Saab-Scania AB was a Swedish vehicle manufacturer that was formed from the 1969 merger of

Saab AB Saab AB (originally , later just SAAB and Saab Group) is a Swedish aerospace and defence company, founded in 1937. Headquartered in Stockholm, the development and the manufacturing is undertaken in Linköping. Saab produced automobiles from 19 ...

and

Scania-Vabis Scania AB is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Södertälje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses. It also manufactures diesel engines for heavy vehicles as well as marine and general indu ...

. The company was split in 1995.

History

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and

bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...

manufacturer

Scania AB Scania AB is a major Swedish manufacturer headquartered in Södertälje, focusing on commercial vehicles—specifically heavy lorries, trucks and buses. It also manufactures diesel engines for heavy vehicles as well as marine and general ind ...

Södertälje Södertälje ( , ) is a city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea through the lock in the ...

merged with car and

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manufacturer

Trollhättan Trollhättan () is the 23rd-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Trollhättan Municipality, Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Göta älv, near the lake Vänern, and has a population of approximately 50,000 in the city proper. It is loc ...

on 1 September 1969, under the

Wallenberg family The Wallenberg family is a prominent Swedish family, Europe's most powerful business dynasty. Wallenbergs are noted as bankers, industrialists, politicians, bureaucrats, diplomats and military. The Wallenberg sphere's holdings employ about 60 ...

group of companies. The merger meant that Saab no longer had to import the British

Triumph Slant-4 engine The Triumph slant-four is an inline four-cylinder petrol car engine developed by the Triumph Motor Company. It first appeared in 1968 in the Saab 99. The first Triumph model to use the engine did not appear until 1972. With an original capacit ...

, and could instead use the engine production facilities of Scania. In 1972 they started manufacturing the 2.0 L B version. In 1977, Saab took advantage of Scania's experience with

turbocharger In an internal combustion engine, a turbocharger (often called a turbo) is a forced induction device that is powered by the flow of exhaust gases. It uses this energy to compress the intake gas, forcing more air into the engine in order to pro ...

s and added one to the engine, thus creating one of the earliest turbocharged automobile engines to be produced in large numbers. When the corporation was split in 1995, the name of the truck and bus division changed back to Scania AB. Saab Aircraft (

) and Saab cars were also split, with

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buying a major holding in

Saab Automobile Saab Automobile AB () is a defunct car manufacturer that was founded in Sweden in 1945 when its parent company, Saab AB, began a project to design a small automobile. The first production model, the Saab 92, was launched in 1949. In 1968 the p ...

AB.

Divisions

Saab-Scania consisted of following divisions: *Aircraft (traded under the

brand) – until 1995 *Cars (traded under the

brand) – until 1990 *Trucks & Buses (traded under the

Scania Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skån ...

brand) – until 1995

Subsidiaries

Saab-Scania had following subsidiaries: *

AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning (English: ''Swedish Railroad Workshops' Air Plane Department''), commonly shortened to ASJA, was a Swedish aircraft manufacturing company. Based in Linköping, Sweden, it was established duri ...

(ASJA) – until 1981 *

Jönköping Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland. The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipa ...

– until 1983 * Nordarmatur – until 1983 * Parca Norrahammar – until 1983 * MJ – until 1984 * Enertech – to 1988 * Combitech – from 1982 to 1995 * Saab-Valmet – from 1968 to 1992

References

External links

Saab Aerotech websiteSaab Automobile websiteThe Saab Car MuseumScania corporate site
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History

Divisions

Subsidiaries

See also

References

Further reading

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