IRRTHUM Joseph

Joseph Alphons Michel IRRTHUM was born in 1891 in Aspelt where his father Mathias IRRTHUM was a Schmied.
He followed in his father’s footsteps and became a mécanicien in Aspelt. As early as 1916 he was assembling agricultural implements in his atelier:

Hack- u. Häufelpflüge
Garantie für guten Gang, mit prima abschraubbaren Stahlscharen für Weinberg u. Acker,
per Stück 37,50 u. 47.50 Fr. franko Bahnstation, ferner:
Eiserne Eggen aller Art, Rübenschneidmaschinen etc. fertigt an und hält stets vorrätig:
Jos. IRRTHUM, mechan. Werkstatt, Aspelt.

33 years later, in 1949, he obtained a patent for a farmland tiller (Ackerland-Fräse).
IRRTHUM died in Aspelt in 1954, he was not married.

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