Product description
The book will introduce you to the history of the Liberec engineering factory Ch. Linser, which at the beginning of the 20th century was the first in Austria-Hungary to produce a car – a voiturette with a four-cylinder engine. The production of motorcycles and cars lasted only a short time in the company, but it continued to cooperate with a number of automobile companies and after the war became a foundry of the LIAZ company.
During the 19th century, North Bohemia developed into a rich industrial region with its center in Liberec. In addition to the key textile industry, the field of mechanical engineering also began to develop soon. The Christian Linser company became one of the important companies in this sector. Its founder came to Bohemia from Tyrol as a journeyman coppersmith and settled in Liberec in 1858, where he built a significant factory from a small workshop that produced various boilers and distribution equipment for the textile and food industries. In addition to this production, it also dealt with firefighting equipment.
In 1896, Christian's son Rudolf Linser, a technically educated young man who had already been involved in motoring issues in the 1890s, took over the management of the company. Under his leadership, the company began developing and producing motorcycles at the beginning of the 20th century, and at the turn of 1905 and 1906, the first automobile – the voituretta – rolled out of the company's design workshop, the first car with a four-cylinder engine in the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time. Although the production of motor vehicles at the Linsers ended in 1907, the foundry branch of the plant developed into an important foundry for the motor industry not only in Bohemia, but also in Austria and Germany.
The economic crisis of the 1930s ended the Linser business in Liberec and after the end of World War II the family was first relocated to Germany and then returned to Tyrol, where Rudolf Linser, already eighty years old, was still involved in motoring. The focus of this book, however, is the role of the Ch. Linser company in the beginnings of motoring in Bohemia in the first years of the twentieth century.
Grada Publishing House, hardcover, format 16.5 x 23.5 cm, 192 pages.
ISBN 978-80-271-3860-9.
