Frazer-Nash - Frazer-Nash Prewar
Archie Frazer-Nash set up to assemble Frazer Nash-GN cars after leaving GN, building a few cars, but the days of the Cyclecar type machine was rapidly ending. So he started to build a car using the Gustave Maclure designed four cylinder 1500cc "Plus Power" engine with a totally redesigned and refined stronger font axle, sold as the Fast Tourer or Super Sports. When the Plus Power engine company ceased trading, the only alternative engine that could be substituted was the older side valve design by Maclure which was the Anzani, and these were the Frzer Nash Boulogne model. The original Frazer Nash Ltd was changed to William G. Thomas and Frazer Nash Ltd when the company moved to the larger premises obelonging to Thomas, and by 1927 AFN Ltd. had been formed, and when the Anzani company got into trouble, it was moved and set up next door at Kingston upon Thames. By 1930 H.J.Aldington was the new owner, with new factory premises in Isleworth, run by the 3 Aldington brothers on a much more commercial basis. Sales of Frazer-Nash cars were now direct from the Works only, cutting out the agents or middle men. Much in the same way that Blockley Tyre Co. operates! The Frazer-Nash TT Replica was the mainstay of their catalogue, introduced from 1932 and in production until the start of hostilities in 1939.
Pre war Frazer Nash tyre sizes vary, the earlier cars from the 1920's having beaded edge tyres originally, as all cars did in that period, and 710x90 would be a good size, although most of these cars now are fitted with 400x19 size. Where listed, all the Frazer Nash cars originally were fitted with 4.40x19 and later 4.50x19 which Blockley produces high quality period correct examples of, along with other sizes people have also subsequently used, such as 5.00x19. Note Blockley also produces a 4.75x19 tyre which is like a 500x19 but with a diameter closer to a 450x19 . . .
