What is it? Quiz #482

it is a GRADE, Typ F1, from 1922-1924, 2zylinder, 808 ccm, 16 PS

My guess is Austro-Grade 1923-1926 produced in Klosterneuburg, Austria, a subsidiary of Grade Automobilfabrik of Bork bei Brück, Germany.
Grade was founded in 1920 by aviation pioneer Hans Grade.
The cars were small units with with an air-cooled two-cylinder two-stroke engine with 808 cc and 16 hp. The power was transmitted to one rear wheel through a friction gear and a chain. The 2 and 4-seater cars had unitary bodies (no chassis).
In contrast to Grade, the Austro-Grade had worm steering.
Austro-Grade closed in 1926 and Grade in 1927.

Links:
Wikipedia
https://www.escuderia.com/el-coche-de-hans-grade/
http://www.voz.co.at/VKMA/Div-a-d/austro-grade.html
http://www.allcarindex.com/main-index/car-make-details/Austria-Austro-Grade/

Dear prewarcar-team,
here my solution.

Grade F 2 1922-1925, built in Bork / Brandenburg by Grade Automobilwerke AG, developed by former aircraft designer Hans Grade. Lightweight with self-supporting body and RWD, selfconstructed 2T-two-cylinder-inline-engine (808 cc, 14-16 hp) from its own development, friction gear, belt-drive, electric starter and lighting, cable-steering, in 1924 costing 3,000 RM.
1923-1926 built as by the subsidiary "Austro-Grade" in Klosterneuburg/Austria with worm-drive-steering.
The pictured car comes from an early series: laterally hanging roof attached in longitudinal axis.
In the 20s my deceased neighbor Richard "borrowed" as a 13-year-old a Grade in the next village, stopped after a 10 miles-ride by a policeman.

Best regards from the Nahe-valley
Fritz

Sources:
Wikipedia
Nice talks with my neighbor in the 90s

Grade. Automobilwerke A.G. Bork (Post Brück in der Mark)
one cylinder two stroke engine 500 cc, 9 hp..The Grade car was introduced on the Berlin carshow of 1921.
Source: Ahnen unser Autos, by Paul Gräntz und Peter Kirchberg

Was behoorlijk moelijk dit keer, maar na 254 blad zijden in de encyclopaedia of motorcars was het probleem opgelost, het is een GRADE 1924 type F2 3/16ps two -seater. Dit wetende was verder zoeken niet moeilijk , er staat een hele mooie rood creme als 1922 er in het Deutsches Technik Museum met een tweetact tweecilinder met ketting aandrijving op de achterwielen. De Grade Automobilwerk AG in Bork bei Bruçk was ook bekend als vliegtuig bouwer, en dat klopt wel, als je de foto's in het museum bekijkt zijn er alleen nog maar een paar vleugels nodig.

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I think this cycle car could be an Austro-Grade, an austrian cycle car based on the German Grade, build beetween 1923 to 1926 by Austro-Grade AG, in Kleusterneuburg, Austria, Under license of the german Grade.
The engine was an air-cooled 2 cylinder 2 stroke 808 cc.

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I think this cyclecar could be an Austro-Grade 4/16 PS (hp), made by Austro-Grade AG, in Klosterneuburg, in Austria beetween 1923 to 1926 Under license of the German Grade.
It was an air cooled 2-cylinder 2 stroke 808 cc engine.

A tricky one! I think it's a Grade, most likely a 4/16 PS model, a German car from the early 1920s. Manufactured in Bork bei Bruck near Berlin. Grade Automobilwerke AG was founded by pioneer aviator Hans Grade in 1921. An advanced car for the time with chassis-less construction and a two stroke aircooled twin cylinder engine, features that probably came from Hans' aircraft design knowledge. The cars emblem commemorates his flying exploits and aircraft manufacturing featuring a small monoplane in a circle. around 2000 cars were built by Grade before the company closed in 1927.

Sources:
The Complete Encyclopedia of Automobiles 1885 to the Present. G.N.Georgano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Grade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_Automobilwerke
http://www.allcarindex.com/main-index/car-make-details/Germany-Grade/
https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2016-45/bd444-33387

Hello,

The car pictured is a GRADE KLEINWAGEN 4/16 PS, the brainchild of German aviation pioneer Hans Grade (1879-1946) and built between 1922 and 1927 in a factory at Bork/Kyritz in Brandenburg. The small two-seater was powered by a two-cylinder two-stroke engine. An interestung feature was the unibody design.
Source: Werner Oswald, Deutsche Autos 1920 - 1945, published 1977.

