AGA (automobile)
The joint stock company for the automotive industry (in short: AGA or AGA ) was a German automobile manufacturer, founded in 1909 as oxy-fuel gas -accumulator AG German subsidiary of the existing into the 21st century Swedish company Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator (AGA ) in Berlin, from 1917 established in the first after the end of World War I finally completed its own factory building in the heart mountain road. During World War I, the company introduced, inter alia, Machine gun parts forth. 1920 the gas company changed its name to the corporation for the automotive industry but at the same time re-established the gas AGA, so that the Berlin gas company AGA continued to exist alongside the car manufacturers and, moreover, even after 1945, worked in West Berlin. Since 1922 the Berlin Motor Company AGA part of the Stinnes Group. These data result from the present in the Berlin State Archives commercial register.
In the fall of 1919, a first car, the AGA type A 6/ 16 hp in Berlin, was presented to the public; Possibly there had been a previously mounted pre-series. The the usual mainly in the 20s type of structure initially mostly karossierte as an open four-seater with strong angular wings and pointed radiator first AGA - car based on the Belgian FN 6 hp, but was not part of the manufacturer as under license. His website controlled four-cylinder in-line engine had 1.4 liters and developed 11.8 kW (16 hp). The force was routed outside a leather cone clutch and a three -speed transmission with shift lever right of the vehicle to the wheels of the rigid, leaf-sprung rear axle. A special feature of the Karossierungen this vehicle was disappeared in a box behind the rear seats ' built- hood ". Due to leakage and fold the wet canopy, there was allegedly due to lack of ventilation time and again to unsightly mildew stains. It should be noted that this defect happens if mishandled, so the aggregation of wet canopy, even with obscure, can not find the place in such a case.
1921 was the recognizable at its pointed radiator type A a structurally unchanged engine with a stronger power of 20 hp. A year later, identifiable at his flat radiator AGA type C 6/ 20 hp came on the market. As is common in the 20s, the body was also the AGA one vendor part, so that there was AGA - cart with a large number of divergent structures as four-and two-seater as an open Phaeton, Limousine, Landaulet or van. AGA cars were often used in big cities like Berlin, Hamburg and Wroclaw as a taxi. Towards the end of the production period, a somewhat elongated type C were prepared with 24 hp. A four-wheel brake was also available at that time.
AGA was particularly active in the first half of the 20s in racing. Three cars were involved in September 1921 with the first race at the Avus circuit in Berlin. For the participation in the Targa Florio, the famous rally in Sicily, AGA built specifically a racing car of the type TF ( = Targa Florio ).
In 1924, the company went under the direction of the Stinnes son Edmund Stinnes after previous payment problems in bankruptcy. A collecting society, the Aga - cars - recovery GmbH mounted to 1927 some C-type vehicles from residual parts. In 1927, as a successor to the Aga vehicle Werke GmbH, which for two years built the Type C as 6/24 hp. 1929 had to file for bankruptcy also this operation. Overall, in ten years, more than 10,000 vehicles with the name AGA had arisen.