Wednesday, June 22, 2011
1924-2003 Volvo history
Found Volvo was undertaken by the accounting officer Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson of food engineer Rakow restaurant Sturehof, Stockholm on 25 July 1924. The two worked together at SKF and under both the attention of a Swedish car production for several years, a car built for the Swedish steel-and then the best in the world – would be of higher quality, enabling it to compete successfully with cars the leading American on the market.Figures for the first car were produced in the bedroom for the children in the home company of young engineers by Larson, such as Jan g. Smith. In the autumn of 1925 Henry Westerberg was engaged at the end of the drawings. In the process became the first employee, Volvo – and first specify off temporarily in 1926. However, he was rehired later and headed by Volvo for the longest time and ran the employee spending 55 years in the company.
1926-10 prototypes, nine Open top and falling from Galco AB in Stockholm, where Larson was the Chief Engineer. They were completed in the spring of 1926. Some acquired nicknames, such as green light Mermaid, attractive, red "Little Troll ' and 'Jakob ' tablets of victims of the day in which Volvo has 'pomyslany" by Gabrielsson and Larson in 1924. Covered car nicknamed "Grouse hide ' because of its resemblance to a type of Hide used in shoots a bird. Three cars were driven to Gothenburg on what was to prove to the trip, which included the Fordcollision, aggregates for ditch and breakdown of the electrical system in the middle of the night. SKF decided to assign the car manufacturing operations to its subsidiary AB Volvo and appointed to the Board and Larson Gabrielsson, the former as LAM. In addition to its share capital of 200,000 kronor, the company was allocated to the credit of one million kronor by SKF.
