Commercial vehicle company Arbon & Wetzikon
| Commercial vehicle company Arbon & Wetzikon AG from 1995: NAW Nutzfahrzeuge AG |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1982 |
| resolution | 2008 |
| Reason for dissolution | liquidation |
| Seat | Arbon |
| Branch | vehicle construction |
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The commercial vehicle company Arbon & Wetzikon ( NAW ) was a Swiss commercial vehicle manufacturer founded at the end of 1982 and based in Arbon .
history
The company was founded jointly by Adolph Saurer AG from Arbon and Franz Brozincevic & Cie (FBW) based in Wetzikon . Saurer held 45% of the company's capital and the two owners of FBW Daimler-Benz and Oerlikon-Bührle held 40% and 15% respectively. In 1992 Saurer and Oerlikon-Bührle sold their stake in Daimler-Benz, and NAW became a wholly owned Mercedes-Benz subsidiary. After the end of vehicle production in Wetzikon in 1995, the company name was changed to NAW Nutzfahrzeuge AG . In 2000, Sachsenring AG from Zwickau acquired 51% of the NAW shares from DaimlerChrysler . On May 30, 2002, Sachsenring AG filed for insolvency. With the Sachsenring affair, NAW also got into economic difficulties. At the general meeting on November 29, 2002, the dissolution of the company was resolved, which began in February 2003. In November 2008 the liquidation was ended and the company was deleted from the commercial register.
Products
The most important products of NAW were regular buses for the Swiss Post Bus Service and other Swiss transport companies . They were created between 1982 and 2002 in collaboration with Carrosserie Hess , Lauber Nyon (LN), Ramseier & Jenzer (R & J) and Frech-Hoch Sissach (FHS), each of which supplied the superstructures for the NAW chassis . Even trolleybuses were created in this way.
From around the mid-1980s, NAW produced special chassis and heavy-duty tractors as well as heavy tipper vehicles for Mercedes-Benz . Outstanding here is the 3850 AS 6 × 6, which was introduced in 1983 and aimed directly at the competitor products from Titan . Equipped with a large driver's cab (GR), 500 HP, all-wheel drive and converter clutch (WSK), as well as with a ballast bed on request, the vehicle was built until 2001. The following types were derived from this vehicle: 3236 A 6 × 6 as an oil field vehicle for China, among others; 3250 AS 6 × 6 as a lighter variant of the 3850; 3255 AF 6 × 6 as a chassis for airfield fire engines ; 4050 AS 8 × 8/4 and 4850 AS 8 × 8/4 as four-axle heavy-duty tractors.
Other types are the 3336 S 8 × 4/4 presented in 1984, of which only very few copies were built. Equipped with an L-cab, 355 hp from ten cylinders and two driven rear axles. The successor from 1987 was the 3544 S 8 × 4/4, with GR cab, 354 hp from eight cylinders, WSK and also two driven rear axles.
From the all-wheel drive chassis 2636 A 6 × 6, which was produced in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Wörth am Rhein , the Swiss made the types 3336 AK 8 × 8/4, 3536 AK 8 × 8/4, 4436 K 8 ×, among others 6/4, 4436 AK 8 x / 4, and the chassis 5436 or 6036 × 12 6/6 for the Putzmeister - concrete pump M 62nd
The first Econic chassis were assembled in Arbon at the end of the 1990s . This is a chassis for municipal purposes with a lowered driver's cab made of aluminum and GRP, which is produced by Fritzmeier. First Econic were as garbage trucks and fire service - turntable ladder delivered.
literature
- Jürg Biegger: NAW diesel buses 1983-1998 . Verlag Verkehrs-Fotoarchiv Jürg Biegger, Benken 2013, ISBN 3-905170-44-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Biegger 2013, p. 6.
- ↑ See Biegger 2013, p. 30.
- ↑ Archive n-tv: "The Germans are to blame [sic!]"
- ^ Entry of NAW Nutzfahrzeuge AG (in liquidation) in the commercial register of the Canton of Thurgau