Wenkelmobil

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Wenkelmobil was a car brand that was built between 1903 and 1907 by the Schneider & Co. automobile works in Berlin . The vehicles were designed by Max Wenkel , born in 1874 , who initially worked as a planter in Java and had already built a number of automobiles there at the turn of the century. The first products were motor vehicles with friction wheel drive into which one or two-cylinder engines from De Dion-Bouton and Fafnir were installed.

The small cars were equipped with air and water-cooled four - stroke engines that were installed in the front or in the rear. They developed 3 to 6 hp (2.2 to 4.4 kW).

From 1905 production was limited to a standard model with a water-cooled single - cylinder engine . The output was 6 to 7 hp (4.4 to 5.1 kW). In the following year, a 9/10 hp model was added with a single-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2.25 l and an output of 10 hp (7.4 kW).

Automobile production was stopped around 1907 due to lack of demand.

In the archive of the Deutsches Museum Munich ( German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology ) there are some company publications of the Automobilwerke Schneider & Co.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief information on oldtimerservice ; found on March 7, 2010
  2. ↑ List of the archive holdings of the Deutsches Museum (: S), accessed on March 7, 2010