North (car brand)

North Vi-à-Vis with newspaper trailer (1902)

Norden was a Swedish car brand.

Company history

The company AB Södertälje Verkstäder from Södertälje already manufactured railway wagons and imported vehicles from Ducommun , Kühlstein , NAG and Protos . 1902 began the production of automobiles under the brand name Norden . Production ended in 1905 and the last vehicles were sold in 1906. In 1905, three vehicles of this brand were registered in Stockholm . The total production was about ten vehicles. The same company used to manufacture Helios vehicles.

Two vehicles still exist.

vehicles

The only model was a license production of the American " Silent Northern " of the Northern Manufacturing Company in Detroit . Two-seaters and four-seaters in the Dos-à-Dos body shape were on offer . The single-cylinder engine initially developed 5 hp , from 1904 6.5 hp.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• George Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Web link

Commons : North Vehicles  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Automobile Quarterly Volume 30, Issue 3, p. 75.