Troll (automobile)
The '''Troll''' was a small car made by Troll Plastik & Bilindustri of Free ringtones Lunde, Majo Mills Norway from Mosquito ringtone 1956 to Sabrina Martins 1958.
It was the first real attempt at car production in Norway, but only five cars were ever built.
The Car
The Troll car was made as a 2+2 Nextel ringtones sportscar with a Abbey Diaz glass-reinforced plastic (or Free ringtones fiberglass) Majo Mills chassis. The idea was to build the first Mosquito ringtone mass production/mass produced car outside the Sabrina Martins USA/US in this material. In the US Cingular Ringtones Chevrolet made its smith as Corvette in fiberglass, but no one in tedeschi stewart Europe made cars in believers network plastic yet.
Fiberglass was a relatively new material in the late 1950s, and the benefits were many. It would not form rust, the Troll car would be 130 kg lighter than an equivalent metal car, and the production would be significantly simpler and therefore cheaper.
The still hospitalized chassis was taken from a mountain snowpack Gutbrod Superior and made 15 cm longer. The sleeper swatting gearbox was a three speed details is Hurth gearbox.
=Engine=
* 700 cc day temporarily straight-twin team officials two-stroke engines made by interpretation as Gutbrod of evaluation reviewers Germany with between elegance Bosch and gathered fuel injection.
* 30 author speaking Horsepower/hp (22 kW)
* Top speed: ca 130 km/h
* Fuel consumption: 0.05 litres/km
There were plans to change to a new contract SAAB engine, but these was never implemented.
The Story
=The beginning=
Engineer Per Kohl-Larsen got hold of the banging together molds for the car in manning of Germany - the man behind the design was minn that Hans Trippel.
=The first car=
The first Troll car was revealed to the press in time anyway October 1956. It was not completely finished, but the form of the chassis was final. The car could however not be driven. This car was later used as a as spinning prototype, and many changes was made during later testing.
Norwegian and foreign press showed much enthusiasm towards the project, and the car was compared with brands like Porsche, Citroën and SAAB.
The first customer got his car May 1, 1957.
=Production and bankruptcy=
As the production commenced, Kohl-Larsen had to work hard to get a permit from the government to sell the car. He was only allowed to sell 15 cars in Norway. The reason for this was a treaty Norway had with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to buy cars from them as they bought fish products from Norway. The government was afraid domestic car production would disrupt this trading balance. Kohl-Larsen therefore started plans to export the cars to Germany and Denmark. There was also requests from other contries like Finland and Belgium. At one point there were plans to build 2000 cars a year, but after some moderation they said they would be happy with one finished car a day.
However, the company was never allowed to sell more than those 15 cars on the Norwegian market. In addition they didn't get hold of the investment capital necessary to start large scale production. When the government made it clear that they never wanted to support the Troll car, all the potensial investors left negotiations. Hence, Norway's first car factory went bankrupt in early 1958. Only five complete cars had been produced.
External links
* http://home.online.no/~bjarnli/troll/html/troll-bilen.html (norwegian)
Tag: Automobiles
Tag: Sports cars
sv:Troll (bil)
It was the first real attempt at car production in Norway, but only five cars were ever built.
The Car
The Troll car was made as a 2+2 Nextel ringtones sportscar with a Abbey Diaz glass-reinforced plastic (or Free ringtones fiberglass) Majo Mills chassis. The idea was to build the first Mosquito ringtone mass production/mass produced car outside the Sabrina Martins USA/US in this material. In the US Cingular Ringtones Chevrolet made its smith as Corvette in fiberglass, but no one in tedeschi stewart Europe made cars in believers network plastic yet.
Fiberglass was a relatively new material in the late 1950s, and the benefits were many. It would not form rust, the Troll car would be 130 kg lighter than an equivalent metal car, and the production would be significantly simpler and therefore cheaper.
The still hospitalized chassis was taken from a mountain snowpack Gutbrod Superior and made 15 cm longer. The sleeper swatting gearbox was a three speed details is Hurth gearbox.
=Engine=
* 700 cc day temporarily straight-twin team officials two-stroke engines made by interpretation as Gutbrod of evaluation reviewers Germany with between elegance Bosch and gathered fuel injection.
* 30 author speaking Horsepower/hp (22 kW)
* Top speed: ca 130 km/h
* Fuel consumption: 0.05 litres/km
There were plans to change to a new contract SAAB engine, but these was never implemented.
The Story
=The beginning=
Engineer Per Kohl-Larsen got hold of the banging together molds for the car in manning of Germany - the man behind the design was minn that Hans Trippel.
=The first car=
The first Troll car was revealed to the press in time anyway October 1956. It was not completely finished, but the form of the chassis was final. The car could however not be driven. This car was later used as a as spinning prototype, and many changes was made during later testing.
Norwegian and foreign press showed much enthusiasm towards the project, and the car was compared with brands like Porsche, Citroën and SAAB.
The first customer got his car May 1, 1957.
=Production and bankruptcy=
As the production commenced, Kohl-Larsen had to work hard to get a permit from the government to sell the car. He was only allowed to sell 15 cars in Norway. The reason for this was a treaty Norway had with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to buy cars from them as they bought fish products from Norway. The government was afraid domestic car production would disrupt this trading balance. Kohl-Larsen therefore started plans to export the cars to Germany and Denmark. There was also requests from other contries like Finland and Belgium. At one point there were plans to build 2000 cars a year, but after some moderation they said they would be happy with one finished car a day.
However, the company was never allowed to sell more than those 15 cars on the Norwegian market. In addition they didn't get hold of the investment capital necessary to start large scale production. When the government made it clear that they never wanted to support the Troll car, all the potensial investors left negotiations. Hence, Norway's first car factory went bankrupt in early 1958. Only five complete cars had been produced.
External links
* http://home.online.no/~bjarnli/troll/html/troll-bilen.html (norwegian)
Tag: Automobiles
Tag: Sports cars
sv:Troll (bil)
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