Thrige (automobile)

The Thrige was a Danish automobile manufactured in Odense between 1911 to 1917 by the Thomas B. Thrige cite book |last=Georgano |first=N. |title=Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile |year=2000 |publisher=HMSO |location=London |id=ISBN 1-57958-293-1] company (now T-T Electric).

The company was founded in 1894 and made electric motors.

The first vehicles were electrically powered trucks coming from the company's background in electric motor manufacture. Car manufacture followed using 4 cylinder engines from Ballot and Daimler. The trucks moved to engines from White and Poppe, 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.

In 1918 they automobile manufacturing part of the Thomas B. Thrige company merged with Anglo-Dane and JAN to form De forenede Automobilfabrikker A/S. No more cars were made, the new company manufacturing mainly buses under the Triangel brand until 1950.

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