Th. Klaus

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Th. Klaus
legal form
founding 1894
resolution 1899
Seat Boulogne-Billancourt
management Th. Klaus
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Th. Klaus was a French manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Th. Klaus founded the company in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1894 and began producing automobiles. The brand name was Klaus . Production ended in 1899. In total, only a few vehicles were sold.

vehicles

The first model was a tricycle with the single wheel in the front. A single-cylinder engine with 2 hp provided the drive . A four-wheel model with the same engine followed in 1897. The last model was presented in 1898. It was equipped with two engines with 2.5 HP each. One vehicle took part in the small car race from Paris to Rambouillet and back in October 1899 .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ^ Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours.