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Kölner Elektromobil-Gesellschaft Heinrich Scheele

 Vehicle manufacturer Cologne Germany from 1988 to 1925

Kölner Elektromobil-Gesellschaft Heinrich Scheele  Vehicle manufacturer Cologne Germany from 1988 to 1925

 

The Cologne electromobile company Heinrich Scheele was a German manufacturer of electric cars and commercial vehicles .The brand name was later as K.E.W.

History

The company was located between 1899 and 1925 in Cologne .They Built electrically powered passenger cars , ambulances and trucks .

In 1903, the company presented a Landauer at the German Automobile Exhibition in Berlin . 

The company Wagenbauanstalt Heinrich Scheele published in 1891 under the management of the merchant Bernhard Scheele moved their company headquarters from Elberfeld to Cologne, but kept the headquarters until 1908 as a branch office.

 As one of the first German companies The Heinrich company began Scheele, factory for electric motorwagen, Cologne, Marichterstrasse 41-43 (Motorwagenbau) and Cologne-Melaten, Aachenerstraße 163 (luxury car construction),

in 1898 with active participation of the Cologne accumulator works Gottfried Hagen withthe construction of electric cars, electric cabs and electric business vehicles with a 6 to 7 hp motor and chain) that was able to carried a payload of up to 1.25 t.They already been tested with heavy-duty trucks with 5 t payload fitted with two 6/7 HP motors and however, with a top speed of only of 6 to 8 km/h. and a range of only 45 kilometres range could not be used at the time.

With the motor vehicle exhibition presented in Berlin in 1899.The international recognition was gained in England in particular and in 1906 the company was founded in Cologne Electromobile factory Heinrich Scheele renamed (brand name: "K.E.W."),with Branch offices in Berlin, Frankfurt a. Maine and London. By 1907 and the ever-increasing competition of petrol vehicles by 1908, opened Bankruptcy proceedings,the company that still went on and by 1914 Scheele made small electric buses in the in the First World War, the motor vehicle factory. Scheele operating companies as the electromobile commercial vehicles now builtwith gasoline-electric and pure petrol drive units as 3-ton trucks.

After the war at the German Automobile Exhibition in Berlin in 1921, Scheele was shown two2.5 t electric vehicles.In 1910 the production was limited to light trucks up to 1.5 tons. Payloads changed and 1925 production stopeed completely.

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