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Goliath GD 750 and Goli - Tricycle mule for Aunt Emma

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Created on August 1, 1984

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Ulrich Kubisch

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Goliath GD 750 (1950) - as a mobile sales stand

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Goliath GD 750 (1951) - on the road for Möbel Hoppe

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Goliath GD750 (1952) - for the rolling fish trade

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Goliath GD 750 (1953) - in various configurations

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Goliath Goli (1958) - more comfortable and stronger

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Goliath GD 750 (1954) - advertises for Bosch - 20th ASC Classic-Gala Schwetzingen 2024

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Goliath Goli flatbed trailer (1955) - with two-stroke engine and 398 cm3 - payload 750 kg! - Bremen Classic Motorshow 2019

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Goliath Pritsche (1959) - Three-wheel transporter with 2-cylinder 2-stroke engine - Classic-Gala Schwetzingen 2020

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Goliath tricycle with impressive payload - Older Classics June 2021 at Motorworld Kemptthal

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Goliath tricycle in front of the halls - at the St. Gallen classic car fair

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Goliath Goli three-wheeler Prische (1955) - Commercial vehicle on three wheels - 19th ASC Classic-Gala Schwetzingen 2023

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Goliath GD 750 - the Bremen tricycle - at the Bremen Classic Motorshow 2014

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Goliath Pionier (1933) - already on the road with three wheels before the war

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Goliath record-breaking car (1953) - shown in the truck hall at the IAA Frankfurt 1953

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Goliath record-breaking car (1954) - view-through drawing

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Summary

The GD 750 three-wheel delivery van (and its successor Goli) was the greatest success of the Borgward subsidiary Goliath. It made them all mobile: the milkman, the fishmonger, the carpenter and the glazier. And it was extremely cheap to maintain. This report tells its story and shows the tricycle in pictures and in the sales brochure of the time.

This article contains the following chapters

Undemanding packhorse
Indestructible even in Mexico
Rolling sales stand
Market leader and failures

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

Goliath Werk GmbH was the David within the Borgward group of companies. The company's first - and practically only - resounding success came shortly after the currency reform with the unpretentious Goliath three-wheeler. The original and versatile delivery vehicle was perfect for replacing the horse in small businesses and the retail trade. Perhaps the most pleasant consequence: the proud Goliath owner, who had replaced his horses with the nippy cart, could now sleep a few hours longer in the morning. After all, there was no need for feeding and the time-consuming harnessing. Carl F. W. Borgward could look back on many years of experience in the construction of three-wheeled vehicles. After the end of the great inflation in 1924, he had already launched his three-wheeled "Blitzkarren". Why shouldn't this principle, which had proved its worth in bad times, also be good after the currency reform of 1948 - designed, of course, in line with the latest technical standards and manufacturing possibilities.

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