{"id":13419,"date":"2019-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/tempo-mikafa-porsche-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T07:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T07:29:02","slug":"tempo-mikafa-porsche-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/tempo-mikafa-porsche-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo Mikafa Porsche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

356, 550, 901, 911, 912, 914, 924, 928, 944, 959, 964, 968, 991, 992, 993, 996, 997 – the numbering of the various Porsche models is quite common among brand fans. In addition there are some full names like Boxster, Cayman, Panamera, Cayenne, Macan or since recently also Taycan as well as more unknown numbers like 597, 718, 904, 906, 907, 908, 909, 910 or B32. But what is a Tempo Mikafa and how is this related to Porsche? We want to explore this story a little at this point. While nowadays only a few car manufacturers are known who don’t produce their engines themselves, they were much more common in the 1950s. Accordingly, there were also some small-series vehicles that used the boxer engines from the Porsche 356. But these were usually either sports cars or sporty coup\u00e9s and sedans. However, these categories don’t apply to the Tempo Mikafa.

In 1928, Vidal & Sohn Tempo-Werk GmbH was founded in Harburg\/Germany. It emerged from a coal business for which two master locksmiths in the 1920s developed a transport vehicle in order to transport the goods faster to the customers with the loading area in front of the driver and only three wheels. Soon the driver’s cab was moved in front of the loading area and these vehicles were offered in series, as there was a great demand for such transporters. The reason for this was a new law of 1928, which allowed tricycles with less than 200 cubic centimeters capacity to be operated tax-free and without a driving license in Germany. From 1933 Tempo also offered tricycles as passenger cars with two or four seats. In World War 2, the offer was changed to four-wheeled off-road vehicle with one engine per axle for the Wehrmacht. Frpm 1952 to 1957, around 280 Land Rovers followed, which were manufactured under license. At the same time, the company returned to light commercial vehicles and continued building transport tricycles until 1956. From 1949, four-wheeled busses and transporters were added for the first time, which listened to the names Matador, Wiking and Rapid. In 1955 the company started working closely with Hanomag. Both, Hanomag and Tempo, were joined under the roof of Rheinstahl Group in 1959 and in 1965 Oscar Vidal sold the last remaining shares to them, whereupon the Tempo brand, which he co-founded, finally disappeared. The tricycle’s production tools went to India, where the Bajaj-Tempo was assembled until 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n

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