Selve

Selve Automobilwerke AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	1919 (as Selve Automobilwerke GmbH )
resolution	1934
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Hameln , Germany
management	Ernst Lehmann (Director)
Number of employees	up to 700
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

The Selve Automotive GmbH (from 1922: Selve automotive Werke AG ) was a German automobile manufacturer .

Company history

The company was founded in 1919 as the industrialist Dr.-Ing. eh Walther von Selve bought the North German automobile works in Hameln . Together with the motor works Basse & Selve in Altena , they became part of a group founded by Gustav Selve .

Under the aegis of director Ernst Lehmann , medium-sized cars of conventional design with 4-cylinder engines were initially produced. Only motors from sister company Basse & Selve were used. These engines were developed by Walther von Selve and were the first engines with light metal pistons (aluminum alloy) that were ever installed in cars. At times up to 700 workers and employees were employed. From 1927 the company left the middle class behind and shifted to luxury limousines and Pullman limousines with 6-cylinder engines. However, the global economic crisis caused sales to stagnate, so that automobile production was given up in 1929. In 1934 the company finally went bankrupt , just two years after its sister company Basse & Selve.

Car models

Type	Construction period	cylinder	Displacement	power	Vmax
6/20 hp	1919-1921	4 row	1570 cc	20 hp (14.7 kW)	70 km / h
8/30 hp	1920-1921	4 row	2086 cc	30 HP (22 kW)	90 km / h
6/24 hp	1921-1923	4 row	1570 cc	24 hp (17.7 kW)	70 km / h
8/32 hp	1922-1925	4 row.	2086 cc	32 HP (23.5 kW)	90 km / h
8/40 hp sport	1923-1925	4 row	2091 cc	40 hp (29 kW)	100 km / h
9/36 hp	1926-1927	4 row	2360 cc	36 hp (26.5 kW)	83 km / h
11/45 hp	1927	6 row	2850 cc	45 hp (33 kW)	90 km / h
12/50 hp	1928	6 row	3096 cc	50 HP (37 kW)	90 km / h
Selecta	1929	6 row	3096 cc	50 HP (37 kW)	90 km / h