VBK Vestfold Bil & Karosseri Horten, Vestfold County, Norway

Vestfold Car And Bodywork

Volvobus bodywork from VBK, Aure.

Photo: David Hatlen

DAF-bus with bodywork from VBK, Hamar and surrounding areas Car routes .
Photo: David Hatlen

Vestfold Car And Bodywork A/S (VBK) was one of Norway’s largest body factories. The factory was located at Horten in Vestfold County, Norway, and produced bus coachwork as well as cooling-and freezing the coachwork, train Interior and ambulances. At its peak had VBK-the Group of 600 employees (1981), and produced approximately 4,600 bus tub rose splines between 1953 and 1982. 

The company was founded on 17. January 1946 as Stedjeberg Auto A/S, owned by 20 men from the district. They ran the gas station and car dealership, as well as car and body repair shop. The first few years was the bus production modest. In 1951, the company took the name Vestfold Car and Bodywork A/S.

In 1953, were the shares of the company taken over by h. Astrup and Co. A/S, in the same year began the VBK to build bus coachwork, in part, of the alloy, after they had built from the start of traditional automotive body of steel. In 1957, began also to produce VBK body panels of glass fibre reinforced plastic .

VBK established in 1961, the subsidiary Kristiansund Let metal a/s in Kristiansund, Norway, that produced the VBKs bus models.In 1969 bought VBK factories t. Knudsen the bodywork factory in Kristiansand, Norway, and Larvik bodywork. These two factories also produced the VBKs bus models, but was put down after a short time, and bus production was moved to Horten.

In 1971 was VBK with to establish A/S the Interior the bodywork factory in Sjøvegan in Troms County, Norway . VBK were co-owners from the start, and took over the company completely in 1981.Also this factory produced buses for VBK.

In collaboration with the Scan Rescue A/S in London began in 1970 with the building the VBK and the decoration of the ambulances.In 1978, the Danish VBK bought cooling-frysekarosserifabrikken Frigor Trans in Viborg. Three years later, the Danish busskarroserifabrikken VBK bought j. Ørum-Petersen’s Body factory a/s in Herning. After this purchase had VBK-the Group of 600 employees, of which 350 employees at the hovedbedriften in Horten.

In 1982 sold VBK first bodywork factory in Troms County, Norway to the Inland Rutebil Troms County, Norway. Later in the same year became bus production in London closed down. The following year, also VBKs bus production in Denmark VBK and discontinued, had left 90 employees in London, who worked with the build up of ambulances, the cooling bodies and bus repairs. In 1987, took over the main workshop for VBK air force’s maritime literature, and star engines, after the Horten Shipyard had been closed down in 1986. This Department was on maintenance and overhaul of aircraft and ground equipment.

Today live VBK-the name forward in the two companies at Horten: VBK Bodywork Horten AS and VBK Nordic AS. These companies are up to, respectively, the body work on buses and trucks, and construction and the sale of ambulances and other special vehicles. 

In the fall of 2011 edited VBK Bodywork Horten AS the name back to the original VBK as.

1950-scania-vabis-vbk

1957-volvo-b725-mod-fra-nsb-trondheim-med-vbk-m53-karosseri

1958-vbk-model

1958-vbk-model-scania-vabis

1960-u-8432-scania-vabis-bf75-bygget-av-vestfold-bil-karosserifabrikk-vbk-i-horten

1961-scania-vabis-b-75-vbk

1961-scania-vabis-b55-1961-modell-med-vbk-karosseri

1961-scania-vabis-bf75-61-mod-tilhc3b8rende-vsb-vestfoldrutene-bussen-hadde-m58-karosseri-fra-vbk

1963-carson-vbk-bodied-volvo

1963-scania-vabis-b56-58-mod-med-m58-karosseri-fra-vbk

1964-leyland-worldmaster-with-body-from-norwegian-vbk-a15720

1964-magirus-deutz-saturn-ii-vbk

1964-vbk-scania-vabis-b76

1964-vbk_scania-vabis_b76

1965-daf-tb-160-vbk

1965-daf-tb-160-vbk

1965-scania-b76-63-med-vbk-karosseri-c30397

1967-volvo-b54-vbk-karosseri

1968-a-15667-is-a-1968-volvo-b57-65-with-vbk-dual-purpose-bodywork

1968-scania-vabis-bf75-61-1960-mod-levert-til-bc3a6rums-forende-bilruter-pc3a5-bekkestua-i-bc3a6rum-med-vbks-m58-karosseri

1968-volvo-b57-50-klm-vbk-snk-9941

1971-vbk-scania-bf80

1972-scania-vabis-m58-karosseri-fra-vbk-c4625

1972-vbk-m41-scania-b110

1973-mercedes-benz-ambulanse-vbk-rescueline-w115

1974-mercedes-benz-ambulanse-240d-vbk

1975-bc28393-is-a-scania-bf111-63-with-a-bus-body-by-vbk-vestfold-bil-og-karosseri

1975-volvo-b58-60-vbk

1976 volvo-vbk-litouwen

1976-volvo-vbk

1977-scania-bf-111-vbk-m42-bf-11163

1978-scania-br86s-vbk

1978-scania-br86s-vbk

1979-scania-bf111-63-kombinertbuss-mod-med-m42-karosseri-fra-vbk

1980-volvo-b10m-leddbussen-med-karosserie-fra-nc3a5-nedlagte-vbk

1981-scania-br112-vbk

1982-vbk-m500f-volvo-litouwen

1983 volvo-vbk-estland

1985-mercedes-benz-300-d-ambulanse-vbk-rescueline-w124

1997-ford-econoline-ambulanse-vbk-rescueline-200-e-350

chevrolet-b10439-vbk?

