The list of car manufacturers in Hessen is very small today. However, almost one hundred years ago, other motor vehicle manufacturers, besides the Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim, tried to impose themselves on the national competition with innovative and bold designs.
Among them were engineers Carl Au and Walter Stein who, together with Gottlieb Hartlieb and Ludwig Sauber, launched a car called Falcon.
The Falcon CA 6 6/20 PS was their first product, built in the former production warehouses of the Max Walbinger munitions factory in Ober-Ramstadt.
The model soon gained a reputation as a reliable and powerful car, even in racing. Other models followed, always under the motto "höchste Ansprüche zu befriedigen" (meet the highest requirements), as advertised by the company.
The Falcon in Ober-Ramstadt established itself as a respectable brand. Until the mid-1920s, when duties were lowered in Germany on imports of foreign cars - mostly cheaply produced in large series - causing a die-off of German car manufacturers.
Even Falcon had to give up just six years after its promising foundation. With this book, Werner Schollenberger offers us a (further) interesting insight beyond the veil of oblivion, and makes Falcon cars relive in words and pictures.
A journey through an era in which the evolution of automobiles led to many dead ends, but was nevertheless ingenious and innovative.
112 pages and 123 pictures.
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