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The Svenska Volvo PV-klubben almanac 2008
The
text for each months picture
are published in English translation here
Translation
by Dan Jansson
2007
almanack texts here
2006
almanack texts here
2005
almanack texts here
Almanach
texte auf Deuch hier 
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Cover
The cover picture comes from a 1957
promotion postcard from the oil company Esso. Swedish Esso was founded in 1896
under the name "Krooks Petroleum and oil Ltd" and is the oldest oil
company in Sweden. The company was created by merging the two oil compines
Krook, Ahlberg & Co and Falkman, Möller & Co. In 1934 the name was
changed to Swedish petroleum Standard Ltd. In 1951 the name was changed again,
now to Swedish Esso Ltd.
1985 the company was bought by Statoil of Norway and the name changed to Statoil
Ltd. Consequently all petrol stations changed name to Statoil too.
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January
Right here on the parking lot at the
Högfjällshotellet in Sälen the "Caravan club of Sweden" was
founded. It was easter time 1958. In the foreground you can see a 1953 PV444E
with a SMV 6 caravan. This caravan was produced from 1956 to 1958. SMV is an
acronym for "Sörby mekaniska verkstad" that produced caravans since
the end of the 1940:s The PV belonged R.H Lundqvists successor in Lindesberg.
It was scrapped on September 31 1969.
In front of the PV is a 1957 Opel Rekord with the drivers door open. The car
with lots of skis on its side is a 1955 Ford Taunus 12M Kombi. To the right
of the Ford is a Fiat 600.
To the right of the Opel is a Ford Anglia, then an Opel Rekord P1 1958-60. In
the far en you can see a DKW 3=6, Mercedes 180 and an Opel Kapitän 1957. Photo
Unknown.
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February
Östermalmstorg,
Stockholm, 1956. Two of the car deales in the city have parked their test
drive cars on the square. To the left a Borgward Isabella, or more correctly
Borgward Hansa 1500 from 1955, owned by Wulf & Co on Sveavägen 105.
To the left a PV 444HS 1954 owned by Volvo dealer Ernst Nilson AB,
Hälsingegatan 33. In front of the Östermalm indoor market hall is a Ford
Zephyr.
The hall was built in 1888 and the construction took only six months. It was
very modern for its time. It had its own steam driven electricity plant,
ventilation with cooling in the summer and heating in the winter and also its
own well with a pumping system to supply fresh water to the live fish that
was held in basins.
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March
The true mother
of all Duetts. This one has a body built on a PV445 chassis in Linköping by
AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderna and it has only the digit 1 on the chassis
number plate. The year model is 1948 and the model designation is PV445A,
Not until 1953 Volvos own estate body was introduced, the Duett.
Volvo owned the car on the picture until 1958 when it was sold to the Gothenburg
church to be used in its aid work. Behind all collected items is Sven
Karlsson.
The day before new years eve 1961 it was reported scrapped in Sävedalen
outside Gothenburg.
Photo: Göteborgs kyrkliga samfällighet
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April
With screaming B16B engine the dutch rally driver rides
through the bend with his PV544A 1958 in Rally Viking 1960. The first of
these Norwegian rallies was arranged in 1951 and the 1960 version was the
last. The winner this year was the brothers Carl-Magnus and Rolf Skogh in a
Saab 96. The best Volvo was a PV544 driven by Gunnar Andersson and Palle Borch. Photo
Unknown
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May
Storgatan in Horten, south of Oslo in Norway on a
summers day in the middle of the 1950:s. The car to the very right is nothing
less than a Renault Novaquarte Berline Commerciale 1939-
The man in front of the Renault is leaning on an Opel Rekord
from 1955 or 1956.
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June
The town hall of Nässjö was built in 1914. The
picture is from
1953. In front of the town hall is a very practical row of parked cars. Hang
on - we will try to name tham all.
From left to right: Vauxhall Velox, 1949 – 51, a DKW from
the late 1930:s, Studebaker 1951, next a partly hidden Opel Kapitän 1951,
Ford V8 1936, Wanderer W24 1939, Saab 92, PV 444 DS 1953 with strange lide
flachlights. Next is lumber salesman Ernst Hjärtbergs Mercedes-Benz 170 DS 1952,
sales manager Bertil Heimdahls Vauxhall Velox 1952 and an Opel Olympia
1953. The rest we leave to the reador to name. Photo Pressbyrån.
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July
On June 2 1954 three prototypes of the Volvo Sports
were shown at the Torslanda airport in Gothenburg. Three
completed cars were shown and later the same month they
were dispatched for a PR trip through Sweden, Here is prototype
number two, called X2 found its way up to the arctic sircle
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prototypes differed in many details from the later production
cars. The side windows cound not be lowered into the doors.
The test cars all had a hardtop. All the 67 production cars
had a fabric roaf. Photo Volvo archives
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August
In 1959 when this picture was taken
the caravan had not yet had its breakthrough, This is Hagöns
camping at the Östra stranden in Halmstad. To the left of
the men in swim suits is a midnight blue PV 444 KS 1956.
Among other cars you can see DKW 3=6, Fiat 1100, Ford Vedette and
an
Opel P1.
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September
Here is a choice of the cars in
Kristiansta county 1953. On the parking site in front of
Svea Hotell is from the left a
Fiat 1900, bank manager Per Erikssons Fiat 1400 1950, squire Yvone
Wickmans Opel Kapitän 1951, captain Ivar Branges VW 1953, AB Nils
Rosenquist´s PV 444 DS 1952 and a Peugeot 403 from before 1953.
Photo
Almquist & Cöster Hälsingborg
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October
The pride of the new car
cannot be mistaken. Few people take pictures like this today.You
can almost see the eager of poultry farmer
Emil Andersson of Guldsmedshyttan to sit back in the Duett
again, only to turn the key and hear the 51 hp B4B angin
shake and start. Also Margit, his wife, looks happy for
the new car. Photo unknown.
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November
Belgium was on of the earlies export markets for Volvo.
There were already lots of trucks there when the export
of the PV444 there started. The PV444 was introduced
in 1944 at a big exhibition in Stockholm. Already in 1947
the PV444 particiated in a beauty contest for cars in Brussels.
This picture is from 1950. Behind the PV with fog lights
is a Buick and a Frazer, both from 1948. Photo Unknown
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December
Photographer Åke Dahl from Gothenburg has good reasons
to take his hand out of his pockets.It looks like he will
need som work with the snow shovel before he can get away
in his PV 444 A 1947.The picture was taken in
Högsäter south of Färgelanda in Dalsland in the winter of 1951. Åke
Dahl bought the car new on March 11 1950 and had it for three years. The second
owner was Göte Johansson in Hishult, Halland.
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Research and picture texts: Magnus
Björkquist and Dan Jansson
Coloring: Göran Blomquist
Graphic design: Dan Jansson
Printing: PrintGraf Stockholm 2007
Latest
update Januar 8 2008
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