The Thrige was a

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manufactured in Odense between 1911 and 1917 by the Thomas B. Thrige company (now T-T Electric). The company was founded in 1894 and made

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Vehicles

The first vehicles were electrically powered

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s coming from the company's background in electric motor manufacture.

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manufacture followed using 4-cylinder engines from Ballot and

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. The trucks moved to engines from

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, Continental and Hercules. The 1914 car used a 12 hp Ballot engine driving the rear axle through a three-speed gearbox. There was no differential on the rear axle.

Merger

In 1918, the automobile manufacturing part of the Thomas B. Thrige company merged with

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and

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to form De forenede Automobilfabrikker A/S. No more cars were made, the new company manufacturing mainly buses under the Triangel brand until 1950.

References

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