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Volvo Cars is the first western automotive manufacturer owned by a Chinese company. [14] In 2008 General Motors (GM) decided to either sell or, if no suitable buyer turned up, kill off Saab Automobile. First prospective buyer was Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg. When these talks failed Dutch sports car maker Spyker Cars succeeded.
The Prins August is a preserved Swedish steam locomotive, built in 1856 by Beyer, Peacock and Company in England. [1] It is the world's oldest operating standard gauge steam locomotive, and one of the world's oldest operating steam locomotives overall, currently in the collection of the Swedish Railway Museum.
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The class was at its introduction in 1908 the most powerful steam locomotive built in Sweden, a record which lasted until 1930 when the M3t class was introduced. In 1914 the electrification of the Iron Ore Line had begun, thus making the R class unnecessary at the Iron Ore line, and the locomotives were transferred south to be used in regular ...
The transmission technology Spontaneous gear 1920, an automatic gear box developed by Fredrik Ljungström in the 1920s, attracted attention on the Swedish market, and several private cars were equipped with the system with positive results. A new company was established with this purpose and, Ljungströmsbilen (Swedish: The Ljungström Car).
The E, E2 and E5 classes of the Swedish State Railways (SJ) were three closely related types of steam locomotives.The E class 0-8-0 locomotives were part of the development of modern superheated types that had begun with the A class in 1906, and were intended for both mixed traffic in Norrland and heavy freight trains in southern Sweden.
The boiler and some other parts of the preserved locomotive have been cut open to show how a steam locomotive works. The A class of the Swedish State Railways (SJ) was a type of steam locomotive built between 1906 and 1909 for hauling mainline express trains. The 26 locomotives were built to replace older types that could not cope with the ...
The Swedish State Railways class E10 was a type of steam locomotive which was used for freight traffic. Ten locomotives were built in 1947 as a slightly modified version of the older E9 class. They were used mainly on the Inland Line, before being placed in the strategic reserve, where some remained until 1990; five of them have been preserved.