Utilitas

Utilitas company Ritzer & Co. GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1920 (as Nationale Kleinauto-Gesellschaft mbH )
resolution	1922
Reason for dissolution	bankruptcy
Seat	Berlin - Wilmersdorf , Germany
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The "Utilitas" GmbH Ritzer & Co. was a German company for the production of small cars, which in 1920 and 1921 was located in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Fasanenstrasse 46. It had the legal form of a limited liability company ; details of the shareholders are not known. The brand "Utilitas" refers to the Latin term utilitas , in German benefit , usefulness (cf. also Utilis ).

At first, small cars with one and two-cylinder engines were offered. A short time later, a two-seater roadster was created in a tandem arrangement (two seats in a row) with a 4/10 hp four-cylinder in - line engine . Finally there was a four-seater vehicle, also with a four-cylinder engine. Its engine was rated 4/14 hp.

In 1922 the brand had already disappeared from the market.

literature

• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 449.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Adreßbuch 1921 , Volume 2, 1st part, p. 3165, and Volume 3, 4th part, p. 28.
2. ↑ https://www.gtue-oldtimerservice.de/automobil/marke/UTILITAS/1224/