Lende Automobile Manufacturing Company

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Lende Automobile Manufacturing Company
legal form Company
founding 1907
resolution 1909
Seat Granite Falls , Minnesota , USA
management Olaus loin
Branch Automobiles

Lende Automobile Manufacturing Company was an American manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Olaus Lende was an electrical engineer at Granite Falls , Minnesota . From 1902 he manufactured individual automobiles. The brand name was loin . It was not until 1907 that he officially founded the vehicle production company in the same city. Production ended in 1909. A total of 17 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first vehicle had a two-cylinder engine , chain drive and a touring car body. Ole Swenson was the buyer. Two similar vehicles followed.

The next vehicles had an air-cooled four-cylinder engine .

From 1907 to 1909, a model with a four-cylinder engine with 30 hp , planetary gear and cardan drive was on the price lists for $ 1,800 .

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. 857 (English).
  • George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 889 (English).

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. 857 (English).
  2. ↑ George Nicholas Georgano (Ed.): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile . Volume 2: G-O . Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , pp. 889 (English).