Volvo retires ipd\u002639;s XC70R All Terrain to the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg

$Volvo retires ipd\u002639;s XC70R All Terrain to the Volvo Museum in Gothenburg$

The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) can be a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity will be the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, that it was the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also situated in Gothenburg, was component of AB Volvo until 1999, when that it was sold to your Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 many experts have owned by the Geely Holding Group, a Chinese multinational automotive manufacturing company. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden.The company was listed within the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was for the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.Volvo was established in 1915 as being a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however both Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout in the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, his or her beginning. The building remains.The manufacturer Volvo was originally registered being a trademark in May 1911 with all the intention to use for a new number of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF chose to simply use its initials since the trademark for everyone its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales leader, as well as a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, the 2 main founders,[clarification needed] chose to start construction of your Swedish car. They created to build cars that may withstand the rigors on the country's rough roads and cold temperatures.AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After twelve months of preparations concerning the production of ten prototypes, the firm was willing to commence the car-manufacturing business inside SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it were only available in 1927, once the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled away from the production line on the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg. Only 280 cars were built that year. The first truck, the "Series 1", debuted in January 1928, as a possible immediate success and attracted attention away from country. In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, plus the export of trucks to Europe started immediately after; the cars wouldn't become well-known outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced for the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935 and SKF then thought we would sell its shares inside company. By 1942, Volvo acquired the Swedish precision engineering company Svenska Flygmotor (later renamed as Volvo Aero).Pentaverken, that have manufactured engines for Volvo, was acquired in 1935, providing a good supply of engines and entry in the marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, was published in 1934, and aircraft engines were added towards the growing range of products on the beginning on the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the very first assembly plant within the company's history away from Sweden in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.In 1950, Volvo acquired the Swedish construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer Bolinder-Munktell. Bolinder-Munktell was renamed as Volvo BM in 1973. In 1979, Volvo BM's agricultural equipment business was sold to Valmet. Later, through restructuring and acquisitions, the residual construction equipment business became Volvo Construction Equipment.