Anglo-Dane
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The Anglo-Dane was a Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 automobile
Automobile
An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

 manufactured by H. C. Fredriksen of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 from 1902 to 1917. Fredriksen began by building bicycles in the 1890s; for these he used British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 parts - hence the name.

The first cars were light trucks with single-cylinder Belgian Kelecom engines. Later cars were produced with an own design single-cylinder 4-5 hp
Horsepower
Horsepower is the name of several units of measurement of power. The most common definitions equal between 735.5 and 750 watts.Horsepower was originally defined to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses in continuous operation. The unit was widely adopted to measure the...

 engines; these featured friction drive
Friction drive
A friction Drive or friction engine is a type of transmission that, instead of a chain and sprockets, uses 2 wheels in the transmission to transfer power to the driving wheels. This kind of transmission is often used on scooters, mainly go-peds, in place of a chain.An example of this system is in...

 using double discs to give an equivalent 12 speed transmission. A few passenger cars were also built with twin-cylinder engines before the company merged with Jan and Thrige
Thrige (automobile)
The Thrige was a Danish automobile manufactured in Odense between 1911 to 1917 by the Thomas B. Thrige company .The company was founded in 1894 and made electric motors....

 who made Triangel
Triangel
Triangel may refer to:* Sassenburg-Triangel, a village near Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany* A misspelling of triangle, the geometric shape...

commercials until 1945. About 70 Anglo-Danes were made.
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