Viennese automobile factory

Wiener Automobil-Fabrik GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	April 1911
resolution	Late 1925
Seat	Vienna , Austria
management	Georg Zachariades
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

The Wiener Automobile GmbH was a manufacturer of automobiles and trucks from Austria-Hungary , later Austria . The company may not with the Wiener Automobilfabrik AG, vorm. Gräf & Stift can be confused.

Company history

The company was founded in April 1911 in Vienna to produce automobiles. It was the successor company to Bock & Hollender . The owner was Georg Zachariades and Ferdinand Trummer the designer. The brand name was WAF . Production ended at the end of 1925.

vehicles

WAF

Initially, the company manufactured the 25 HP and 35 HP models, which were still based on the models that Trummer designed for Bock & Hollender. In 1914 the 45 hp , also known as the Alpine type , appeared. It had a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 2800 cc and 45 hp . The first participation in the alpine tour took place in 1912, and the next in 1914 with the 45 hp .

During the First World War , trucks were built for the Austro-Hungarian army . The small models with 1.5, 2 and 3 tons had a cardan drive . The largest model with 5 tons had a chain drive.

After the war there were the 11/35 hp models with a four-cylinder engine and 21/50 hp with a six-cylinder engine . The top model was the 15/45 hp with an eight-cylinder engine . Here, two four-cylinder engines were lined up to create an in -line eight-cylinder engine . The displacement was 4000 cm³. One vehicle in this series won a class at the Rainer-Bergfahrt in Salzburg on June 29, 1924.

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)
Hans Seper , Helmut Krackowizer , Alois Brusatti : Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today. Welsermühl, Wels 1984, ISBN 3-85339-177-X .

Web links

Commons : Wiener Automobil-Fabrik - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

GTÜ Society for Technical Supervision (accessed on January 27, 2013)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
↑ ^a ^b Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[Beaulieu-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

[Österreichische_Kraftfahrzeuge-3] Seper, Krackowizer, Brusatti: Austrian motor vehicles from the beginning until today.