Tamag

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Ernst Wilhelm Taschner GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1932
resolution 1934
Seat Krefeld , Germany
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Tamag was a German vehicle brand.

description

The Ernst Wilhelm Taschner GmbH was based in Krefeld . In 1932 the production of three-wheeled motor vehicles began . It ended in 1934.

The main product was commercial vehicles . They had the single wheel in front. The motor was mounted above the front wheel and powered it via a chain. Are called single cylinder - two-stroke engines with 198 cc displacement and 7 PS of Ilo and DKW and 298 cc and 9 PS of DKW. Initially, the driver's compartment was open and the engine was uncovered. The closed driver's cab and bonnet did not come until 1933. Flatbed and box vans were offered. A few emerged as passenger cars and were bodied as limousines and touring cars .

In 1933 the Tamag Zepp came out as a specially designed small car . He was a three wheeler with a single rear wheel. It had air-cooled single-cylinder two-stroke engines from Ilo and DKW with a displacement of 198 cm³ and 6 hp. In addition, water-cooled two - cylinder two- stroke engines with 400 and 600 cm³ displacement from Ilo and DKW were planned. The vehicles were front-wheel drive . The wheelbase was 225 cm, the track width 138 cm and the curb weight 345 kg. A three-seater coupé in streamlined shape was produced. An open version with three seats was also planned.

Another source confirms that tricycles were presented at the 1933 IAMA . They had Ilo and DKW engines with 200 cm³, 400 cm³ and 600 cm³ displacement.

literature

  • Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 459.
  • Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, London 2000, ISBN 0-7864-0972-X . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 338-340.
  2. ^ Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss : The German automobile industry. Documentation from 1886 until today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 253 .