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Name: Frazer Nash BMW 328 1939
Brand: Frazer Nash

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Created on March 1, 1985

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Halwart Schrader

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Bonhams

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Neil Fraser / Courtesy of RM Sotheby's

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Neil Fraser / Courtesy of RM Sotheby's

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Frazer Nash BMW 328 Roadster (1939) - offered as lot 11 at the Bonhams Bond Street London auction on December 7, 2019

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Frazer Nash-BMW 327 Sports (1939) - as lot 35 at the Bonhams auction on the occasion of the Goodwood Member Meeting on March 21, 2015

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Frazer Nash (BMW) 328 (1937) - offered as lot 152 at the Artcurial Le Mans Classic auction on July 2, 2022

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Frazer Nash-BMW 328 Roadster (1937) - offered as lot 344 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on June 24, 2022

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Frazer Nash-BMW 319 Roadster 'The Outlaw' (1935) - as lot 175 at the Bonhams Goodwood Members' Meeting Auction 2025

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Frazer Nash BMW 328 (1937) - Alpine Trial 2016

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Frazer Nash-BMW 319 (1937) - with Bertelli bodywork, Lionel Martin standing in front of it

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Frazer-Nash / BMW 328 Sports & Touring Two Seater (1938) - at the Geneva Motor Show 1938

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Frazer-Nash : BMW 328 Sports and Touring Two Seater (1938) - at the Geneva Motor Show 1938

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Frazer Nash-BMW 315 Saloon (1936) - auctioned on the occasion of the Beaulieu Auction 2024

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Frazer Nash-BMW 326 (1939) - sold by Bonhams online 2024

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Frazer Nash-BMW 315 Three-position Drophead Coupé (1935) - offered as lot 345 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on June 24, 2022

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Frazer Nash-BMW 319 Cabriolet (1935) - offered as lot 346 at the Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction on June 24, 2022

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Frazer Nash BMW 329 Cabriolet (1937) - offered as lot no. 137 at the RM-Sotheby's auction in Paris on February 4 and 5, 2025

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BMW 326 Frazer Nash (1938) - at the 1000 Mile Trial 2015

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Frazer Nash-BMW 326 Saloon (1938) - as lot 233 at the Bonhams "The Golden Age of Motoring" auction on October 30, 2020

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Summary

Between 1935 and 1939, the Aldington-Frazer-Nash company imported around 700 BMW vehicles, around 70 of which were chassis. The British were enthusiastic about the 315 to 335 models, but the Second World War put an end to the fruitful cooperation for both sides.

This article contains the following chapters

Imports instead of in-house developments
Unbodied chassis for British wheelwrights too
Many limousines and touring cars
328 with A.F.N. bodies
The war intervened

Estimated reading time: 4min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The sporty vehicles with the white and blue emblem of Bayerische Motorenwerke had always been very popular in Great Britain. A certain Mr. H. J. Aldington, who had signed an import contract with the BMW management in Munich at the end of 1934, was particularly keen to promote the brand. Aldington, himself the head of a small automobile factory, had felt a spontaneous affection for the German sports cars when he got to know them on the 1934 Alpine tour ... The dedicated technician and rally driver Aldington was actually committed to the Frazer Nash tracked car - the remarkable vehicle that is both well-known and feared in motorsport, which was reported on in detail in an earlier article . But the vehicles with their anachronistic chain drive had outlived their usefulness. And a new development would have been too much for the financial resources of the A.F.N. (Aldington-Frazer-Nash) company.

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