Temax (company)

TEMAX S.A.

Industry	Automotive
Founded	1925 (Tournikiotis-Tangalakis), 1934 (Tangalakis), 1965 (Temax)
Headquarters	Athens , Greece
Products	Buses (until 1963), fire trucks
Website	http://www.temax.gr/

TEMAX is a Greek manufacturer of fire and rescue vehicles, trailers, fire-related equipment, and snow-clearing equipment. The company is headquartered in Athens, Greece.

The company was founded in 1925 when Petros Tangalakis entered into a partnership with G. Tournikiotis, a vehicle manufacturer based in Athens. In 1934, Tangalakis split from Tournikiotis to create his own company. During the occupation of Greece in World War II, the factory was forced to operate under German control.^{[citation needed]} Vehicle production resumed in 1945.^{[citation needed]}

In the years following World War II, the company focused on all-metal bus construction using chassis from Studebaker, Daimler, Volvo, and other manufacturers. Several models were produced, some of which featured extensive modifications to the purchased chassis to accommodate higher loads or different vehicle dimensions. The company also assembled Wayne models in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

In 1963, Tangalakis shifted to firefighting vehicle manufacturing, mainly using International Harvester chassis (assembled by Tangalakis from SKD kits). In 1965, the Tangalakis family, along with Alexandros Ginis, Fanourios Gyrtatos, and Antonis Kalogeropoulos, established TEMAX, a new company focused on the production of firefighting and other special vehicles. Another branch of the original company continued under the Tangalakis name as an importer and distributor of firefighting and rescue equipment and vehicle parts.^[1]

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  1936 Tangalakis-Austin light car
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  Inside view of 1936 Tangalakis-Austin light car
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  1935 Tangalakis inter-city bus (International chassis)
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  Inside view of a 1936 Tangalakis inter-city bus
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  1956 Tangalakis bus (Volvo chassis)
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  1962 Tangalakis coach
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  TEMAX fire-fighting truck on self-assembly International truck chassis (1965)
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  TEMAX old fire-fighting vehicle
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  TEMAX modern fire engine

• L. S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle and Machine Manufacturers 1800 to Present: A Pictorial History", Marathon (2012) (eBook)
• "P. Tangalakis", article in "To Volan" (Greek auto magazine), July 18, 1957
• A. Chronis, "P. Tangalakis", article in "Pullman&Leoforeio" (Greek commercial vehicle magazine), September 1992
• L.S. Skartsis and G.A. Avramidis, "Made in Greece", Typorama, Patras, Greece (2003) ISBN 960-7620-30-5 (republished by the Patras Science Park, 2007)
• E. Roupa and E. Hekimoglou, "I istoria tou aftokinitou stin Ellada (History of automobile in Greece)", Kerkyra - Economia publishing, Athens (2009) ISBN 978-960-8386-95-2

• Media related to Temax at Wikimedia Commons
• http://www.temax.gr
• http://www.tangalakis.gr
• Greek bus builders in Bus-planet.com