

literature

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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 , chapter Progress (II).
  2. ↑ a b 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. 304–305.