Cyklon 6-hp Cyklonette

An unorthodox yet successful car that remains in production for twenty years with virtually no changes.

Cyklon from Berlin produced motorcycles but in 1902 it introduced a three-wheeler at a car show in Leipzig. The engine was mounted on top of the front wheel, which it drove by chain. The ‘Cyklonette’ was available both as a passenger car and as a light van. The first model had a 450 cc single-cylinder engine, but later larger models, of which this is an example, were equipped with a 1.3-litre twin-cylinder engine. The Cyklonette was manufactured until 1922, over a period when most three-wheelers had already disappeared from the scene.