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Rumpler 1921-1926 - teardrop shape

Name: Rumpler Tropfen-Auto 1921
Brand: Rumpler

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Created in 2011

Text:

Roger Gloor

Photos:

Bruno von Rotz

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Deutsches Museum

Bruno von Rotz

Archiv ADAC

Deutsches Museum

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Rumpler Tropfenwagen (1922) - in the transport center of the Deutsches Museum

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Rumpler Tropfenwagen (1921) - proudly presented as a "new one" at the ASC anniversary parade in 1925

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There have been around 10,000 car brands and designers - most of which have disappeared. Rumpler can also be counted among these vanished brands. In 1921, the Tropfen-Auto was introduced - it was a sensation. However, because it was too unusual, expensive and prone to defects, only a few were sold and the funds were soon used up.

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Edmund Rumpler from Vienna worked at the Nesselsdorfer Wagenbau-Fabrik in Moravia from 1897, at Adler in Frankfurt and Spyker in Holland, among others, before founding a design office for aircraft construction in Berlin in 1908. He created the Rumpler-Taube and many other aircraft during the First World War. After their construction was banned in Germany, Rumpler turned his attention back to cars. During the war, he had already worked on the aerodynamically optimized teardrop car; it became a sensation at the 1921 Berlin Motor Show. Its chassis frame had an elliptical basic shape, tapered at the rear, which was also followed by the slim car body. Two headlights were set one above the other in the middle of the short hood, the driver sat behind a central steering wheel and the passengers were accommodated in the widest part of the car.

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