What's the conection. trivia questions
 

I'll start.
Connection between this make of car & B.M.W./Porsche.
Only half points if you are from the U.K.!
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air cooled?

Nope

The engine was designed by Dr. Porsche for BMW pre-war. The blueprints were taken by the British post-war for reparations.

gaijindabe
Down the right path, in a way......but no cigar.

That four martini lunch is killing me - I have got to cut back to three...

OK, A clue.
They also made these for Lancasters & others. (some irony there).


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Frazer Nash built the turrets

After The War, BMW's Eisenach plant ended up a few Km inside the Russian sector, which is why a lot of the Russian and Chinese motorcycles (Ural, etc.) look strangely like prewar BMW airheads.

Anyway, before the war, Frazer-Nash was BMW's importer to the UK, selling the cars as "Frazer-Nash-BMWs."

But more to the point, tafter the war, the rest of BMW's tooling for the engine for their beautiful 328 Roadster was shipped off to England as war reparations. The Brits tooled up and began making their own version of the 328 engine, which found its way into Bristols in various forms.

Very Good!
There is a Porsche conection as well, see last paragraph....
By the way, the 'Nash in the picture is my Sisters.

Frazer Nash was a British automobile manufacturer, founded by Archibald Frazer-Nash in 1922. The company produced around 400 cars until the mid-1930s, notably a series of chain-drive models, and 85 more cars from 1948 to 1957. The company was the official British importer for BMW from 1934 to 1939. These cars, often imported as bare chassis and bodied in England, were rebadged Frazer-Nash-BMW. It is said that this renaming was due to increasing anti-German feeling in Britain. During the war the company switched to armaments production (famously for aircraft gun turrets) From 1948 to 1957 the company made a total of 85 sports and racing cars. Although these cars were entirely unrelated to the pre-war Frazer Nash, in the choice of Bristol engines the cars were natural successors to the imported BMWs: the Bristol engine being a development of that of the BMW 328. These post-war cars are very highly prized by collectors. The company participated in the 1952 Formula One season, the cars driven by Tony Crook and Ken Wharton.

In 1954 the company, as AFN, started to sell Porsche cars, becoming the official importer for Great Britain in 1956. This lasted until 1965 when Porsche Cars Great Britain was set up: Aldington family members remained on the board of this company for some time. Frazer Nash is sometimes confused with Kaiser-Frazer and Nash Motors, but it is not related to them