About Frazer-Nash (Midhurst)
Based in Petersfield, Hampshire, Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) Limited is a precision manufacturing company with a wide customer base both in the UK and overseas. Since our incorporation in 1990 we have developed a reputation for technical innovation combined with high quality and good value.
Alongside our principal work of design and manufacture, we also provide precision manufacturing services to a wide variety of industries.
When a customer has a requirement that cannot be sourced out of a catalogue or from a standard product range, Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) can help. From large turn-key process and handling systems to small special purpose machines, Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) can offer a solution to suit your needs.
Our History
The original company was founded in 1922 by Archibald ("Archie") Frazer-Nash who had, with Henry Ronald Godfrey founded and run the GN Cyclecar Company. The company mainly manufactured cars, and was established in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, moving to Isleworth, London in 1929.
The company entered receivership in 1927 and re-emerged as AFN Limited. The majority of AFN was acquired by H. J. ("Aldy") Aldington in 1932 and run by the three Aldington brothers, H.J., Donald A. and William H. Aldy's son, John Taylor ("JT") Aldington was the last of the family owners/directors until AFN Ltd was sold to Porsche GB.
During World War II, the Frazer-Nash Company was involved in armaments production. It specifically built powered turrets for use on bombers such as the Lancaster.
From the 1960’s. Frazer-Nash Ltd expanded into various fields of activity including postal mechanisms and aerospace, through the growth of these industries it became the Frazer-Nash Group
In 1990 the Frazer-Nash group went into administration. From this point a number of ‘baby Nash’s’ were born. Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) was one of these and Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) Limited was founded in 1990.
Frazer-Nash (Midhurst) has continued the long history of engineering excellence associated with the Frazer-Nash name.