Tempo (car)
- Variations of tempo Trademark
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The Vidal & Sohn Tempo -Werk GmbH with headquarters in Harburg was founded in 1928 to build vans. Due to a law of 1928 vehicles with less than four wheels and an engine capacity of less than 200 cubic centimeters could be driven without a license and were tax-free. Therefore, there was a great demand for such vehicles.
- 3.1 1928-1943
- 3.2 1949-1966
History
The first speed (T1 ) was still in his father's coal business, was involved in the Oscar Vidal as a junior partner. There built two master locksmith called muzzleloader, a tricycle with the loading area in front of the driver's seat, which was driven by a Ilo engine. The first vehicles manufactured in our own factory were the T 6 and T 10 are known today primarily still the pace - tricycles and model Matador.
The common design principle of the delivery truck, everything was designed to accommodate the necessary drive in the cab, so you in the choice of the structure had a free hand. Correspondingly varied was the choice of special structures for special transports and municipalities.
As of 1933, four-wheeled convertible sedans and vans were beside the tricycle, which now had an enclosed cab in front of the loading platform, made with box body.
Oscar Vidal (Tempo) went in 1955 to connect with the Hanomag a; 1959, both companies came to the Rhine Steel Group. 1965, Vidal from his last shares in the Rhine Steel Group, the brand disappeared pace. Within the Rhine steel Konzernes the company came to Hanomag. The tempo vans has been further developed to " Harburg Transporter", which was first marketed under the name Hanomag. As of 1966, the Tempo Matador took the Rhine steel Hanomag emblem. The pace - work was part of the new 1969 Hanomag -Henschel vehicle Werke GmbH, which was acquired in 1971 by Daimler -Benz AG. Since today's Daimler Group is the owner of the former tempo work, where until 1978 the " Harburg Transporter" with Mercedes star as Mercedes L were 206/307 continued to be built.
Mid-1950s were 101,000 three-wheeled "Tempo " vehicles permitted to be marketed. This number was halved ten years later. 3,500 cars in 1978 were still registered. At 31 December 2008 there were 87 approved for transport tricycles from Harburg.
By 1984, the plant employees could easily reach their workplace in Bostelbek located in the immediate vicinity of the railway station Tempo work the Lower Elbe Railway walk.
Since 1962 Tempo tricycle vehicles were built as a joint venture product " Bajaj Tempo" in India ( from 1986 with Lombardini diesel engines ) and imported occasionally to Europe. A variant of the Hanseat was produced as a single-cylinder four -stroke diesel to 2000 and mostly used as an auto rickshaw.
Rolling stock
The first three wheelers
The first Tempo Tricycles arose from a combination of motorcycle and trailer that was located in front of the driver. In the further development of the cab was moved in front of the flatbed or the box. The tempo tricycles were with one-or two -cylinder two- stroke spark-ignition engines fitted (Tempo A 400 from 1938, for example, with 400 cc and 12 hp ), which drives the front wheel via a gear and a chain - engine, transmission, the chain case as a supporting part and the front wheel were connected thereto as a whole pivotable portion hingedly connected to the remainder of the vehicle.
Passenger cars
Although the pace of factory mainly built commercial vehicles, but from 1933 onwards there were also some three-wheeled passenger cars. The pace front was offered as a convertible sedan with two seats. There was also a combination of pace car, a two-door sedan with four seats. The economic importance of these vehicles, however, remained low.
SUVs
The SUV pace G 1200 was produced from 1936 to 1944. Otto Daus developed in 1936 for pace this SUV with two motors ( one front and one rear) and all-wheel drive. The two-stroke engines each had 19 hp and each drove in one axis. While driving on the road, a motor was off. For the newly established Federal manufactured the factory Land Rover is under license. After the first prototype in 1952 about 278 cars were built from 1953 to 1957 in two variants and delivered to the Federal. The chassis was delivered by Land Rover and equipped of pace with an open steel body with folding top.
Hanseat pace and tempo Boy
After the war tempo built the A 400 until March 1950 largely unchanged, with two-cylinder two -stroke engine of Ilo, not synchronized three-speed transmission and cable brakes. Support the superstructure was a central tube frame that could be delivered in two sizes, namely either with a wheelbase of 2870 mm or 3170. With more rounded edges on the hood and a new round logo on the radiator grille of the car was from 1948 Tempo Hanseat. Under the pressure of competition from Goliath 's performance in 1950 was raised from 12 to 13 hp. The front wheel and a shock absorber received in the place of the suspended rigid axle of the rear leaf springs joined a pendulum axle with four helical springs. The payload of the pickup truck was 750 kilograms; Price DM 3300 Other structures such as box or bags were available.
1953 provided the design office Müller- Andernach an improved engine with an output of 15 hp for the Hanseat, but do not lift the now declining sales numbers and could slow the trend towards four-wheeled transporter.
In addition to the built Hanseat pace since 1950, the externally similar model Boy with a 197- cm ³ - or optional 250 - cc single-cylinder engine. Both designs aimed at the owner of the former class IV license for vehicles up to 250 cc. The base price was DM 2390 The maximum payload of 420 kg reached the Tempo Boy a top speed of 40 km / h
Data from the last Tempo Matador before the takeover by Hanomag:
The figures relate to the execution as a van.
Models
1928-1943
1949-1966
World Records
With a pace in 1934 five world records in the 200 cc class were set up for open van with a 500 kg payload at the Berlin AVUS. In the 350- cc class for tricycles world records for 9, 10, 11 and 12 hours and over 1000 km reach with an average speed of 54.1 km / h