Atelier Automobile GmbH and the HTW Berlin

Thanks to the teaching assignment of our managing director Dipl.-Ing. Roland Kayser as a lecturer in the history of the automotive industry and automotive engineering at the HTW Berlin (University of Applied Sciences), we can draw on the expertise and technical facilities of the university for particularly tricky problems. For example, we can write term papers, bachelor’s or master’s theses (formerly diploma theses).

Our collaboration with the HTW has many advantages, both for the HTW and for us. Our managing director Mr. Kayser takes a different classic car to the university for each lecture and the car is examined in detail by the students in the laboratory. To ensure that Mr. Kayser does not always take only French and Swedish classic cars with him, the other companies in the Meilenwerk support him and so he can also fall back on vehicles of other makes. However, he has often changed the automotive world view of budding German automotive engineers by presenting innovative French vehicles such as the Citroën Traction Avant, Citroën DS, Citroën SM, Peugeot 402, Peugeot 204, Panhard 24 BT, Facel Vega Facel III, Facel Vega FV4. “I always thought the French were just rebuilding. In your lecture, I learned that French vehicle construction is one of the most innovative of all”. Conversations with a similar context are not uncommon.

Thanks to the cooperation with the HTW, Atelier Automobile GmbH employees have the opportunity to look at tests that mechanics rarely have access to. This also includes crash tests on the crash track that the HTW shares with the TU Berlin.

Link to HTW Berlin: www.htw-berlin.de