Thiem & Company

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Thiem & Company
legal form Company
founding 1897 or earlier
resolution 1910
Seat Saint Paul , Minnesota , USA
management Edward A. Thiem
Branch Engines , vehicles

Thiem & Company was an American manufacturer of engines and vehicles .

Company history

The company was based in Saint Paul , Minnesota . The earliest known record is from April 3, 1897. A second source confirms 1897. At the time, it was making bicycles . Gasoline engines were added around 1900 . In 1901 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Thiem . Automobile production ended in 1903.

The Virtue & Pound Manufacturing Company from Owatonna , Minnesota took over the production rights and the machines for a certain engine type in early 1903 and continued the production of these engines and some cars until 1904 while maintaining the brand name.

Thiem & Company started producing motorcycles in 1903 and continued to manufacture engines. In 1910 the company was dissolved. Another source names the Thiem Manufacturing Company from 1905 onwards .

Edward Thiem then founded Joerns-Thiem Motor Car Company and Joerns-Thiem Motor Company together with Fred Joerns . There was also the Joerns Motor Manufacturing Company .

Motor vehicles

The vehicles had a single cylinder - petrol engine . The engine power was low. The superstructures were simple motorized buggies.

For 1903 engines with 3 HP power have been handed down.

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. 1463 (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. 1463 (English).
  2. ↑ Marián Šuman-Hreblay: Automobile Manufacturers Worldwide Registry . McFarland & Company, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0972-3 , pp. 281 (English).
  3. ↑ Sporting Life, April 3, 1897 (PDF; accessed March 30, 2019)
  4. ↑ a b G. Wayne Walker Jr .: Mystery Inverted Engine On: www.farmcollector.com from March 2000. (English, accessed on March 30, 2019)