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Saurer
Sign in to saveAdolph Saurer AG was a Swiss manufacturer of embroidery and textile machines, trucks and buses under the Saurer and Berna (beginning in 1929) brand names. Based in Arbon, Switzerland, the firm was active between 1903 and 1982. Their vehicles were widely used across mainland Europe, particularly in the interwar period.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Adolph Saurer AG
- Company.logo
- Saurer logo.png
- Company.type
- Public company
- Company.fate
- Merged with Franz Brozincevic & Cie into Nutzfahrzeuggesellschaft Arbon & Wetzikon (NAW)
- Company.successor
- Saurer AG
- Company.foundation
- 1903
- Company.defunct
- 1982
- Company.location_city
- Arbon (TG)
- Company.location_country
- Switzerland
- Company.key_people
- Franz Saurer
- Company.industry
- Automotive,Military
- Company.products
- Motor vehicles
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Aero engines
- NAW
- The textile and automotive spin-offs
- Oerlikon Textile
- Oerlikon-Saurer ''"Graziano Trasmissioni"''
- Models
- Buses
- Trolleybus
- Military Vehicles
- Saurer F006
- Gallery of Saurer, Berna and NAW vehicles
- See also
- Sources & References
- External links
Adolph Saurer AG was a Swiss manufacturer of embroidery and textile machines, trucks and buses under the Saurer and Berna (beginning in 1929) brand names. Based in Arbon, Switzerland, the firm was active between 1903 and 1982. Their vehicles were widely used across mainland Europe, particularly in the interwar period.
==History== thumb|Saurer Touring (1897) still with a tiller, from 1898 with a steering wheel thumb|1910 Saurer Motor Trucks Ad thumb|350px|A Saurer PostBus|Car-Alpin in 1930 In 1853, Franz Saurer (1806–1882) from Veringenstadt, Germany established an iron foundry for household goods near the Swiss town of Sankt Gallen. Eastern Switzerland was a center for both embroidery and embroidery machine development.
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