NCF Motors

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NCF Motors Limited
legal form Limited
founding 1984
resolution 2015
Seat Tow Law at Bishop Auckland , County Durham , United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Nicholas Charles Findeisen
Branch Automobiles

NCF Diamond
NCF Outbak
NCF Blitz 2
NCF Arctic

NCF Motors Limited was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Nick Findeisen founded the company on November 8, 1984 in Newcastle upon Tyne , County Tyne and Wear . He started producing automobiles and kits . The brand name was NCF . In 1990 he moved to Bishop Auckland in County Durham , in 1997 to Great Whittington near Newcastle and in 2009 to Tow Law near Bishop Auckland in County Durham. The company was dissolved on September 15, 2015. A total of over 1600 copies were made.

FourWD Engineering from Warrington continues the production of some models under the same brand name.

vehicles

The first model was the Diamond Mark 1 . This was a two-door station wagon in an off-road vehicle look. The body was made of metal . A tubular steel frame formed the basis. Technically, the vehicle was based on the Ford Cortina , so it had a front engine and rear-wheel drive. A version with all-wheel drive based on the Toyota Hilux was not very successful. A single vehicle received all-wheel drive from the Ford Sierra . About 300 copies were made between 1985 and 1990.

This was followed by the Diamond Mark 2 . The body was more angular. The drive now came from the Ford Granada . About 250 copies were made between 1990 and 1993.

The Diamond Mark 3 found around 150 buyers between 1993 and 1996. The changes compared to the predecessor were minor and a. the now used curved windshield of the Ford Granada.

About five copies of the leisure car Road Rat based on Fiat Panda were built between 1994 and 1995.

The Torino , derived from the Road Rat , was also based on the Fiat Panda. It was optionally available with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. A pick-up is shown . About 30 copies were made between 1995 and 1997.

The Blitz dirt track racing car was a single-seater. He had a two-cylinder engine from the Fiat 126 in the rear. It found around 400 buyers between 1996 and 1998.

This was followed by the two-seater Blitz 2 . The chassis was supplemented by a subframe from the Mini . The four-cylinder engine of the Mini was mounted in a mid-engine design behind the seats. From 1998 about 200 copies were made.

The Blitz 4 × 4 appeared in 2001, was based on the Suzuki SJ , so had all-wheel drive and found around 50 buyers.

From 2004 about 75 copies of the Traka based on Range Rover were built, of the Outbak based on Suzuki Vitara from 2005 about 110 copies and of the Sahara based on Land Rover Discovery from 2008 about 75 copies.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter NCF.
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1108. (English)
  • Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 180-181 (English).

Web links

Commons : NCF Motors  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter NCF.
  2. ↑ George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1108. (English)
  3. ↑ a b opencorporates (English, accessed on March 4, 2017)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Steve Hole: AZ of Kit Cars. The definitive encyclopaedia of the UK's kit-car industry since 1949 . Haynes Publishing, Sparkford 2012, ISBN 978-1-84425-677-8 , pp. 180-181 (English).
  5. ↑ Information from FourWD Engineering (English, accessed on March 4, 2017)