August Frykman

• Immigration 1882
• 1910 - Souris, Bottineau County, North Dakota. (own shop, machinist)
• 1920 - Souris, Bottineau County, North Dakota.
• 1930 - Bottineau, Bottineau County, North Dakota. (car garage, manager)
• 1940 - Bottineau, Bottineau County, North Dakota. (car garage, manager)

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The first automobile with a steering wheel built in North Dakota.

In 1908, August Frykman, an immigrant from Sweden who ran a blacksmith shop in Souris, North Dakota, along with his brother and Victor Frykman, began making a car they called the Frykman Friction Drive automobile. They purchased automobile parts in Chicago, Illinois to build a two-passenger, open roadster that operated with a friction drive. The car had no transmission, gears, or clutch. It was a cumbersome system that did not work well in rain or mud. It is likely that the Frykman brothers made only two cars. August later opened a Chevrolet dealership, and then a Ford dealership in Bottineau, North Dakota.