Frese & Co.

Frese & Co.
legal form
founding	1896
resolution	?
Seat	St. Petersburg
management	Pyotr Alexandrovich Frese
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Frese & Co. ( Russian Фрезе и К ° ) was a Russian manufacturer of automobiles and trucks .

Company history

Pyotr Alexandrovich Frese

Frese fire engine from 1904

Frese truck from 1904

Pyotr Alexandrowitsch Frese (1844–1918) founded a company in 1874 to manufacture horse-drawn carriages. In 1876 the company was merged with Karl Nellis' horse-drawn carriage workshop. The new company was called Nellis and Frese . In 1893 the company was in Frese & Co. renamed. From December 1, 1899, the company was converted into a public limited company.

In 1896 the first Russian automobile, the Jakowlew & Frese , was built in collaboration with Yevgeny Alexandrowitsch Jakowlew . 1902 began the production of automobiles with the brand name Frese . Automobile production ended in 1904. Another source gives the construction time of the passenger car between 1900 and 1908 and that of the commercial vehicle until 1914. As a body manufacturer, the company still existed after 1904.

vehicles

Passenger cars

The company only produced one type of passenger car. A single cylinder engine from De Dion-Bouton provided the drive . The engine developed 8 HP from a displacement of 864 cm³ . The curb weight was given as 600 kg. The open body shape tonneau offered space for four people. In 1903 there were experiments with electric vehicles.

commercial vehicles

The trucks with one ton payload were also powered by a built-in engine from De Dion-Bouton. The engine output is specified with either 6 or 8 HP. With a wheelbase of 222 cm, the vehicle length was 320 cm and the vehicle height was 162 cm. 20 of these were made. In 1902 four of these vehicles took part in war maneuvers near Kursk . In addition, a Charabanc , an open bus , was built in 1903 on a commercial vehicle chassis .

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
Michael Dünnebier, Eberhard Kittler: Passenger cars of socialist countries. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00382-8 .
Maurice A. Kelly: Russian Motor Vehicles. The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917. Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2009, ISBN 978-1-84584-213-0 . (English)

Web links

GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on February 9, 2016)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Kelly: Russian Motor Vehicles. The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917.
↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
↑ Dünnebier, Kittler: Passenger Cars of Socialist Countries.

[Russian_Motor_Vehicles-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Kelly: Russian Motor Vehicles. The Czarist Period 1784 to 1917.

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-2] Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[Personenkraftwagen_sozialistischer_Länder-3] Dünnebier, Kittler: Passenger Cars of Socialist Countries.