FN (automobile)

[1] Despite state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities, by the end of 1895 FN was in poor financial shape due to a lack of orders on their M1889 rifles and a lost legal battle with Mauser over the rights to produce improved M1893s.

[2] In 1897 their sales manager Hart O. Berg visited Pope Manufacturing Company[2] and by 1898 FN bought a Columbia Victoria battery electric vehicle.

Automobile production resumed after the First World War, and the Typ 2700a, now equipped with an electric starter, a tachometer and "automatic" chassis lubrication.

The FN Typ 2150 was, by the standards of the time and place, a mid-range automobile with a four cylinder engine of approximately 1.5 litres and four speed transmission.

It was replaced in 1930, amidst celebration of the manufacturer's first thirty years as an auto-maker, by the FN 11CV, a technically well equipped car noted for its sporty driving characteristics.

Higher up in the hierarchy of the market place, FN were also at this time offering a prestigious eight cylinder car.

After passenger car production came to an end the company continued to be active as a motor-bike producer till the mid 1960s.

Commercial vehicle production also continued till after the war, and FN was building trolleybuses until the early 1960s.