GN

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GN from 1921
GN from 1921 in the Louwman Collection
GN from 1922

GN was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company GN Limited began in 1910 in Hendon with the production of automobiles. In 1920 the company was renamed GN Motors Limited and moved to Wandsworh . From 1923 the company was again called GN Limited . GN stands for the initials of the two company founders HR G odfrey and Archibald Frazer- N ash .

Production was stopped in 1925.

vehicles

Produced cyclecars and sporty small cars , mostly open-top two-seater. Until 1923 only two-cylinder engines, mostly in V2 form, were used. Four-cylinder engines were only used in the last two models . The engines initially came from Antoine and JAP , later from Anzani , Chapuis-Dornier and DFP .

There were the two-cylinder models Prototype from 1910 with a displacement of 1100 cm³ , Deluxe from 1911 to 1912 with a displacement of 998 cm³, Sports from 1912 with a displacement of 905 cm³, Grand Prix from 1913 to 1915, Touring from 1915, Standard from 1919 to 1921, Touring from 1921 until 1923 and Vitesse from 1922 with 1087 cm³ displacement. There were also the four-cylinder models Shaft from 1923 with 1098 cm³ and 12/35 HP from 1924 to 1928 with 1496 cm³ displacement.

The following weights are known: Deluxe 203 kg, Grand Prix 406 kg, Touring (1915) 229 kg, Standard 330 kg, Touring (1921-1923) and Vitesse 432 kg, 12/35 HP 559 kg.

A vehicle of this brand can be viewed at Sommer's Veteranbil Museum in Nærum , Denmark .

See also

  • Frazer-Nash , later a British car brand in which Archibald Frazer-Nash was involved

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
  • GN Georgano : cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, 1975 (French)
  • David Culshaw, Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895–1975 , Veloce Publishing PLC, Dorchester (1997), ISBN 1-874105-93-6 (English)

Web links

Commons : GN  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Culshaw and Horrobin: The Complete Catalog of British Cars 1895-1975