Dux Factory

Products

• Bicycles
• Motorcycles
• Automobile
• Aircraft Template: Infobox Company / Maintenance / products

Dux Fahrradwerke was a Russian manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles and aircraft.

Company History

Yuri Alexandrovich Meller (also Möller written ) founded in 1900 in Moscow, a company for production of bicycles. , Which led the brand name Dux. 1902 began the production of automobiles. 1906 or 1907 production ended. A total of about 200 cars emerged. 1908 began production of motorcycles. Until the outbreak of the First World War came about 400 motorcycles. 1910 or 1911 began experiments with aircraft. It is not known when the company was dissolved.

Rolling stock

Automobile

Electric vehicles

1902 emerged the first models with electric motor. This was to buses for hotels. The cars had a wheelbase of 285 cm, were 430 cm long, 190 cm wide and 270 cm high and offered ten passengers. The top speed was given as 20 km / h and range of 60 km.

Steam car

In 1903, a three-wheeled steam car Alexandr Basilewski ago. He was in touch with Dux, but the exact connection to Dux is unclear.

Gasoline cars

The only gasoline-powered model was the Duxomobil. It was a license production of the Oldsmobile Curved Dash. For the drive was provided by a single-cylinder engine with 1940 cc and 4 hp. The top speed was given as 35 km / h. One of these vehicles was 1907, the first motorized taxi in Moscow.

Motorcycles

For driving the motorcycles a V2 engine of Moto Rêve made ​​with 275 cc displacement and 2 hp. From about 1912, the engine displacement to 294 cc and the engine power was increased to 2.5 hp. A motorcycle started production in 1985 at a veterans motorcycle ride in Riga part.