Kalmar Verkstad AB (''KVAB'') was a Swedish

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manufacturer in

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total o ...

, Sweden that made the Tjorven and

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. KVAB was founded in 1902 and closed in 2005 by Bombardier.

History and products

KVAB's core business was trains, and they built all kinds of locomotives, trams, passenger cars, freight cars for both Swedish market and export. In the mid-sixties, KVAB also produced small trucks, boats, parking decks and cars for road use. Tjorven was a small delivery van based on the

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, Swedish Mail bought a lot of them for mail delivery. Kalmar Terminal was a vehicle intended to be used for transporting goods in ports between ships and railway. One odd detail was that the door was located in the front. It had a V8 diesel engine, automatic gearbox, and semi-trailer coupling with built-in automatic air and electric connections. At forklift was mounted at the rear, so the truck driver could load and unload goods from the trailer.

Products

Y1 (railcar) The Y1 is a diesel-hydraulic standard gauge railcar (single self-propelling carriage). It is in use in Croatia, Cuba, Norway, Serbia, Kosovo, Sweden and Uruguay. The production of the railcars was begun in 1980 by Kalmar Verkstad and Fiat Ferrov ...

* BM2 (train for Bucharest metro) * Regina * Öresundståg * X2 *

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* BM 73b * BM 73a *

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* Tjorven, aka Kalmar KVD440/441 or DAF Kalmar Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Sweden {{Motorvehicle-company-stub