AB Thulinverken was a company in

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, Sweden, founded in 1914 as Enoch Thulins Aeroplanfabrik by the airman and aircraft designer Dr. Enoch Thulin. The company became Sweden's first aircraft manufacturer. In 1920, Thulin also started manufacturing

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s, which continued until 1928. During

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, the company came into financial difficulties and was reconstructed in 1922 as ''AB Thulinverken''. The manufacturing of brake systems became a main focus of the company. In 1958, Thulinverken merged with Svenska AB Bromsregulator (founded in 1913). The remains of Thulinverken are now a part of SAB Wabco AB, which is owned by the French

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company since 2004.

Products

Aircraft

Aircraft engines

* Thulin A (air-cooled, 9-cylinder, 80 hp

Le Rhône 9C The Le Rhône 9C is a nine-cylinder Rotary engine, rotary aircraft engine produced in France by '' Société des Moteurs Le Rhône'' / Gnome et Rhône. Also known as the Le Rhône 80 hp in a reference to its nominal power rating, t ...

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, bore x stroke 105 mm x 140 mm)The Le Rhône 9C and 11F engines were manufactured under a licence acquired by Enoch Thulin from

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in 1915. They were both derived by Le Rhône from Verdet's original 7-cylinder 50 hp model 7A, with the same piston dimensions. Thulin licence-built engines apparently have a greater power output than the original manufacturer claimed, e.g. the 80 hp Le Rhône 9C mysteriously becomes the "90 hp Thulin A". * Thulin D (possibly a double-row 9C) * Thulin E (probably a copy of the water-cooled, 6-cylinder 110 hp

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. Also manufactured by

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-Vabis. * Thulin G (air-cooled, 11-cylinder, 100 hp Le Rhône 11F rotary, bore x stroke 105 mm x 140 mm)

Automobiles

* Thulin A * Thulin B

Motorcycles

* Thulin MC I * Thulin MC II * Thulin MC II

References

Notes Sources

External links

Flygplanshistoria i Landskrona 1909–1920
(in Swedish) - Thulins aircraft
Bilhistoria i Landskrona 1919–1940
(in Swedish) - Thulins motorcycles Aircraft manufacturers of Sweden Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Sweden Defunct companies based in Landskrona 1910s establishments in Malmöhus County 1914 establishments in Sweden 1958 disestablishments in Sweden 20th-century disestablishments in Malmöhus County {{portal, Companies