Schebera

Carrosserie Schebera GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1911
resolution	1926
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by NSU Motorenwerke
Seat	Berlin - Tempelhof , Germany
management	Ernst Schebera (Managing Director) Jacob Schapiro (Managing Director)
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

Schebera Automobilwerke AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1921 (as Süddeutsche Karosseriewerke Schebera Heilbronn AG )
resolution	1930
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by the Drauz-Werke
Seat	Heilbronn , Germany
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

Stock sample of Carosseriewerk Schebera AG from January 31, 1922

The body shop Schebera GmbH was founded in 1911 as a wheelwright operation in Berlin-Tempelhof from Ernst Schebera founded. Schebera emigrated to the USA in 1919 and then worked for Fleetwood Metal Body Co. Jacob Schapiro became the new managing director and later also owner of the Schebera body shop. In 1921 the company took over the vehicle factory in Heilbronn .

The Heilbronn company soon traded as Süddeutsche Karosseriewerke Schebera Heilbronn AG and continued to manufacture car bodies . The Berlin company served Schapiro as an automobile sales company for the Benz & Cie brands . and Protos and temporarily became Germany's largest car dealership .

In 1922 the branch in Heilbronn was renamed Schebera Automobilwerke AG and manufactured small cars , initially with engines and chassis from Cyklon Maschinenfabrik , Berlin, and later from NSU-Werke . Sales were slow; Most of the production, around 1000 cars, was delivered to Schapiros Berliner Droschkenbetrieb Kandelhardt AG .

In 1926, NSU had to take over the bankrupt company in Berlin. The Heilbronn body production went to the Drauz works in 1930 .

Car models

Benz 8/20 PS from 1914 with a Schebera body

Type	Construction period	cylinder	Displacement	power	Vmax
5/18 hp	1922/1923	4 row (Cyklon)	1300 cc	18 hp (13.2 kW)
5/20 hp	1924/1925	4 row (Cyklon)	1300 cc	20 hp (14.7 kW)
5/25 hp	1925/1926	4 row (NSU)	1309 cc	25 hp (18.4 kW)	80 km / h

Rolls-Royce Skiff

Around 1920 Schapiro-Schebera built a body for the Rolls-Royce 40/50 hp ("Silver Ghost") with the chassis number 54PB . The vehicle was built in 1914, but its Belgian owner probably had it rebuilt. The design for the open skiff - torpedo body probably came from Ernst Neumann-Neander (1871–1954). The structure of Schapiro-Schebera corresponded to the highest level of craftsmanship. Sheet metal was mainly used for the bonnet and the fenders , the actual body was built on frame according to the old shipbuilding method . To save weight and increase the rigidity of the body, there were no doors; the vehicle was boarded like a boat over the side wall. Were used mahogany - wooden planks . The construction ended in a boat-shaped pointed tail. Atypically there was an interior lining.

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literature

• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945 . 10th edition, Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7

Web links

• conceptcarz.com : Rolls-Royce 40/50 hp Silver Ghost (1914, Chassis # 54PB) Skiff by Schapiro-Schebera, made around 1920 (English), accessed on June 13, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Coachbuilders Encyclopedia , accessed May 10, 2016.
2. ^ Coachbuilt.com , accessed May 10, 2016.