!!!Gräf & Stift

Graef & Stift: In 1893 the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Carl  Graef 
founded a car factory in Vienna where they built the world´s 
first car with front-wheel drive in 1898 (concept patented in 1900). 
In 1901 they were joined by Wilhelm Stift and set up Graef & Stift 
(from 1904 in Vienna´s 19%%sup th/%  district, Doebling). From 
1905 onwards, the company concentrated on making large saloon cars 
(for example for Emperor Franz Joseph I) and small busses (from 1908 
for tourist traffic in the Dolomites). After the World Wars they 
mainly specialised in the production of heavy goods vehicles and buses 
(production site in Vienna´s 23%%sup rd/%  district, Liesing). 
In 1971 Graef & Stift was merged with  Oesterreichische Automobil 
Fabriks-AG to form  Oesterreichische Automobilfabrik OeAF-Graef & 
Stift AG.

!Literature
M. Minnich, Der Fall Graef & Stift, 
master´s thesis, Vienna 1992.


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