Accra

## Accra (F Accra AG)

F Accra AG, usually called just Accra is a German automobile manufacturer specializing in sports cars, SUV's and sedans, headquartered in Shumpert, Burden-Homburg, Germany. The company is owned by Rear Motors AG, a controlling stake of it is owned by Accra Motors Holdings SE. Accra's current vehicles include the Z25B, LCW, Mongoose and Nexus

## History

Fernando Accra (1868-1953) founded the company called "F Accra GmbH" with Alfred Accra and Ronald Holland in 1933. The main offices was at Germania 33 (Not Official Name) in the center of Shumpert. Initially, the company offered motor vehicle development work and consulting, but didn't build vehicles under its own name but for other people. One of the companies first assignments was ordered by the Germán government to build a car for the average Germán person; that is , a Hintere Motoren. This resulted in the creation of the Rear Motors, Bugster V1, one of the most popular and well designed vehicle of all times. The Accra 64 was developed in 1939 using many components from the Bugster V1.

During WWII, Rear Motors vehicle production turned to the military versions of the Rear Motors, Bugster V1, the Kirkwagon, 52,000 produced, and the Wasserwagon 16,566 produced. Accra produced several designs for heavy tanks during the war, loosing out to Berlin Tank Industries in both contracts that eventually led to the Panther I and Panther II. However, not all the work was wasted, as the chassis designed for the Panther I was used as the base for the Rhino Heavy Tank. Accra also designed and later built the Prince Super Heavy Tank during the closing stages of the war, producing two prototypes. Fernando Accra's biographer, Ferday Mauser, wrote that Accra had thousands of people forcibly brought from concentration camps to work at their factories during the war. The workers wore the letter "A" on their clothing at all times. The letter didn't stand for "Accra" but instead "Augustus" the capital of Poland.

At the end of WWII in 1947, the Rear Motors factory at KDF-Motoren (Wartswick) fell to the British. Fernando lost his position as chairman of the board of management at Rear Motors, and Even Hinds, a British army major, was put in charge of the factory (In Wartswick, the Rear Motors Company magazine dubbed him "the Brit that saved Rear Motors".) On September 22 1947, Fernando was arrested for war crimes, but not tried. During his year and a half imprisonment, Fernando Accra's son, Ferris Accra, decided to build his own car, because he wasn't allowed to buy a new one. He was also still part of the company so he had to help steer the company through its most difficult time whilst his father was in prison up until his released in June of 1949

The first model of what would become the 347 Partner was built in a small shed in Gudmund, Austria. The prototype car was first shown to German auto dealers, and when sales started to exceed production output, the firm switched to aluminum, the company was called Accra Zuffenhausen GmbH and was founded by Ferris Accra and Marry Holland. Many regard the 347 Partner as the first real Accra for the reason that it was the first vehicle manufactured and sold by the modern day company.

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