Way & Co.

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Weise & Co. Motor-Dreirad-Fabrik GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1925
resolution 1939
Seat Berlin-Neukölln
Branch Motor vehicles

Weise & Co. was a German manufacturer of motor vehicles .

description

The company was initially based at Greifswalder Strasse 140/41 in Berlin NE and later at Hobrechtstrasse 66 in Berlin-Neukölln . It created three-wheeled motor vehicles that were marketed as way . The existence is passed down for the years from 1925 to 1939.

The models Weise-Express from 1925 to 1928, Weise-Mobil from 1930 to 1935 and Weise delivery van or K-model from 1933 to 1937 are named. All of them had the single wheel in front. A single - cylinder two-stroke engine from Rinne was mounted above it . He made 5 to 7 HP from 196 cm³ displacement . The engine power was transmitted to the front wheel via a chain. The vehicles were between 280 cm and 325 cm long, 155 cm wide and 160 cm high, although the height of course was dependent on the structure. The curb weight was given as about 300 kg. There was a choice of panel vans , flatbed trucks , open two-seater, open four-seater and two-door sedan . Over time, the body was refined. So gradually came the bonnet and closed cab.

One source mentions the following single-cylinder engines: von Rinne with 197 cm³ displacement and 5 HP, von Ilo four different ones with 197 cm³ displacement and 5.5 HP, with 246 cm³ displacement and 7 HP, with 346 cm³ displacement and 7.5 HP as well as with 395 cm³ displacement and 12 HP power.

Quantities

According to one source, 65 vehicles have been handed down for 1935. The following year it was 67 and then 76.

Another source gives the assigned range of chassis numbers for each year . The following numbers for the years from 1932 to 1939 can be derived from this: 62, 51, 66, 58, 74, 80, 81 and 80.

Two vehicles should still exist.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 380–384.
  2. ↑ a b c Hans Lipp (editor): Motor vehicles in Germany approx. 1930 - 1940. Years of construction and chassis numbers. Munich 2017, pp. 210–211.
  3. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter way.