Borcharding

Borcharding & Co. GmbH appears in the record as a small Berlin motor concern founded by 1924. Its first recoverable automobile was an open two-seat three-wheeler made that year. Specialist histories preserve no original model name or mechanical specifications, and do not establish whether more than a prototype was completed, so the catalog uses the transparent German label Dreirad and leaves its engine, layout and quantity unknown. Berlin directories locate the firm at Mauerstraße 76 in 1925 and later at Potsdamer Straße 41a. By that year Borcharding was the general representative for Moll-Werke of Chemnitz. Moll had developed conventional Siemens & Halske-powered 6/30 PS and 8/40 PS cars as well as August Friedrich Görke's radically smaller Mollmobil, whose patented longitudinal box-girder carried the machinery beneath two tandem seats. The Moll-Werke entered bankruptcy in 1925 and stopped production in 1926. Borcharding then assumed the remaining small-car program and assembled several dozen Mollmobils from residual stock during 1926, probably the Mollmobil III. Sources describe early Mollmobils with approximately 164–170 cc DKW two-stroke singles and later examples with approximately 195–200 cc engines, but none proves the exact specification of every Berlin-finished chassis; the catalog therefore records the uncertainty instead of assigning a spurious displacement. The inherited batch is one Mollmobil family and does not include Moll's larger four-cylinder cars. Borcharding's automobile activity is not documented after 1926, but the company's formal dissolution date is only known as 1926 or later, so it remains unset. The complete defensible range is the 1924 Borcharding Dreirad and the 1926 Mollmobil continuation; Friedrich Borcharding's earlier Moll association is company history, not another model, and Borgward is unrelated.

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