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The bicycle manufacturer Jakob Oswald Hoffmann from Lintorf near Düsseldorf had 1949 built the Italian motor scooter Vespa for Germany License and thus gained overnight wealth, fame and market presence. In the spring of 1954, he violently therefore tried to get the Germany license for the Italian ISO Isetta. Because negotiated but was already ISO with BMW, Hoffmann for the construction of the Penguin small car interested. However, he remained in the prototype stage. Therefore, Hoffmann built an other Isetta without further ADO. Be mobile, which he "Auto cab 250" baptized, had a similar shape, but instead of the front door side doors, because Hoffmann could not experience bring, whether the front door to the Isetta was patented, but it was assumed. His car had two child seats in the rear next to the front seat. In its standard version, Hoffmann's car had a rear-stopped, right side door and a fabric hood, in a planned luxury version, it should be even two side doors. Also a proper dashboard was possible thanks to the stationary front. In contrast to the ISO Isetta, the Hoffmann cabin offered the coveted changed for the four-speed gearbox and a longer-running rear with cooling air inlet under the rear window. The Hoffmann auto cabin had the following dimensions: 2.28 x 1.39 x 1.35 m. wheelbase 1.65 m (ISO / BMW Isetta 1.50 m). Track width front 1.22 m, rear 0, 52 m. empty weight 350 kg. The wheels were hanging in front on deferred Längsschwingarmen, the two closely related together rear wheels on a small axle with Halbelliptikfedern. The rear wheels were not fully streamlined, the headlights were deep. The "Hoffmann-car-cab 250" wore the cylinder-four-stroke Boxer engine developed in Lintorf 298 displacement and 18.5 HP at 5400 RPM which was used also in the Hoffmann motorcycle Governor with cardan shaft in the rear cc. In the cab, the engine was centrally before the two rear wheels, which were together with a rail gauge of 520 mm. The cabin was specified with a top speed of 85 km/h and a consumption of 3.8 l / 100 km.Already on 2 June 1954, while BMW was still the production preparations for the Isetta, Hoffmann showed a prototype of his cabin of the public. August 1, 1954 BMW and ISO submitted together a lawsuit against Hoffmann at the District Court of Munich. It was based on the passage "slavish imitation" and utility model rights. However, began in Lintorf late August / early September 1954 the delivery of the first cabins of all 113 examples were built until February 1955.As the Vespa sales had fallen drastically, Hoffmann felt forced to build the cabin to do so. For Jakob Oswald Hoffmann it was even thicker. The Piaggio works had cancelled the Vespa license him, because he had made improvements on their own. As a result, Hoffmann's house bank announced all loans. At the end of 1954, Hoffmann works closed their doors, even before the Isetta process to an end was. BMW got Hoffmann to 20 percent to 80 percent right. BMW and Hoffmann parted amicably, he got even a BMW 501 V8 to leave to the gift. His workers but got their reward no longer, they then plundered the factory. The receiver had more cabins out of existing parts. A whole series of 350 kg cabins were sold in 1956 to rock-bottom prices in the surrounding area of Düsseldorf.
