FN Type 2100 Rolling Chassis - 1910
Chassis n° 604
Engine n° 604
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais
Bonhams
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2019
Estimated : € 14.000 - 16.000
Sold for € 13.800
One of Belgium's leading marques, FN – the "Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre" – had its origin in the fusion in 1886 of a number of arms manufacturers in Liège. Car production didn't get properly under way until 1906, when FN began making Rochet-Schneider cars under licence, and by 1907 four cars a day were leaving the FN factory at Herstal-lez-Liège. Debuting in 1909, some 267 examples of the Type 2100 are understood to have left the FN Works, they featured a 2188cc side valve engine and three speed transmission.
According to information on file, chassis 604 was delivered on 10 February 1910, some 119 years ago. Its history beyond this point is not charted, although it is known that prior to arrival in the collection it had been used as a demonstration chassis for educational purposes in a technical college in Roubaix in this country close to the Belgian border.
On arrival with Mr. Vander Stappen the intention had been to restore the car and return it to the road, with this in mind a rear section of bodywork which is clearly of a similar era was acquired and rests on it, the project was not progressed any further.
FN Type 2100 Rolling Chassis - 1910
Chassis n° 604
Engine n° 604
Les Grandes Marques du Monde au Grand Palais
Bonhams
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2019
Estimated : € 14.000 - 16.000
Sold for € 13.800
One of Belgium's leading marques, FN – the "Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre" – had its origin in the fusion in 1886 of a number of arms manufacturers in Liège. Car production didn't get properly under way until 1906, when FN began making Rochet-Schneider cars under licence, and by 1907 four cars a day were leaving the FN factory at Herstal-lez-Liège. Debuting in 1909, some 267 examples of the Type 2100 are understood to have left the FN Works, they featured a 2188cc side valve engine and three speed transmission.
According to information on file, chassis 604 was delivered on 10 February 1910, some 119 years ago. Its history beyond this point is not charted, although it is known that prior to arrival in the collection it had been used as a demonstration chassis for educational purposes in a technical college in Roubaix in this country close to the Belgian border.
On arrival with Mr. Vander Stappen the intention had been to restore the car and return it to the road, with this in mind a rear section of bodywork which is clearly of a similar era was acquired and rests on it, the project was not progressed any further.