History
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Det eksisterer få bevarte biler fra denne fabrikken. Det er kjent at det står en original 1907-modell i salgslokalet til The Beamish Motor and Cycle Works i Nord-England.
Fra NSB Hamar distrikts arkiv, Statsarkivet i Hamar, boks D0119, sak 1624:
Armstrong & Whitworth type 255 og car no. 385.
Museets bil ble importert av Automobil Compagniet A/S og solgt til kammerherre Cappelen på Ulefoss. Vognen ble innbyttet og deretter i september 1924 solgt av Aurora Aktieselskab (morselskapet til Automobil Compagniet) til NSB, Hamar distrikt for 2750 kroner. Disse opplysningene i følge brev i nevnte sak. Bilen ble ombygget til skinnebil på NSB Verkstedet Hamar.
Artikkel om bilen i Norsk Jernbanemuseum 2002. Ut fra skiltet på bilen er car no. noe vanskelig å lese, men er tolket til 665. Den hadde godkjenning nr. 411 i Kristiania og ble gitt registreringsnummeret "15" i Bratsberg amt 1. august 1911. Da de nye registreringsnumrene kom i 1913 fikk den H-6.
The car was produced by the British manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth, with production-/ chassis number 665. The manufacturer was a small factory in Newcastle on Tyne which produced cars between 1907 and 1915. The factory was merged to Siddeley-Deasy, and the new company was named Armstrong-Siddeley; later perhaps more known in other branches of mechanical products than cars.
The car own by our Museum was probably produced in 1911. It came as a new car to Norway, and wa sold through the Norwegian company A/S (Limited) Aurora to chamberlain D. Cappelen, Ulefoss. Mr. Cappelen got the necessary permission to run and use the car in the District of his home County, Bratsberg. The only condition connected to this permission was that he was obliged to compensate for all damage he might cause by his driving with the car.
As being early in the nineteen’s Century, this was the car registration number 411 in Kristiania (Oslo), and the car got August 1st 1911 the registration number “15” in Bratsberg County. When the new registration system was established in Norway in 1913, the Armstrong-Whitworth got the registration number “H-6”. The color of the car was originally red.
By the registration in Bratsberg County, the following data of the car was written in the documents:
“4 cylinders, 24 Hp, 60 kilometers /hour, can manage climb gradient 1:3, fueled by gasoline, tank capacity 70 liters, transmission to rear wheels, distance between wheels (sideways) 1,37meters, tire dimension 820 x 120, Undercarriage weight 980 kg, Car body shape Torpedo Pheaton with Toplandaulet, upper Chassis weight 400 kg, 7 persons (driver + 6 passengers?) + 200 kg luggage, brakes on two wheels, lightning equipment 2 petroleum laps and 2 acetylene searchlights”.
NSB (Norwegian State Railways) were in 1924 searching for a car that could be rebuilt to be run on the railway tracks for line inspection. They put in an announcement for a couple of Newspapers, searching for “Used Automobil (car) Chassis without tires and motor”. They were offered this car from the same Company that sold it new in 1911, the A/S Aurora in Kristiania. The price was now NOK 2.750 (today ap. GBP 320). It was told that the car had a Norwegian built car body with a removable winter top. By test driving the car they found a radiator leakage and that the lightning was not working properly. The company corrected the listed faults and NSB wrote September 4th to A/S Aurora, telling them that they would buy the car.
The car was sent to the Railway Workshop in Hamar and rebuilt with new railway wheels for tracks use. By one occasion the workshop wrote to A/S Aurora again, asking if the ball bearings for the wheels had a dimension that also could stand a change of the rubber tires into iron rings on the existing wheels. The answer was that they would have to double the ball bearings dimension to stand the forces with iron rings. The final solution was that the car was supported with new wheels. The wheel ring was made cast iron by Surahamar Verkstad (Workshop) in Sweden. Totally the railway car costs were ap. NOK 5000 (ap. GBP 580), including obtaining and rebuilding.
As the car now was put in operation, it got the designation Cm type 6 no. 18207, later Cmb type 6, and finally Imb type 256 no. 207. The last designation was never marked/ painted on the car. When NSB Narvik Disrict (in northern Norway) back in 1929 asked for the experiences with the railway cars, they were told that NSB Hamar District were very pleased with the operations, as well for the Armstrong car as for the narrow gauge Ford cars that also were in such use. Nevertheless, snow and rime made some smaller problems, such as slipping conditions due to lack of friction between wheel and rail.
The Armstrong car was showed at a Railways Day in Hamar 1949, and taken over by the Norwegian Railway Museum 1955.
Eierskap
Eier: NJMProduksjon: 1911
- ProdusentArmstrong & Whitworth
Aksesjon: April 4, 1955
Avlevering- AvlevererNSB, Hamar distrikt
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- IdentifierJM001474
- Part of collectionNorsk jernbanemuseums gjenstandssamling
- Owner of collectionNorsk Jernbanemuseum
- InstitutionNorsk Jernbanemuseum
- Date publishedMarch 21, 2014
- Date updatedAugust 24, 2021
- DIMU-CODE011023070755
- UUIDa765b405-1c40-4b8f-8fe3-922c4255df32
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