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The display included a truck of type IL, a 3-tonne truck built between 1908 and 1910, and an engine, but neither were sold, and returned to Malmö. [1] The first export sale of a Scania truck happened in 1910, when the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia needed a cable repair truck for its tramway. [4] Picture from the 1909 trip from Malmö to ...
The truck could also be delivered with four-wheel drive, a version known as the F10. It had a war time chassis and military trucks were also sold with petrol engine. Before the war, Scania-Vabis purchased many components from Germany and Great Britain, but these were now largely replaced by Swedish-made components. Unfortunately, production was ...
Scania AB (/ ˈ s k æ n i ə / SKAN-ee-ə, Swedish: [ˈskɑ̌ːnɪa]), stylised SCANIA in its products, is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Södertälje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses.
Scania-Vabis’ new truck, unlike the older models, sported modern facilities like an overhead valve engine, four-speed gear box bolted directly to the clutch and the engine, prop shaft drive, pneumatic tires and a covered cab. The truck could reach the dizzying top speed of 40 km/h (25 mph), a doubling compared to its predecessors.
In 1977, Saab took advantage of Scania's experience with turbochargers and added one to the engine, thus creating one of the earliest turbocharged automobile engines to be produced in large numbers. [citation needed] When the corporation was split in 1995, the name of the truck and bus division changed back to Scania AB.
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It was the first vehicle in a new generation of trucks, with newly designed six-cylinder engines, [2] stronger chassis components and a new, more spacious and comfortable cab. The cab would be used for all conventional trucks until 1980. [2] In the summer of 1959 Scania-Vabis presented the smaller L55, with a seven-litre engine