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16-794: The factory in Frankfurt-Gallus still exists and was restored in the late 1990s for use as an office building. It also houses the Gallustheater and a restaurant. The Adler factory produced bicycles (from 1880), typewriters , sewing machines motorcycles , aircraft and calculators in addition to cars. Before World War I , the company used De Dion two- and four- cylinder engines in cars that ranged from 1032 cc to 9081 cc; beginning in 1902 (the year Edmund Rumpler became technical director), they used their own engines as well. These cars, driven by Erwin Kleyer and Otto Kleyer (sons of

32-737: A 2540 cc or 2916 cc six-cylinder engine, while the Adler Standard 8 which appeared a year later use a 3887 cc eight-cylinder engine. The Standard 6, first seen in public at the Berlin Motor Show in October 1926 was the first Continental European car to use Lockheed hydraulic brakes (the Triumph 13/35 offered them in the UK in 1924 and Duesenberg offered them in the US in 1920), when it

48-683: A mid-mounted engine, and independent wheel suspension with swing-axles at the rear. After completion in May 1931, Ganz nicknamed his new prototype Maikäfer ( May Beetle ). After a shift in management at Adler, further development of the Maikäfer was stopped as the company's new technical director Hans Gustav Röhr concentrated on front-wheel driven cars. In the 1930s, the company introduced front-wheel drive Trumpf and Trumpf-Junior models, ranging from 995 cc to 1645 cc four-cylinder flat-head sv engines. These gained many successes in races, including in

64-524: A second bicycle factory in his native Nuremberg , Germany, under the same Triumph name. Both factories branched out into making motorcycles : the Coventry factory in 1902 and the Nuremberg factory in 1903. In its early decades the Nuremberg factory produced models with the same 499 cc and 545 cc four-stroke engines as its sister plant in Coventry. Confusion between motorcycles produced by

80-518: A streamlined body designed by Paul Jaray , this car could run at 125 km/h (78 mph). After World War II , a decision was made to not resume automobile construction. Motorcycle production resumed in 1949 and continued for eight years, leading to the production of the MB 250S. As part of war reparations to the Allies, Adler motorcycle designs were ceded to Britain; however it is an urban myth that

96-488: The Le Mans race. The 1943 cc Favorit , the 2916 cc six-cylinder Diplomat (featuring 65 hp (48 kW) at 3800 rpm , and the 1910 cc four-cylinder and 2494 cc six-cylinder models (with Ambi-Budd and Karmann bodywork ) were all rear-driven ; these were built until World War II . The last new car introduced by Adler was the 2.5 Liter of 1937; it had a six-cylinder engine producing 58 hp (43 kW). Thanks to

112-577: The Second World War Triumph made successful models including the 200 cc Cornet split single two-stroke and the split-single 1 cylinder 350 cc Boss. A split single has one "divided" cylinder (with 2 bores) but only one common combustion chamber and spark plug. Triumph/TWN's production of split singles began with the BD250 in 1939 designed by Otto Reitz. In 1953 a 2 cylinder 250 cm³ single-split model Duplex with 4 pistons

128-462: The 90 hectare large grounds. The Mövenpick Hotel Frankfurt City has been there since 2006. This Hesse location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Triumph (TWN) Triumph-Werke Nürnberg AG or TWN , was a German bicycle and motorcycle company. In 1886, Siegfried Bettmann founded the Triumph bicycle factory in Coventry , England, and in 1896 he founded

144-469: The Adler designs formed the basis of Ariel 's Arrow and Leader models. Increasingly, Adler focused on the manufacture of office equipment. The company associated with Triumph to form Triumph-Adler , and was taken over by Grundig in 1957, then later by Olivetti . In 1969 Adler was acquired by Litton Industries . In 1993, Olivetti sold Adlerwerke AG, which is still listed on the stock exchange, with

160-572: The Coventry and Nuremberg Triumph companies led to the latter's products being renamed "Orial" for certain export markets. However, in the 1920s there was already an Orial motorcycle maker in Lyon , France, so the Nuremberg motorcycles were renamed again as "TWN", standing for Triumph Werke Nürnberg . After 1913 the English and German factories diverged, with the Nuremberg works making motorcycles with 248 cc and 269 cc two-stroke engines . After

176-524: The German word "Galgen" (English: Gallows ). Gallus extends in the west to Griesheim , while it is bordered in the north by the exhibition center and the Rebstockpark and in the south by the railway tracks. An important transport and business axis, Mainzer Landstraße , which is bordered by car dealers, gas stations and office buildings, cuts directly across the entire city section. On the grounds of

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192-469: The company founder Heinrich Kleyer) and by Alfred Theves won many sporting events. In the 1920s, Karl Irion raced many Adlers; popular models of the period included the 2298 cc, 1550 cc, and 4700 cc four-cylinders and the 2580 cc six-cylinders. A few of the Standard models, built between 1927 and 1934, featured Gropius -designed coachwork. The Adler Standard 6 , which entered volume production in 1927, had

208-480: The entire historical factory premises in Frankfurt to real estate investor Roland Ernst and construction company Philipp Holzmann. The existing typewriter production was initially relocated and finally discontinued in 1998; the site with the listed buildings was sold separately to subsidiaries of the investors. In 1999 HBAG Real Estate (formerly Kühltransit AG) took over 98.3 percent of the shares of Adlerwerke AG from

224-579: The financially troubled Philipp Holzmann AG. Adlerwerke AG changed its name to Adler Real Estate in 2002 and have been active in real estate project development since then. Gallus (Frankfurt am Main) Gallus (known as the Gallusviertel until 2007) is a quarter of Frankfurt am Main , Germany . It is part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt I and the location of the Frankfurt train station. The name Gallus originates from

240-787: The former freight depot and marshaling yard all around Den Haager Straße, a completely new residential and retail district is currently being developed-the Europaviertel . During World War II, the Alderwerke factory was a concentration camp , using slave labour from the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp , and after the War the area was also host to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials during 1963–65. By 2019, offices, stores and apartments are to be built on

256-414: Was fitted with an ATE-Lockheed system. 1927 to 1929 Clärenore Stinnes was the first to circumnavigate the world by car, in an Adler Standard 6. In December 1930, Adler assigned the German engineer Josef Ganz , who was also editor-in-chief of Motor-Kritik magazine, as a consultant engineer. In the first months of 1931, Ganz constructed a lightweight Volkswagen prototype at Adler with a tubular chassis,

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