Frisbie-Hoeft Company

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Frisbie Motor Company
Frisbie-Hoeft Company
legal form Company
founding 1902
resolution 1920s
Seat Middletown , Connecticut , USA
management Russell Abner Frisbie
Branch Automobiles

Frisbie-Hoeft Company , previously Frisbie Motor Company , was an American manufacturer of automobiles and engines .

Company history

Russell Abner Frisbie was part of the Frisbie family who ran the Frisbie Pie Company and later became known for Frisbee . He ran in 1900 a small shop for bicycles in Cromwell in Connecticut . There he manufactured a motor vehicle . In September 1900, when it was almost finished, it was already reported on. Frisbie denied plans for series production in December 1900. The vehicle was for personal use.

In 1902 he founded the Frisbie Motor Company in Middletown , Connecticut. He mainly made engines for land vehicles and boats . In addition, six automobiles were built by 1909. The brand name was Frisbie . In 1909 the company was already operating as the Frisbie-Hoeft Company .

During the First World War , the company manufactured components for aircraft . After the war, Frisbie sold the company. Nevertheless, he continued to take care of the servicing of his engines, which were installed in many fishing boats in the area. In the 1920s, Frisbie made mechanical toys. He died in 1968.

vehicles

The first vehicle is dated 1901. It had a two - cylinder four-stroke engine . It was an open runabout with two seats and four wheels. The front of the vehicle was designed so that no engine could be accommodated there. The engine was either under the seat or in the rear of the vehicle. Was steered with a steering wheel . The vehicle still exists.

The second vehicle with a similar engine was probably built around 1902.

In April 1905 it was reported that Frisbie had completed two six-cylinder engines. One drove a touring car . The other was delivered to A. Bruce Tucker for a motorboat.

Other vehicles followed.

The last vehicle was built in 1909. In June it was tested on the streets. It had a four-cylinder engine .

literature

  • Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 616 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 594 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beverly Rae Kimes, Henry Austin Clark Jr .: Standard catalog of American Cars. 1805-1942. Digital edition . 3. Edition. Krause Publications, Iola 2013, ISBN 978-1-4402-3778-2 , pp. 616 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 1: A-F . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 594 (English).