Year and place: 1956-62, Helsingborg

The story of this car origins in the german city Fulda, where a company began selling licenses to produce a small 3-wheeled coupé with a motorcycle engine. Some 2.000 Fuldamobil were built in Germany 1950-69, and in a number of countries as various car makes.

In Sweden the Fram-King company, producing bicycles, bought a license in 1956. The plan was to construct the model S-6, that had an aluminium body on a wooden frame.

When realizing the plans, the german chief constructor was employed by Fram-King. With him he had the new S-7 model, with a plastic body on a wooden frame. It was decided to build the S-7 instead, but it was improved before production started. Among others the swedish version has a 'complete' plastic body (without a wooden frame).

The car is 320 centimetres long, 140 wide and 130 high, and weighs 310 kilograms. It can carry two grown-ups and two children. The 2-stroke 10hp engine gives it a top speed of 80 km/h, and use 0,6-0,7 litre/metric mil (=10km). It has four gears both forwards and backwards, but to switch from one direction to another the engine must be shut off and restarted.

Between 1957 and 1962 411 cars were made in Sweden. They were sold as two models, FKF 57/58 and King 59/60, but were called a variety of names.

One design change was made of a bit unusual reason. When the production started, Fram-King found only one swedish company that could produce the vacuum-pressed plastic bodies. A year later their factory burnt, and the rest of the bodies were produced in Denmark.

2000-04-21. www.konditori100.se. Text/pictures: Arne Granfoss ©. Prod: AG Informice