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The first Volvo car, a Volvo ÖV 4, left the assembly line on 14 April 1927. The brand name Volvo was originally registered as a trademark in May 1911, with the intention to be used for a new series of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF decided to simply use its initials ...
Collaboration between Volvo Cars and its parent company Geely: Polestar (2017–present) Geely through Volvo Cars in 2015 (1996–2017) as tuner and racing team Scania AB (1911–present) Traton of Volkswagen Group: Volvo Group (1927–present) [1] Volvo Cars (1927–present) Geely (2010–present) Acquired by Ford from Volvo Group in 1999 ...
SKF funded the production run of the first thousand cars, built at Hisingen in Gothenburg, beginning in 1927. SKF used one of the company's trademarked names: AB Volvo, which derives from the Latin "I roll", with its obvious connotations of bearings in motion. The ownership of Volvo lasted until 1935, when the last shares were divested.
Volvo Car AB, [2] trading as Volvo Cars (Swedish: Volvo personvagnar, styled VOLVO in the company's logo) is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles. Volvo is headquartered in Torslanda , Gothenburg .
The Volvo ÖV 4 was the first car built by Volvo.The designation ÖV 4 stands for "Öppen Vagn 4 cylindrar" in Swedish, which means Open Carriage, 4 cylinders. The model ÖV 4 has later often been referred to as "Jakob" but that was just a name for one of the 10 pre-series ÖV 4 that was ready on 25 July 1926, Jakob's name day.
When it comes to cars, size matters. That’s why one Stockholm-based startup is launching a flat-pack microcar, which it says cuts carbon emissions and could make city centers safer for pedestrians.
Swedish aircraft manufacturer AB Thulinverken in Landskrona started building automobiles in 1920. The car was based on a design from German manufacturer AGA. [6] The production was limited and when Volvo started production in 1927 Thulin left the automobile industry after some 500 cars had been built. [7] In 1921 Scania-Vabis went bankrupt ...
Back in July, copywriter Kevin Lynch, originally from Chicago, and his puppy Umlaut, visited all 21 counties in Sweden, stopping off at places with IKEA products named for them.