Zetge vehicle works

Zetge vehicle works
legal form	Corporation
founding	1922
resolution	1925
Seat	Dresden
Branch	Automotive industry

Zetge-Fahrzeug-Werke AG share of more than 1,000 marks from April 1923

Zetge-Fahrzeug-Werke was a German manufacturer of motor vehicles . The brand name was Zetge for motorcycles and Zetgelette for automobiles .

description

The company Zimmer & Gehlich, Zetge-Fahrzeugwerke GmbH was the manufacturer. The seat was initially in Moys near Görlitz and later in Dresden . From 1923 the company name was Zetge Fahrzeug-Werke AG . Motorcycles were made from 1922 to 1925.

The construction period of the Zetgelette was from 1922 to 1924. The only model was a small car . It was a tricycle with a single front wheel. The engine was mounted above the front wheel. It drove the front wheel via a two-speed gearbox and a chain. The single - cylinder two-stroke engine came from DKW . It was air-cooled and developed 2.5 HP from a displacement of 123 cm³ . The body was an open single-seater with a convertible top.

literature

Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , page 463.

Web links

Commons : Zetge Vehicle Works - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1785 (English).
↑ ^a ^b 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. 401–402.

[Beaulieu-1] George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 3: P-Z . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 1785 (English).

[100_Jahre_auf_3_Rädern-2] 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. 401–402.