Spyker
Sign in to saveSpyker or Spijker was a Dutch carriage, automobile and aircraft manufacturer, started in 1880 by blacksmiths Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker. Originally located in Hilversum, the company relocated to Trompenburg, Amsterdam in 1898.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Spyker
- Company.logo
- Spyker Cars logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 250px
- Company.logo_caption
- The logo merging a spoke-wheel and an aircraft propeller was adopted ca. 1915
- Company.founder
- Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker
- Company.fate
- Bankruptcy
- Company.location
- Netherlands
- Company.industry
- AutomotiveAviation
- Company.key_people
- Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker, founders
- Company.products
- hand-built coaches, carriages, cars and airplanes
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- 110 ans de l'automobile au Grand Palais - Spyker 60 CV 4 roues motrices - 1903 03.jpg
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- Commons category
- Spyker vehicles
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1926-00-00
- inception
- 1880-00-00
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- History
- License production and auto rental
- Car models
- Aircraft
- Spyker on stamps and in film
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Spyker or Spijker was a Dutch carriage, automobile and aircraft manufacturer, started in 1880 by blacksmiths Jacobus and Hendrik-Jan Spijker. Originally located in Hilversum, the company relocated to Trompenburg, Amsterdam in 1898.
Notable products of Spyker were building the Golden Coach for state ceremonial use for the Dutch royalty in 1898. In 1903, the Spyker 60 HP race-car was the world's first F4 layout, four-wheel drive car, featuring the first application of a six-cylinder engine, as well as the first four-wheel braking system. The 1919 C1 “Aerocoque” was one of the world's first cars with aerodynamically streamlined bodywork.