Vorster & Stolle engines

Vorster & Stolle Motoren AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	June 14, 1924
resolution	November 12, 1926
Reason for dissolution	insolvency
Seat	Munich , Germany
management	Hermann Vorster Martin Stolle Ernst Hermann Sander
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Registered share of more than 100 marks of Vorster & Stolle Motoren-AG from October 1924

The Vorster & Stolle Motoren AG was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Hermann Vorster (a nephew of Hugo Stinnes ), the designer Martin Stolle and Ernst Hermann Sander founded the company in Munich on June 14, 1924 . The share capital was 160,000 Reichsmarks . The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Stolle . Production ended on November 12, 1926 when bankruptcy proceedings were filed. A total of 15 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The only model was the Stolle 6/40 PS . A four-cylinder engine with 1500 cm³ displacement , OHC valve control and vertical shaft made 40 hp . The wheelbase was 288 cm and the track width was 130 cm. Car bodies were made at Karosserie Alexis Kellner in Berlin , Rupflin in Munich and Neuer & Thieme in Ulm . The purchase price of 12,000 Reichsmarks for the chassis and around 3,000 Reichsmarks for the body was too high for the time.

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)
• Erik Eckermann: Munich quality automobile : the Stolle car , in: Automobil und Motorrad Chronik, issue 10/1978, pages 24-27 and 34

Web links

• Martin Stolle's curriculum vitae with images of some of his vehicles (accessed December 28, 2013)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
3. ↑ https://www.gtue-oldtimerservice.de/automobil/marke/STOLLE/1011/