Dürkopp was a German producer of buses.
They built bus chassis from 1902.
Only the early models were sold in Britain.
The North Eastern Railway had a fleet of over 15.
Hastings ran a few before their operator went bankrupt.
Dürkopp was like a number of other makers of motorcars in that the firm’s origins were as manufacturers of sewing machines, made from the 1860s onwards at Bielefeld in Westphalia. Bicycles were soon added to the product range and motorcars were first made in 1898. These were very similar to Panhard-Levassor cars both in layout and appearance and it is therefore somewhat ironic that between 1899 and 1901 the Société anonyme des Automobiles Canello-Dürkopp built Dürkopp cars in the Paris suburb of Corbevoie.