Haynes Manuals – Volvo 240 Series (76 – 93) Manual (97020)
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Volvo 242, 242GT, 244 and 245 Sedan and Wagon, DL, GL, and GT all models except diesel (76 – 93)
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Volvo anniversary – Role you have or drive you been?
Volvo is Latin and means “I roll”. Cars for the Swedish brand which applies for 80 years, because in April 1927 left the first model of the factory in Gothenburg. Almost at that time an error would have messed up the premiere – because the first car drove backwards.
At ten clock in the morning on 14 April of 1927 was the world to rights again. Hilmer Johansson took the first Volvo automobile, the open type ÖV4, out of the workshop on the island Hisingen in Gothenburg. The waiting journalists expressed their cameras, the premiere was a success. A few hours earlier it had not looked after, because during a test drive in the morning the car was only backwards – one was late at night arrived from Stockholm component on the rear axle was installed incorrectly. The error could be up for the photo session in the morning, fortunately, could solve them.
“From there,” jokes the author in the official history of the Swedish brand, “it could only go forward.” The Volvo’s roots reach back further than anything else, however, until April eighty years ago. It was in August 1924 when two former colleagues from the SKF ball bearing factory in the Stockholm restaurant Sturehof “for crayfish met. The engineer Gustaf Larson, at this time 37 years old, and the SKF Sales Manager Assar Gabrielsson, 33, came in the course match their meal to start a car factory and build cars that were tuned to the Swedish road and weather conditions.
Fine features, but low demand
Almost three years later they had in common with engineer Henry Westerberg and the artist Helmer Olsson, who designed the body, made the first Volvo to the wheels – those very open ÖV4 with four doors, five seats, a small vase of flowers on the wooden panel and an ashtray. The four-cylinder engine accelerates the car to a maximum of 90 km / h. Although Volvo soon nachschob a closed model, the demand would not start right. Only 297 cars were sold in the first year, the two founders had hoped for 1,000 cars.
This misconception was characteristic of the initial phase of the fledgling company. After all, Volvo had in 1929 first made a small profit, and from then on it was gradually uphill. After five years ago, the factory production of 10,000 vehicles – but only 3800 of which were passenger cars, the other models were trucks. The expected boom had therefore set still does not – and then came the war with gasoline rationing and crew. During this time, however, the Volvo engineers was sufficient time for new developments, and so in 1943 the first plans were for the later model PV 444th
