Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:58:12 +0000 From: "G.Velema" <NOSPAMgvelemanopsamr.nl.net> Subject: Re: Is "SAAB" somebody's name, or what??
Aaron K. Dhiman wrote: > > Does anyone know what "SAAB" means or symbolizes?? > But I still wonder why they call it SAAB ab now. :-) Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget was started in april 1937 in Trollhattan to build military aircraft, took over ASJ (Aktiebolaget Svenska Jarnvagsverkstaderna = Swedish railway works) aircraft division and started making airplanes in Linkoping. Some SAAB aircraft used VOLVO engines BTW. Towards the end of WWII the management thought it suitable to change production to cars - the first car was the 1946 SAAB 92 (the SAAB 91 is an airplane - the 'Safir') Series production of the SAAB 92 started in december 1949. (Info taken from; 'The SAAB way' - the first 35 years of Saab cars by Gunnar A Sjogren) MH ('78 95 '79 96)
