The Ã…tvidaberg was a
Swedish automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarded ...
manufactured from 1910 to 1911.
Ã…tvidabergs Vagnfabrik AB began by importing an
American Holsman High wheeler
A high wheeler is a car which uses large diameter wheels that are similar to those used by horse-drawn vehicles. These cars were produced until about 1915, predominantly in the United States.
Design
High wheelers were derived from horse-drawn ...
and using it as a pattern. The car used a
flat-twin
A flat-twin engine is a two-cylinder internal combustion engine with the cylinders on opposite sides of the crankshaft. The most common type of flat-twin engine is the boxer-twin engine, where both pistons move inwards and outwards at the same ti ...
engine; its top speed was about 45 km/h (28 mph). Some of the later engines had four cylinders. The
gearbox
Propulsion transmission is the mode of transmitting and controlling propulsion power of a machine. The term ''transmission'' properly refers to the whole drivetrain, including clutch, gearbox, prop shaft (for rear-wheel drive vehicles), diffe ...
was
two-speed, and the whole engine was slid backwards under the frame to engage reverse. 35 cars were planned. Of these, 12 were built, and the rest were converted for use in railway inspection.
Ref: Dept of Transportation, Stockholm, Sweden
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Sweden
Goods manufactured in Sweden
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Highwheeler
Brass Era vehicles
1910s cars