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Facel Vega was a French builder of luxury cars. The brand was created by Jean Daninos (brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thomson). Initially, FACEL
(Forges et Ateliers de Construction d'Eure-et-Loir) was a metal-stamping company which decided to branch into car manufacturing in the mid-1950s. Facel entered the automobile business as a supplier of special bodies, for Panhard, Delahaye, and Simca.
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Ferrari is an Italian automotive manufacturer in the Formula One World Championship, also involved in high-end and high-performance race cars, supercars, and sports cars. The company was
founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929. At first, Scuderia Ferrari sponsored drivers and manufactured racecars; the company went into independent car production in 1946, eventually became
Ferrari S.p.A., and is now controlled by the Fiat group. The company is based in Maranello, near Modena, Italy.
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Although civilians may use the terms fire truck and fire engine
interchangeably, to an emergency worker, the words represent different types of fire fighting apparatus.
A fire engine is designed to pump water using an engine and onboard water supply, which can be replenished via a fire hydrant, water tender or any other available water source by using suction.
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FIAT Group, or Fiat S.p.A. is a European automobile manufacturer, financial and industrial group based in Turin, Northern Italy; founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli. The company name is an acronym for
Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Car Factory of Turin).
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The Ford Motor Company (usually called Ford; sometimes called FoMoCo),
is an American multinational corporation that manufactures automobiles. The automaker was founded by
Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, United States (where the company is currently headquartered), and incorporated in
1903. In its twentieth century heyday, Ford, along with General Motors and Chrysler, were known as Detroit's "Big Three" automakers, companies that dominated the American auto market. Toyota surpassed Ford in revenue starting in 2004. Ford remains one of the world's ten largest corporations by revenue.
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Framo ist eine Automobilmarke, die in den 1930er Jahren von
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, der auch Gründer von DKW war, begründet wurde.
1938 kam der Framo V500 mit einem Motor von 500 cm³ Hubraum und einer Leistung von 15 PS auf den Markt. Geschwindigkeiten von 60 km/h waren möglich.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Kleintransporter Framo zwischen 1953 und 1961 in der DDR unter der Leitung der Industrievereinigung Fahrzeugbau (IFA) in Frankenberg/Sa. hergestellt.
Das Modell Framo V 902 besaß einen Motor mit 900 cm³ Hubraum und 28 PS (20,6 KW). Der Nachfolger Barkas B 1000 nahm seinen Platz ein.
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The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Company was a maker of automobiles in the United States between
1902 and 1934 in Syracuse, New York. Herbert H. Franklin, the founder, started out in the metal die-casting business (in fact, he invented the term) before entering the automobile business with the engineer John Wilkinson.
All Franklin cars were air-cooled, which the company considered simpler and more reliable than water cooling, and the company considered light weight to be critical in making a well-performing car given the limited power of the engines then available. Most Franklins were wood-framed. The very first used an angle iron frame (1902) and beginning in 1928 the heavier cars adopted a conventional pressed-steel frame. The use of light weight aluminum was used in quantity in all years, to the extent that Franklin was reckoned to be the largest user of aluminum in the world in the early years of the company.
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Frazer Nash was a British automobile manufacturer,
founded by Archibald Frazer-Nash in 1922. The company produced around 400 cars until the mid-1930s, notably a series of chain-drive models, and 85 more cars from 1948 to 1957. The company was the official British importer for BMW from 1934 to 1939. These cars, often imported as bare chassis and bodied in England, were rebadged
Frazer-Nash-BMW. It is said that this renaming was due to increasing anti-German feeling in Britain. During the war the company switched to armaments production.
From 1948 to 1957 the company made a total of 85 sports and racing cars. Although these cars were entirely unrelated to the pre-war Frazer Nash, in the choice of
Bristol engines the cars were natural successors to the imported BMWs: the Bristol engine being a development of that of the BMW 328. These post-war cars are very highly prized by collectors.
The company participated in the 1952 Formula One season, the cars driven by Tony Crook and Ken Wharton. In 1954 the company, as AFN, started to sell Porsche cars, becoming the official importer for Great Britain in 1956. This lasted until 1965 when Porsche Cars Great Britain was set up: Aldington family members remained on the board of this company for some time.
Frazer Nash is sometimes confused with Kaiser-Frazer and Nash Motors, but it is not related to them.
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1950 entstand das Fuldamobil. Eng an den Wohnwagenbau angelehnt, hatte es ein Karosserie aus Holz mit aufgenageltem Blech. Eine simple, aber stabile Konstruktion. Mit diesem einfachen Wägelchen - nur das einzige Hinterrad hatte einen Stoßdämpfer - fuhr der Konstrukteur
Nobert Stevenson durchs Land.
Er war auf der Suche nach einem brauchbaren Motor für sein Gefährt, der eingebaute Zündapp-Motor erwies sich als völlig ungeeignet. Fündig wurde er bei
Baker & Pölling, die eigentlich Motoren für Sägen bauten: 247 cm3 und 8,5 PS. Ein passendes Getriebe lieferte die
Firma Hurth aus München. Jetzt konnte man ein zweites Fuldamobil bauen und war der Ansicht, die technischen Probleme im Griff zu haben, aber im dauernden Alltagsgebrauch zeigten sich doch Mängel.
So wurde ein verbesserter Nachfolger, der "n2" entwickelt. Statt aus Sperrholz war die Karosserie jetzt aus Aluminiumblech. 1954 wurde der Typ "S" vorgestellt, bei dem der Motor jetzt als Einheit in der Hinterachsschwinge verbaut war und nicht mehr auf dem Sperrholzboden befestigt war. Damit vermied man Dröhngeräusche und Vibrationen. Auch hatte die Karosserie jetzt eine Heckklappe, ein rundes Heckfenster sowie einen neuen und leiseren
Fichtel & Sachs Motor. Es wurden noch einige weitere Varianten gebaut.
Von keinem der Modelle konnten aber nennenswerte Stückzahlen verkauft werden. Das Gefährt setzte sich in Deutschland nicht durch, obwohl es in seinen Varianten länger als beinahe alle Kleinwagenmitbewerber gebaut wurde.
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