Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera

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AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera
legal form Corporation
founding 1907
resolution 1972
Seat Linkoping , Sweden
Branch Rail vehicle manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera or ASJ for short was a Swedish mechanical engineering company that mainly manufactured rail vehicles and aircraft . The product range also included motor vehicles , heat exchangers , boilers and bodies for buses .

The company existed from 1907 to 1972. In 1973 Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera was taken over by Hägglund & Söner .

history

ASJ was founded in Linköping in 1907 by the brothers Carl Johan and Erland Uggla , who previously worked in Södertelge Verkstäder . In 1918 the company acquired the Arlöfs Mekaniska Verkstad & Waggonfabrik in Arlöv and the Vagn- & Maskinfabriksaktiebolaget Falun in Falun . Motor vehicles were subsequently built in Arlöv, and rail vehicle construction continued in Falun ( ASJ-F ).

According to an advertisement for the X6 railcar in the Järnvägs-Teknik magazine , AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera had production facilities in Falun (locomotives), Arlöv (freight cars), Linköping (rail buses), Katrineholm (buses) and Gävle (freight cars).

Towards the end of the 1960s, the demand for rail vehicles and trams was weak, and the liquidation of the company began. Despite attempts to manufacture motor boats, ASJ ended production in Linköping in 1972/1973. With the liquidation of the company, ASJ-F was sold to Hägglund & Söner in Örnsköldsvik , who continued the rail vehicle construction in Falun.

Aircraft construction

RK 26 “Tiger Terns” built by ASJA in Linköping as SK 10 for the Swedish Air Force at Varberg airfield

The merger of ASJ's subsidiary, AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstäderas Aeroplanavdelning (ASJA), with Svenska Flygmotor AB resulted in Svenska Aeroplanaktiebolaget (SAAB), later referred to as Saab AB , in 1937 . After the spin-off of Saab Automobile AB , Saab has been an aircraft and armaments company since 2000.

Road vehicles

In 1947, when ASJ bought Svenska Karosseri Verkstänena in Katrineholm, there was a production facility in which mines were first built for the navy. In 1954 the production of buses began. A few automobiles were made from 1960. Production ended around 1966.

buses

The first bus was created in 1954 in cooperation with the Linjebuss operating company and was a bus for overland transport.

Automobiles

The only model ASJ Sixten Sason was a sports car. It was named after the industrial designer Sixten Sason , who worked for Saab . Saab launched the second version of the Saab Sonnet in 1965 , which was based on a design by Rolf Mellde. The ASJ Sixten Sason is seen as the predecessor of this model.

The factory in Arlöv produced the Saab Sonett, Saab 95 , Saab 99 and Saab 900 types of vehicles .

Rail vehicles

Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera in Falun ( ASF-F ) built mainly steam locomotives of the SJ B (II) and SJ N series for Statens Järnvägar from around 1918 to 1920 . From 1922 until production was discontinued in 1973, electric locomotives of the series SJ Pb , SJ Of , SJ D , SJ Ub , SJ Ha , SJ Hc , SJ M , SJ Öd , SJ F , SJ Za , SJ Da , SJ Dm , followed. SJ Dm3 , SJ Ra and SJ Rc , whereby in many cases only the mechanical part was built and the electrical part was supplied by Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget (ASEA). In addition to the NSB El 10 series for Norges Statsbaner, there were diesel locomotives of the SJ Tp , SJ T2 , SJ T3 and SJ T23 series as well as numerous individual pieces and small series for private railways. In the 1950s and 1960s, in addition to rail cars and locomotives, trams such as the M28 were manufactured for the Gothenburg tram . The type C1 metro cars and, in cooperation with ASEA, their successors C2, C3 and C4 were built for Tunnelbanan in Stockholm .

In the workshop in Linköping ( ASF-L ) several four-axle diesel railcars of the SJ Y6 series were built between 1953 and 1957 .

Boat building

Folkparca is a type of motorboat that was also built by AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera in the early 1970s .

Product gallery

Examples of vehicles manufactured, some of which were jointly built with other companies such as ASEA.

Railcar

  • SJ X5 , four car bodies, 1948

  • GSJ Y6 , five pieces, 1954 (GSJ 1–5)

  • SJ Y7 , 45 pieces from 1958 (SJ 1163–1207)

  • SL X1 , 102 car bodies from 1967 (SJ 3001–3102)

Passenger cars / motor boats

  • SJ B5, 20 pieces built in 1967 (SJ 5116–5135)

  • Folkparca type of motorboat

AB Nya Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera, ASJ

On September 11, 1984, AB Nya Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera, ASJ was founded and entered in the company register with its headquarters in Borlänge . The company was engaged in the rental of industrial equipment. On October 15, 2012, tax payments ended due to bankruptcy filing . This bankruptcy closed on June 14, 2013.

literature

  • Bengt-Åke Rudström: Aktiebolaget Svenska järnvägsverkstädera i Linköping 1907–1972: ASJ: Hundra år sedan start (=  TNF-Bok . Band 51 ). Trafik-Nostalgiska Förlaget, Stockholm 2007, ISBN 978-91-85305-45-2 .
  • Bengt-Åke Rudström: Rälsbussar: från Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera och deras samtida (=  TNF-Bok . Band 67 ). Trafik-Nostalgiska Förlaget, Stockholm 2008, ISBN 978-91-85305-79-7 .
  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aktiebolaget Arlöfs Mekaniska Verkstad & Waggonfabrik, Arlöf. In: Jernbanen.dk. Retrieved May 15, 2014 (Danish).
  2. ^ Vagn- & Maskinfabriksaktiebolaget i Falun. In: Jernbanen.dk. Retrieved May 15, 2014 (Danish).
  3. ^ AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstadta. In: tydal.nu. Thomas Tydal, accessed May 15, 2014 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ a b Aktiebolaget Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera i Linköping 1907–1972 - Hundra år sedan start. (PDF) Short text on the book by Bengt-Åke Rudström. Centrum för Näringslivshistoria, accessed on May 15, 2014 (Swedish, page 20).
  5. ↑ Hägglund & Söner, Örnsköldsvik. In: Jernbanen.dk. Retrieved May 15, 2014 (Danish).
  6. ↑ The Swedish company Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget has been making a name for itself under the world-famous Saab name since 1937. Retrieved May 15, 2014 .
  7. ↑ End of a cult brand - Sa Farewell. In: spiegel.de. June 22, 2016, accessed May 16, 2019 .
  8. ^ AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera, Katrineholm. Landsverk - Från smedja til storindustri 1850–1992. Landskrona Museum, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved May 16, 2019 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ a b c d e f Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  10. ↑ Articles about SAAB's biler and their baggrund. (PDF) Archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2019 (dk).
  11. ↑ Delivery list AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstadta, Falun ,. ASJ-F. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved May 16, 2014 (Danish).
  12. ↑ Delivery list AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädera, Linköping ,. ASJ-l. In: jernbanen.dk. Retrieved May 16, 2014 (Danish).
  13. ^ AB Nya Svenska Järnvägsverkstadta, ASJ. InternetVikings International AB, accessed February 8, 2016 (Swedish).
  14. ^ AB Nya Svenska Järnvägsverkstadta, ASJ. Verksamhet & Status. allabolag.se, archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2016 (Swedish).