COUNT& PEN – year 1911

Manufacturer: count & pen, Automobilfabrik AG, Vienna, Austria

In Vienna, the Karol brothers, Franciszek and Henryk Graf, owners of a bicycle repair shop, already constructed in 1895 r. car, which was most likely the world's first front-wheel drive vehicle. Voituretta had a single-cylinder de Dion-Bouton engine with a displacement 402 cm3 i mocy 2,6 kW (3,5 KM) and a two-speed gearbox. The drive was transferred to the two front driveshafts via the drive shaft and the differential.

The first of November 1901 r. the Gräf brothers merged with former textile manufacturer Wilhelm Stift to start producing cars, wearing from 1907 r. the Spitz brand. Arnold Spitz was a Viennese car merchant, and at the same time the largest recipient of the company. The company has always specialized in the production of carefully made luxury cars, called the Austrian Rolls-Royce.

W 1911 r. company Gräf & Stift built a model equipped with a 4-cylinder engine, with displacement 5,8 liter and power 23,5 kW (32 KM) by 1400 RPM. The car has gained a sad fame in the world. In day 28 June 1914 r. in that double phaeton the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Ferdinand, was shot dead in Sarajevo. Car to 1916 r. it was owned by Emperor Franz Joseph.

After the First World War, a new and interesting Gräf model appeared on the market & Stift - one of the largest cars of the time - 6-cylinder overhead valve engine with displacement 7,8 liter developed power 80,9 kW (110 KM) by 2400 RPM. A novel peculiarity was the use of two Zenith carburettors. A huge car with a pointed radiator and wooden spoked wheels had a curb weight 2000 kg. It was only in the early 1930s that the SP type had greater power 8. New model, with a distinctive lion - the mark of the Gräf brand & Stift - on the radiator, already had an 8-cylinder engine developing power 92,5 kW (125 KM). The curb weight of the car was 2500 kg.

From 1938 r. the company limited itself to the production of trucks.