Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk
| Private | |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Fate | Merger |
| Successor | Strømmens Værksted |
| Founded | 1864 |
| Defunct | 1959 |
| Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
| Products | Rail cars |
Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk was a mechanical workshop focusing on design and construction of railcars. It was established by Hans Skabo in Drammen, Norway in 1864; it became the first rail car factory in the country when it took delivery of the cars for Kongsvingerbanen. Due to the size of the venture, it moved to Tyskerstranden at Skøyen in Kristiania (now Oslo) in 1873.
Because the delivery of rail cars is uneven, Skabo participated in other manufacturing, including coachworks for trucks, buses and taxicabs. The first Norwegian-produced trolleybus was delivered from Skabo in 1911. Also technical devises and stalls and in 1926 firewood powered snow melters; the latter contraption rather unsuccessful. In 1948 the company was bought by Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri (NEBB), who sold it to Strømmens Værksted in 1959; moving all activity to Strømmen and closing the Skøyen plant.
Skabo has built the chassis the NSB El 6 and NSB El 7 electric locomotives delivered to Rjukanbanen, for locomotives no. 5 and 6 on Thamshavnbanen, and for the multiple units type 62, type 65, type 66, type 67, type 68 and type 88. The electrical components for these were often built by Norsk Elektrisk & Brown Boveri or foreign companies like AEG or ASEA.
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