Solomobile

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E. Moll
Kraftwagenfabrik Solomobil GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1919
resolution 1922
Seat Berlin , Germany
Branch Motor vehicles

Solomobil GmbH's stand at the autumn fair in Leipzig in 1919

The Kraftwagenfabrik Solomobil GmbH , previously E. Moll , was a German automobile manufacturer.

Company history

Initially, the company traded as E. Moll with its headquarters at Bamberger Strasse 14 in Berlin . In 1919 two automobiles were presented at the Leipzig autumn fair . The Solomobil-Ges. mbH and Blankenfelde Straße 9 can be recognized. Contrary to this, 1920 and 1921 are also mentioned as the start of production. The company name Kraftwagenfabrik Solomobil GmbH was handed down later . The brand name of the vehicles was Solomobil . The vehicles were offered until 1922. Then the track of the company is lost.

vehicles

Small cars were on offer . They had air-cooled gasoline engines . Hugo Mitzenheim is named as the designer.

One model was a tricycle with a single front wheel. The V2 - four-stroke engine had 498 cc engine capacity and made 10 hp . The engine power was transferred to the rear wheels via a three-speed gearbox. There is no differential . The track width was 120 cm and the vehicle length 210 cm. The maximum speed was given as 40 km / h. There was a choice of open single-seaters and tandem two-seaters with a hood. Other sources cite a 4/10 hp model. The specification stood for 4 tax horsepower and 10 HP engine power, which corresponds to about 1000 cm³ displacement. According to another source, the engine came from NSU Motorenwerke and was mounted behind the front wheel.

There was also the 6/12 PS . This car had four wheels.

literature

Web links

Commons : Solomobil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 325.
  2. ^ Advertisement by E. Moll (accessed on November 17, 2019)
  3. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Solomobil.
  4. ↑ a b Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , page 457.
  5. ↑ Motorwagen (accessed on November 17, 2019)