Vesuvius (make of car)

Alfred Hupfeld
legal form
founding	1899
resolution	1901
Seat	Kassel , Germany
management	Alfred Hupfeld
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Vesuvius was a German car brand.

Company history

Alfred Hupfeld's company that bore his name began producing automobiles in Kassel in 1899 . The brand name was Vesuvius . Production ended in 1901. Another source names 1900 as the date of foundation and the date of dissolution.

vehicles

The range offered motor vehicles with three and four wheels. The vehicles offered space for two people.

According to an advertisement by the company, the tricycle, whose single wheel was in the rear, had a water-cooled motor of 4 hp and had an electric ignition.

Another source confirms the three-wheeled cart for 1900.

literature

Ulrich Kubisch : German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring (accessed on October 18, 2012)
↑ ^a ^b ccarshow.net (accessed October 18, 2012)
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ulrich Kubisch: German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 .
^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, p. 53.
↑ 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. 373.

[GTÜ-1] GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring (accessed on October 18, 2012)

[ccarshow-2] rshow.net (accessed October 18, 2012)

[Deutsche_Automarken-3] Ulrich Kubisch: German car brands from A – Z. VF Verlagsgesellschaft, Mainz 1993, ISBN 3-926917-09-1 .

[Kirchberg-4] Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, p. 53.

[100_Jahre_auf_3_Rädern-5] 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. 373.