Kind regards,
Heribert Hofner
Innstrasse 2
D-95445 Bayreuth
Germany

I think this is "Grade F2" (built between 1922 and 1925 from "Grade Automobilwerke AG Bork (Post Brück in der Mark")
This second version had electric front headlights; first version Grade F1 (built 1921) without electric lights).
2 cylinder-2 stroke engine, 4/14 HP, capacity 808 cm³
Hans Grade was a German Flight Pioneer (1909 he won the "Lanz Preis der Lüfte" - 50.000 Reichsmark); 1903 he built his first motorcycle, two years later he found the "Grade Motorwerke GmbH Magdeburg".
1921 he found the Hans Grade Werke GmbH Bork, AG since July 1921. Production ended 1928.
(source: Gränz/Kirchberg "Ahnen unserer Autos", third edition, transpress Berlin 1980)

The car on the photo is a Grade F2. The F2 was built between 1922 - 1924. The Grade was constructed by Hans Grade, one of the aircraft pioneers in Germany. He was the first German to fly with his self built aeroplane. He started building two stroke engines and motorbikes in Magdeburg. Before he began to manufacture light aeroplanes at Bork near Berlin. After the kaiser war he was not allowed anymore to produce aircrafts anymore.So he designed a car, which was totally different to anything else. The body consisted of a steel tub in which the engine and all the ancillaries including seats where situated. The upper half of the body was a tub, too with only openings for the doors, bonnet and boot. In fact an all steel monocoque body.
The engine was a two cylinder. two stroke engine with 808 cc, The Grade had friction drive and from the friction drive a chain to the right gearwheel. the engine developed 16 hp. The car was built before the end of 1924, because the hood lies on the left side From fall 24 the hood was in a normal position in the back. The advertising for the Grade said, whereas a normal car has 2000 parts, the Grade has 300. Around 2000 Grade where built.
Source: Hans Grade Ingenieur-Flugpionier-Automobilbauer from Karl Dieter Seiffert, Luxus u. Leistung Festschrift für Michael Graf Wolff Metternich, article by Thomas Ulrich, Deutsche Autos Werner Oswald

Grade sportwagen mit Reibradantrieb aus borkheide

This is a Austo-Grade buildt from 1923 to 26 in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. made under licence from the german Grade Werke, tecnically identical to the german version apart from steering (worm and nut). 2 cylinder 2 stroke, 808ccm and 16hp. No gearbox as the drive was via friction disk wich allowed forward and backwards the same speed. All you had to do was move the little friction roll across the big disk, depending of the distance of the center you choose the speed. Final drive was via chain to the right rear wheel, no differential. Unibody construction, no chassis. Liquidation of Austro Grade in August 1926 closely followed by Grade Automobilfabrik AG in 1927.
kind regards -Thomas from Tyrol!

The picture shows a Grade-Wagen 4/16 hp (Typ F2) from 1922. This little Car wars built in Germany..

Austro Grade F 2 1925 or 26. Very similar to the German Grade, but for the shape of the fenders.
The Austro-Grade was built in Klosterneuburg near Vienna between 1922 and 1926. It was an Offspring of Grade Automobilfabrik in Bork, Germany. The little cars were powered by an air cooled 2 cyl. 2 stroke engine of 808 ccm and 16 HP. Transmission by friction gearbox and chain to the right wheel only, no diff.

Austro-Grade built in Klosterneuburg near Vienna. The Company was founded i March 1923, the mother-company in Germany already three year earlier by flight pioneer Hans Grade. Quite popular in Germany before the big facturers became interested in the baby car.
The monocoque construction of a small car was its most innovative feature. The engine was an air-cooled twin of 808 cm3 capacity, giving 16 horsepowers. One of the last motorcars to have friction drive, hence no clutch or differential. It differed from the German original by having worm and sector steering. My source even speaks of only the right back wheel powered...
Austro-Grade Automobilfabrik AG went into liquidation in 1926,

http://www.voz.co.at/VKMA/Div-a-d/austro-grade.html

The Austro-Grade Automobilfabrik AG in Klosterneuburg near Vienna was founded on March 30, 1923. It was the Austrian branch of the German Grade car factory founded by the Aviator Hans Grade in 1920. The vehicles largely corresponded the models of the German branch. It was boat-shaped with a self-supporting body, an air-cooled two-cylinder two-stroke engine with 808 cc 16 HP engine. Power was transferred using a friction gear and open roller chain to the right rear wheel, worm steering and cable brakes, electric light and starter system. The Austrian company ceased in 1926 and the German branch closed in 1927.