Troll Plastik and Bilindustri

Troll from 1956 in a museum

Troll

Troll Plastik og Bilindustri was an automobile manufacturer from Norway .

description

The company was based in Lunde in the province of Telemark (since 2020 Vestfold og Telemark ). Between 1955 and 1957, five to six copies were made.

The engineer Per Kohl-Larsen planned the production of small cars in Norway after the Second World War . First he got in touch with the German designer Hans Trippel in order to initiate license production of the Trippel 750 in Lunde , which however did not materialize.

Then Kohl-Larsen got to know the designer Bruno Falck and the former Saab engineer Erling Fjugstad , and so in November 1955 the first prototype was created, a two-seater coupé with a plastic body, which was equipped with a three - cylinder two-stroke engine from Saab made from 748 cc displacement delivered 33 hp .

Series production started in 1956. For cost reasons, the bankrupt Gutbrod company from Plochingen in Germany purchased complete chassis and two-cylinder two- stroke engines with intake manifold injection from a displacement of 663 cm³ and producing around 22 kW (30 hp). These production vehicles were longer than the prototype and had space for a rear bench seat.

At the beginning of 1957 the company went bankrupt after the production of five series vehicles, a sixth vehicle was then assembled from existing spare parts.

Four vehicles have survived to this day, three of which are on display in the Norsk Kjøretøyhistorisk Museum in Lillehammer and in the Rogaland Bilmuseum in Brastein near Sandnes ; the fourth belongs to a private person and is the only troll still functional.

In 2019, after two years of construction, a grandson of the founder produced another vehicle based on the chassis of a VW Beetle and with an open body.

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 (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
• Walter Drawer: Small Cars International. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-01959-6 .

Web links

Commons : Troll Plastik og Bilindustri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Troll (English and Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hauke ​​Schrieber: The sad story of the troll By: Auto Bild Klassik from December 23, 2010 (accessed on March 29, 2020)
2. ↑ The Troll's offspring. In: Auto Bild Klassik , issue 10/2019, p. 56.