Updated: 22-Oct-2025
NYDQVIST & HOLM
(Sweden)
This company was a locomotive builder since the 19th century. It is actually "Nohab" (see). The name is a contraction of Nydqvist & Holm AB.


"Locomotive plates" (PiP)
-As Nohab Flugmotorenfabrik it made the Bristol Mercury under license around WWII.
-Related to the Bofors, at a time it was called Bofors-Nohab. Also like Volvo, and SFA. There were other sections, such as the navy today united with Wärtsilä.
-It had sections dedicated specifically to the construction of the diverse material of land, sea and air.
-The Head office was in Trollhättan, Sweden.

“Bristol Mercury, under license” (PiP)
-They made the Pergasus as well. They built Paul Aberg's experimental radial rotary engine for testing.

“The Nohab-Aberg prototype” (PiP)


