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U-Wagen-Werke Ing. Umann
legal form
founding	1919
resolution	1923
Seat	Vienna , Austria
management	Umann
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The U-Wagen-Werke Ing. Umann were a manufacturer of automobiles from Austria .

Company history

The Vienna-based company began producing automobiles in 1919 under the direction of the engineer Umann. The brand name was U-Wagen . Production ended in 1923.

vehicles

The company manufactured small cars. In two-seat prototype U 1 one came two-cylinder engine with 489 cc displacement are used. A special feature was its Soden transmission with automatic pre-selection, developed by Carl Alfred Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen , Director of ZF . The empty weight was 360 kg. In the 7/18 hp series model , a four-cylinder engine with 760 cm³ or 780 cm³ displacement provided the drive. The most common body shape was that of a two-seater roadster . In 1920 the 7/18 PS U 2 model added to the range. Its engine had a displacement of 1100 cm³. The body offered either space for two or four people.

On August 12, 1923, two vehicles took part in the IV. Filius-Fahrt in memory of the deceased co-founder of the "Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung", Adolf Schmal-Filius .

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
Hans Seper , Helmut Krackowizer , Alois Brusatti : Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X .
Hans Seper, Martin Pfundner, Hans Peter Lenz : Austrian automobile history. Eurotax, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-905566-01-X .

Web links

Commons : U-Wagen Works - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.
^ ^A ^b ^c Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[Beaulieu-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

[Österreichische_Kraftfahrzeuge-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.

[Österreichische_Automobilgeschichte-4] A ^b ^c Seper, Pfundner, Lenz: Austrian automobile history.