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Norddeutsche Automobil und Motoren GmbH North German Automobile engines and was a German car manufacturer, created in 1908 and owned by the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company The factory was in Bremen Most of the company's products and its successors were badged with the brand Lloyd.
The mark Lloyd allemand had no connection with the British company Lloyd Cars Ltd assets between 1936 and 1951.
The first cars were dismissed built electric vehicles Krieger gasoline engine models followed in 1908 with 3685 cc engines, but few were made in 1914, the company merged with Hansa to become Hansa-Lloyd Werke AG The majority of cars produced by the new company were sold as Hansa with the Hansa-Lloyd name attached to commercial vehicles only However, two cars, 4 liters Treff aS and 8-cylinder 4 to 6 liters Trumpf aS were badged as Hansa-Lloyd the company been integrated into the Borgward group after buying Hansa by Carl FW Borgward in 1929 and car production ceased.
Lloyd as brand name is entered car series production and light trucks in 1950 the company became Lloyd Motoren Werke GmbH still in Bremen The first Lloyd 300 cars were wood and fabric slim body, rolled steel gradually replaced the shell tissue of origin between 1953 and 1954 Lloyd 400, but the timber was still used in the doors and elsewhere.
Lloyd 250 was called Prüfungsangst-Lloyd Lloyd for exam nerves as they appealed to license owners to drive older that could lead without passing a new driving test for cars with engine capacity of more 250 cc, a test that has been introduced in legal reform in the mid-1950s with a capacity of only 11 bhp DIN, designers Lloyd saw a need to gain weight, and thus offered the LP 250 without back seat , bumper, wheel covers or trim However, most buyers ordered the LP 250 V with these optional features.
Overall, vehicles adapted to the need for small and cheap cars that were a feature of the post-war Germany, and they provided a relatively high level in the comfort and reliability They increased in third place in the statistics on annual licenses for several years in the 1950s, just behind Volkswagen and Opel despite this success, there was little prestige to win by driving a Lloyd in the vernacular, the Lloyd 300 Leukoplastbomber was called because of the usual owners to repair nicks in the fabric of the body with tape called Leukoplast contemporary mocking verse Wer nicht den Tod Scheut fährt Lloyd He who has no fear of death drives a Lloyd .
Pietro Frua designed a coupe based on the Lloyd Alexander; it was presented at the Turin Motor Show in November 1958.
The parent company failed in 1961, but the cars were always up in 1963 At that time, the LP 900 was named Arabella Borgward instead of Lloyd Arabella.
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