daf-ab-hamar-omland-bilruter-hh-vbk

daf-ab-hamar-omland-bilruter-hh-vbk

kz30890-is-a-vbk-bodied-scania

2009 mercedes-vbk-hb64579

scania-br86-super-vbk

scania-br86-super-vbk

scania-vabis-76-vbk-f5008

scania-vabis-t-knudsen-b5331 + vkb

scania-vbk-477

t-3493 vkb?

volvo-vbk

vbk-daf-30-94-zweden

vbk-volvo-b10m

vbk-volvo-hb-92-707-roskilde

1982 volvo-b10m-mk-i-vbk-50

volvo-b58-chassis-with-29-seat-vbk-vestfold-bil-karrosseri-bodies

volvo-policebus-b1312-vbk?

1983 volvo-vbk-lb

volvo-buss-med-karosseri-fra-vbk-aure

volvo-vkb-krsundoppdalauto-hh

2005 vw-vbk-vx29759

2001 w-m-buslinier-dj98231-scania-k112cl-med-karosseri-fra-vbk-i-herning-her-set

That’s what I could find

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Buses T KNUDSEN Karosserifabrikk Norway

T. Knudsen Karosserifabrikk

Kvadraturen

Kristiansand

Norway

The start was end 1800 and it closes 1971

Volvo T Knudsen karosserifabrik K-5516

My great-grandfather, Tobias Knudsen, started the company in the late 1800s. Then called the T. Knudsen Vognfabrikk. The factory began producing hestekarjoler. The factory was located in Kvadraturen in Kristiansand. After some time my grandfather, Trygve Knudsen, factory. He realized that the future lay in motorized carts, and production resulted in a significant number of buses until it was discontinued in 1971. Factory were located in the upper quarter, in Church Street, but moved to the Queens street where it was erected a factory building. In recent years kept the factory to a larger factory building at Eastern Beach Gate 84 at Otras bank. The last period in the plant’s history was marked by deliveries to the Swedish bus companies because of the transition to “H Day” (from left-to right-hand traffic as happened in 1967). Buses to Sweden was then fitted with doors on the right side in addition to the temporary door on the left. It is said that Kristiansand Karosserifabrikk was the first in Norway to produce articulated buses

 VOLVO T  knudsen karosseri

T. Knudsen Karosserifabrikk AS

Tobias Knudsen

1969 NN 17546 Mercedes 1113 T Knudsen Karosserifabrikk tot 1992 © Tore Jensen

Trygve Knudsen

Volvo-T-Knudsen-karosseri-BudAuto

Buss produsert ved T. Knudsen Karosserifabrikk AS.

1962 Scania-Vabis B75-58LV with 11.14 metre 36 seat coachwork by the T Knudsen Karosserifabrikk.

Interiør i en buss produsert ved T. Knudsen Karosserifabrikk AS.

1962 Scania-Vabis B75-58LV with 11.14 metre 36 seat coachwork + interior by the T Knudsen Karosserifabrikk.

ND 67385 T Knudsen Karosseriefabrik © Tore Jensen

1956 H 15724 Volvo Karosserifabrikk T. Knudsen

NN 17545, Scania-Vabis T Knudsen Karosserifabrik © Tore Jensen

1957 K-3174 is a Volvo B725-05 with Knudsen 36-seat coachwork

1968 Scania vabis Geledebus T Knudsen Karosserifabrik © Tore Jensen

1961 T-8648 is a Volvo B615-97 with a Knudsen 41-seat bus body.

1963 T Knudsen 1163bfrv

Scania Vabis T Knudsen Karosserifabrikk PX 14213

1963 Volvo T Knudsen Kar.Fabrikk 1163be

T Knudsen Karosseriefabrik

1968 Scania Vabis T Knudsen Kar.fabrikk.1171b-68

1968 Scania Vabis T Knudsen Kar.fabrikk.1171b-68

1968 Scania Vabis T Knudsen Kar.fabrikk.1171b-68

1970 Scania Vabis T Knudsen 1170b

six new found pictures

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Buses ARNA Norway

Bussen ARNA, een bus uit Noorwegen

Arna Scania-Vabis-Moerebil-hh

Arna Mercedes-RE80234

Op naar Scandinavië vandaag. Opnieuw een busmerk waarik tot ik naar bussen ging zoeken nog nooit van gehoord had. We komen in Noorwegen, specifieker in Bergen, bij de fabriek van ARNA. Ze maken het Chassis en de opbouw, maar voor de motor gebruiken ze veelvuldig motoren uit Zweden Volvo en Scania Vabis, Duitsland Mercedes Büssing en Man, Nederland DAF, en je ziet er een doodenkele uitgerust met een Renault Motor. Hoe ik ook zoek, ik kan geen LOGO vinden.
Dan doen we het maar gewoon met bussen toch.

Bezoek ook eens het andere blog van Hot en Rose: the Family Hotrose op:
http://familyhotrose.blogspot.com

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Arna DAF-Romerrikebusstrafikk-hh

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