Vehicle factory Thomas Bohrer

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Vehicle factory Thomas Bohrer
legal form
founding 1871
resolution 1908
Seat Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , Austria-Hungary
management Thomas Bohrer
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Drill from 1901
Drill from 1901

The vehicle factory Thomas Bohrer was a manufacturer of automobiles from Austria-Hungary .

Company history

Master blacksmith Thomas Bohrer senior founded a workshop for agricultural equipment and wagons in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in 1871 . In 1900 his son Alfred Bohrer visited the Paris World Exhibition . In 1901 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Bohrer . In the winter of 1906, production ended after eight copies had been made.

vehicles

The first vehicle was used by a single cylinder engine of De Dion-Bouton 4 PS driven performance, Alfred drill in 1900 Paris acquired. The transmission had two gears. The vehicle frame was made of ash wood . In 1903 the vehicle was fitted with a Fafnir-Werke engine with 6 hp and magneto ignition and a three-speed gearbox. In 1904 this vehicle was the first automobile to cross the Loiblpass and the Katschberg in both directions. When license plates were introduced in Austria-Hungary in 1906 , this vehicle received the license plate F 6 . In 1908 the vehicle was given a racing car body. It still exists today and is exhibited in the Historama Ferlach in Ferlach .

literature

Web links

Commons : Drill  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .