Brutsch Fahrzeugbau was a German designer and automaker in Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg. He designed and built numerous micro cars. He normally built several cars of a new design and then made an effort to sell a license to other companies to actually produce them in large numbers. Between 1952 through 1958 Brutsch manufactured eleven different models but only a total of eighty-one cars were built. The cars usually had body designs that consisted of two polyester and fiberglass molded pieces bonded together at a center seam.
The example shown is the Zwerg. It carried two people and was powered by a Fichtel & Sachs single cylinder engine displacing 191cc (75 cubic inches). Power was delivered through a four speed manual gearbox. Top speed was 85km/hr (53mph). Twelve of the Zwerg were produced at the time and only four still exist in England.
Additional information on Brutsch can be found on Wikipedia.
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