Fischer 1908-1914 - The art of invention and the pusher motor
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There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of them have disappeared. One of these vanished brands is Fischer, founded in 1908 and successful until 1914. Martin Fischer, an ingenious Swiss car designer, came from Turicum and founded his own brand, which excelled in particular with advanced slide valve engines.
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Martin Fischer (1867-1947) was one of the most ingenious Swiss car designers, and he actually worked in Switzerland. Originally a watchmaker, his talent predestined him to invent pioneering technical solutions in various fields. These included a friction gear, which made it possible to dispense with the complex gearwheel power transmissions, and the removable wheel. After designing Turicum brand cars from 1904 to 1908, Martin Fischer founded a new company in Zurich under his own name. For the development and manufacture of further models, he gained the silk merchant H. Spörri as a financier and the Weidmann & Co. factory as a production facility. Initially, lightweight four-cylinder cars with friction gears were produced there. However, Martin Fischer worked on a revolutionary power transmission with internal gearing, and also in 1910, he presented a slider engine. Both were installed in Fischer carriages from the following year.
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