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Owner / user Machine tool and car manufacturing company

owner Machine tool and car manufacturing company
Introductory year 1919
Products Motor vehicles
Markets German Empire
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Walmobil was a German car brand.

description

Vehicles of this brand were marketed between 1919 and 1921.

It was a collaboration between Walter Loebel and a Mr. Landgrebe. The first names E., Erich and CO have been handed down for Landgrebe. There are many indications that it was Carl Otto Landgrebe who later ran his own company Landgrebe and received a patent in 1936 for a wheel suspension with a flexible drive for three-wheeled motor vehicles . Advertisements for the manufacturer include Walter Löbel Maschinenfabrik Leipzig on the one hand and Walter Löbel Maschinenfabrik with headquarters in Berlin and a branch and factory in Leipzig on the other .

The model Walmobil System Loebel-Landgrebe was a small car . Production began at the Walter Loebel machine factory in Leipzig . In the same year the company moved to Dresden . In 1920 there was another move back to Leipzig and the name was changed to Werkzeugmaschinen- und Autobau-AG .

A three-wheeled vehicle was built with only one seat. The vehicle was driven by a V2 - four-stroke engine of 770 cc displacement and an output 6-7 PS . The motor was mounted above the front wheel and drove it via a cardan shaft .

In 1921, the production of the Walmobile was stopped because the demand was no longer sufficient for economical production.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GTÜ ( Memento from February 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 377–378.
  3. ↑ 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. 368.
  4. ↑ 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. 208.
  5. ↑ Wheel suspension with flexible drive for three-wheeled vehicles (accessed on June 20, 2020)