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Weight makes you ill - Interview with Dr. Emil Enzmann

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Created on November 16, 2011

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Bernhard Brägger

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Drawing of little Emil Enzmann, long before he became a country doctor and later designed the Enzmann 506

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Dr. Emil Enzmann, country doctor and designer of the Enzmann 506, born in 1921

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Emil Enzmann, born in 1900, father of Dr. Emil Enzmann, the designer of the Enzmann 506 - here on a Ford A at a hill climb in the 1940s

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Enzmann 506 (1950) - first sketches on a calendar page

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Enzmann 506 (1958) - Selection of Enzmann sports cars in front of the Enzmann garage in Schüpfheim

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Enzmann 506 (1957) - the number 1 is finished

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Enzmann 506 (1960) - three Enzmanns in different colors combined

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Enzmann 506 (1958) - at the 1958 Geneva Motor Show

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Enzmann 506 (1957) - the exhibition specimen at the IAA in Frankfurt - the impact cushion and the card holder are clearly visible

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Summary

On November 26, 2011, Dr. Emil Enzmann - the designer of the Enzmann 506 - turns 90 years old. In an unusual interview, Emil Enzmann recalls the time when he, his father and his five brothers realized the idea of a modern road-going sports car in Schüpfheim, Entlebuch. The country doctor was not only a pioneer in design and lightweight construction, his Enzmann 506 also contained a wealth of ideas for passive accident prevention. This report retells the interview; dialect expressions have been adapted only minimally.

This article contains the following chapters

Very light as a feather
Aluminum versus polyester
Just 50 kg less to brake - you can feel it!
The fairy tale about the chassis from Germany
Passive safety

Estimated reading time: 8min

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On November 26, 2011, Dr. Emil Enzmann - the designer of the Enzmann 506 - turns 90 years old. In an unusual interview, Emil Enzmann recalls the time when he, his father and his five brothers realized the idea of a modern road-going sports car in Schüpfheim, Entlebuch. The country doctor was not only a pioneer in design and lightweight construction, but his Enzmann 506 was also full of ideas for passive accident prevention. Note: In order to reproduce the conversation verbatim, the past tense - the perfect tense - commonly used in Swiss dialect is used. The Swiss dialect does not know the past tense (the previous). Dialect expressions are marked by quotation marks.

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