The Thrige 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

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 manufactured in Odense

Odense

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 between 1911 to 1917 by the Thomas B. Thrige 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

Ballot (automobile)

Ballot was a French automobile manufacturer who made cars between 1921 and 1932.The Ballot brothers, Edouard and Maurice, founded their company in 1905. Before World War I they manufactured automobile and marine engines. The company was re-founded as Etablissements Ballot SA in 1910.Edouard...

 and Daimler

Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft

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. The trucks moved to engines from White and Poppe

White and Poppe

White and Poppe was a Coventry based proprietary engine and gearbox manufacturer established in 1899 by Alfred James White and Peter August Poppe. White was a watchmaker and Poppe an engineer and together they produced precision parts for the automotive industry...

, Continental

Continental Motors Company

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 and Hercules

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.

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

Anglo-Dane

The Anglo-Dane was a Danish automobile manufactured by H. C. Fredriksen of Copenhagen from 1902 to 1917. Fredriksen began by building bicycles in the 1890s; for these he used British parts - hence the name....

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

Triangel

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brand until 1950.