Archie Frazer-Nash…engineer!

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Book review by Michael E Ware: Mark Joseland, Secretary of the Midland Automobile Club, had spent three years meticulously tracing the history of Archie Frazer-Nash when he was sadly killed in a modern car accident. Trevor Tarring who owns both a Frazer-Nash and a GN took on the task of working these notes and new research into this book, amazingly the first devoted to this talented engineer. After building a number of specials Frazer-Nash in partnership with Ron Godfrey started GN whose cars according to the authors had “the fall-apart factor”. Archie left GN in 1922 shortly before the company was wound up and started building cars under his own name. He formed Frazer Nash Ltd in 1922 a company that went into voluntary liquidation in 1927, the building of the cars then being taken over by AFN Ltd. and Archie Frazer-Nash left the company, a little later to set up his own engineering business. (continue at Read More)

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