NOHAB
| Industry | Engineering |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad (1847) |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Defunct | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Trollhättan, Sweden |
| Products | Locomotives, aircraft, turbines |
| Website | www |
NOHAB (Nydqvist & Holm AB) was a manufacturing company based in the city of Trollhättan, Sweden.
The company was founded by Antenor Nydqvist, Johan Magnus Lidström and Carl Olof Holm in 1847 as Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad as a manufacturer of turbines for hydraulic power plants. In 1865, the company made its first steam locomotive and in 1912 the 1,000th locomotive steamed out of the factory.
In 1916 the company was reconstituted as a limited company and became NOHAB. In 1920, NOHAB received an order of 1000 locomotives from Soviet Russia. Only 500 were delivered between 1921 and 1924.
In 1924, Nohab built three steam locomotives, 4-6-0 ones for 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge with the respective builder's plates #1727, #1728 and #1729 for Estrada de Ferro Rio d'Ouro in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). According to E.F. Rio d'Ouro's surviving records, they would not have arrived in Brazil before 1926.
In 1930, NOHAB started manufacturing the Bristol Jupiter aircraft engine, under licence from the Bristol Aeroplane Company. A couple of years later the aircraft engine division of NOHAB and AB Svenska järnvägsverkstäderna (Swedish Railway Workshop Limited), in Linköping, formed the aircraft manufacturer SAAB.
In 1948 NOHAB supplied diesel railcars to the Portuguese Railways (CP), in both 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge (the Série 0100) and 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge versions (the Série 9100).
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