AAG (1900 automobile)

AAG, short for Allgemeine Automobil-Gesellschaft Berlin, was a German automobile company which offered only one car, a 5 hp (4 kW) voiturette designed by one Professor Klingenberg and manufactured between 1900 and 1901.

History

The trademark for the name was registered on 28 November 1899 and registered on 8 February 1900. Production ended in 1901.^[1] The company factory was bought by the politician Emil Rathenau, also the head of the AEG Group. He renamed it to the Neue Automobil Gesellschaft (NAG for short), and the company produced cars until 1934.^[2]

Further reading

• Linz, Harald H.; Schrader, Halwart, eds. (2008). Die internationale Automobilenzyklopädie: PC DVD-ROM; alle wichtigen Daten und Fakten zu 9.000 Marken; 125 Jahre Marken und Modelle (in German). München: USM. ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8.
• Georgano, Nick, ed. (2000). The Beaulieu encyclopedia of the automobile. Chicago, Ill.: Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-57958-293-7.
• Kubisch, Ulrich (1993). Deutsche Automarken von A - Z.: Alles über Außenseiter, Eintagsfliegen, Großserienhersteller und Top-Marken von der Pionierzeit bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Heel Verlag GmbH. ISBN 978-3-926917-09-6.