Pyongsang Auto Works

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Pyongsang Auto Works
legal form State company
founding 1967 or 1968
Seat P'yŏngsŏng , North Korea
Number of employees 7000-8000
Branch Motor vehicles

Pyongsang Auto Works is a North Korean manufacturer of motor vehicles .

Company history

The company from P'yŏngsŏng began in 1967 or 1968 with the production of off-road vehicles and pick-ups . In 1974 the production area was enlarged. The area of ​​the facilities covers 248,000 m². Automobiles and trucks were added later . The brand names are Kaengsaeng , Pyongyang and Taepaeksan . A second source confirms Kaengsaeng , Pyongyang, and Taepaeksan (written Thaebaeksan).

The company is located in the Kuwŏl-dong district .

vehicles

The Kaengsaeng 68 KA was a replica of the GAZ-69 . This four-wheel drive off-road vehicle was produced from 1968 to 1985. A four-cylinder - petrol engine with 2500 cc displacement powered vehicles. The open four-door body offered space for four people.

The technically identical Kaengsaeng 68 NA from the same period had one door on the left and two doors on the right and offered space for eight people.

The Kaengsaeng 68 Truck based on it was manufactured from 1968 to the 1980s. This commercial vehicle only had rear-wheel drive. The payload was 1 ton.

The Kaengsaeng 85 is the successor to the Kaengsaeng 68 . The body was modernized while the technology remained the same. Only a few vehicles have been made so far.

The Kaengsaeng 88 car was produced between 1987 and 1988. This was the replica of the Mercedes-Benz 190 . Pyongyang 4.10 was another name for the Kaengsaeng 88 .

The Taepaeksan 70 (also Taebaeksan 70 ) was a rear-wheel drive truck from 1970 to the 1990s with a payload of 4.5 tons.

Another Taepaeksan truck (also Taebaeksan ) from the same period offered 6 tons of payload.

The Taepaeksan 96 (also Taebaeksan 96 ) was a six-wheeled truck with four-wheel drive. It was based on the KamAZ-55111 . The payload was 13 to 15 tons. A V8 engine powered the vehicles. In the only year of production 2007, 48 vehicles were built.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center (accessed on December 27, 2015)
  2. ↑ a b d'Auto zu Kaengsaeng (Dutch, accessed December 27, 2015)
  3. ^ D'Auto zu Pyongyang (Dutch, accessed December 27, 2015)
  4. ↑ d'car Thaebaeksan (Dutch retrieved on December 27, 2015)
  5. ↑ Rainer Dormels: Phyongsong - center of education and commerce. (PDF; 758 kB) In: https://koreanologie.univie.ac.at/ . University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, Koreanology, 2014, p. 5 , accessed on June 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Kaengsaeng 68 KA (English, accessed on December 27, 2015)
  7. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Kaengsaeng 68 NA (English, accessed on December 27, 2015)
  8. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Kaengsaeng 68 Truck (English, accessed December 27, 2015)
  9. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Kaengsaeng 85 (English, accessed December 27, 2015)
  10. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Kaengsaeng 88 (English, accessed on December 27, 2015)
  11. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Pyongyang 4.10 (English, accessed on December 27, 2015)
  12. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Taepaeksan 70 (English, accessed on December 27, 2015)
  13. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Taepaeksan (English, accessed December 27, 2015)
  14. ↑ Erik van Ingen Schenau: China Motor Vehicle Documentation Center on: Taepaeksan 96 (English, accessed December 27, 2015)

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