Aircraft manufacturer Heinkel, from Germany manufactured this microcar  having a single cylinder, 4-stroke, 175 cc engine during the years 1956-1958. About 8000 cars were produced inside Germany.  

The production license to make these in Great Britain was acquired by an Irish based company called Trojan Cars Ltd. who produced about 6000 of these microcars with the Trojan name from 1958 until 1965.