Troll (automobile)

Troll plastic og Bilindustri was an automobile manufacturer from Norway.

The company was established in Lunde in the county of Telemark. In the years from 1955 to 1957 created five to six copies.

The engineer by Kohl -Larsen planned after the Second World War, the production of small cars in Norway. First, he took with the German designer Hans Trippel on contact to a licensed production of the triple initiate in Lunde 750, to which it did not come.

Then learned Kohl -Larsen the designer Bruno Falck and former Saab engineer Erling Fjugstad know, and so, in November 1955, the first prototype, a two-seat coupe with a plastic body, which was equipped with a three-cylinder two-stroke engine of Saab, which consists of 748 cc gave 33 bhp.

1956 ran the serial production. For cost reasons, complete chassis and twin-cylinder two -stroke engines were purchased from the bankrupt company Gutbrod from Plochingen in Germany, which contributed about 30 hp with fuel injection of 663 cc. This series vehicles were longer than the prototype and could accommodate a rear seat.

In early 1957, the company went after the production of five production vehicles in bankruptcy, a sixth vehicle was subsequently assembled from existing parts.

Four vehicles have survived until today, three of which are in Norsk Kjøretøyhistorisk Museum exhibited in Bråstein at Sandnes in Lillehammer and in Rogaland Bilmuseum; the fourth part of a private citizen and is the only troll still functional.