Lennartsfors (company)

Lennartsfors AB
legal form	FROM
Seat	Årjäng , Sweden
management	Mikael Swartz
Number of employees	33
Branch	mechanical engineering
Website	http://www.lennartsfors.com/ ; http://www.norsjo.com/sv/om-norsjo

Lennartsfors AB is a Swedish manufacturer of woodworking machines and mopeds .

Company history

Lennartsfors AB was created on January 1st, 2013 from the merger of the previous Lennersfors AB with the company Norsjö Moped AB .

Lennartsfors AB

Lennartsfors was named after Lennart Uggla, who founded an ironworks in 1839 in Ränken or later Ränkesed. The ironworks had a large production range with various products and among other things built boats. The factory closed in 1877. In 1886 a pulp mill was set up, which became one of the largest in Sweden. When exports stopped during World War II , the plant had no future. In 1947, AB Lennartsfors Mekaniska Verkstad was founded in the company .

Today the company manufactures woodworking machines and, since 2007, the mopeds of the former company Norsjö Moped AB .

Norsjö Mekaniska Verkstads AB

Manasse Larsson founded the company in Norsjö in 1951 , which built cargo mopeds. In 1955 the company moved to Forshaga . Production of the Shopper moped car began in 1959 and was discontinued in 1994. In 1964 the company had 35 employees and produced 50 mopeds a week. The company was later renamed Norsjö Moped AB . Since 2003 the company has been producing the Norsjö Carrier cargo moped with a four-stroke engine and an electric drive. The company supplies the electric version with a closed box body for PostNord Sverige, among other things .

vehicles

Norsjö shoppers

The first shopper model , also known as a partner , was a tricycle with the single wheel at the back. The small car only offered space for one person. The body was made of plastic and offered little weather protection. The vehicle length was 216 cm and the vehicle width 93 cm. The engine was mounted in the rear and had a displacement of 50 cm³ . Newer models are also available with an electric motor .

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Norsjö Shopper - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Company website (Swedish and English, accessed July 28, 2012)
Photos (accessed July 28, 2012)

Individual evidence

↑ Värmland Chamber of Commerce. Lennartsfors AB. Archived from the original on January 3, 2012 ; Retrieved April 6, 2013 (Swedish).
↑ fact. In: Lennartsfors AB. norsjo.com, January 7, 2013, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).
↑ Om Lennartsfors. January 7, 2013, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).
↑ Professionally användare eller flakmoppefantast. In: norsjo.com. Lennartsfors AB, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).
^ Historik Norsjö Moped AB. January 7, 2013, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).
^ Norsjö Carrier Electric Post. In: norsjo.com. Lennartsfors AB, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).

[1] Värmland Chamber of Commerce. Lennartsfors AB. Archived from the original on January 3, 2012 ; Retrieved April 6, 2013 (Swedish).

[2] fact. In: Lennartsfors AB. norsjo.com, January 7, 2013, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).

[3] Om Lennartsfors. January 7, 2013, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).

[4] Professionally användare eller flakmoppefantast. In: norsjo.com. Lennartsfors AB, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).

[5] Historik Norsjö Moped AB. January 7, 2013, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).

[6] Norsjö Carrier Electric Post. In: norsjo.com. Lennartsfors AB, accessed April 25, 2019 (Swedish).