Hi Göran:
Sorry, motorcycles are out of my line of research.
Regarding the "Swedish Touch", I worked for Volvo and SAAB-Scania from 1968 to 1991.
During my time with Volvo, I was based in Sweden for two years, Peru for two years and Canada for 1 1/2 years.
One of my major goals in taking these assignments overseas was to really live the life of the country to the extent that I could. In Sweden, we lived in Lerum, outside of Göteborg, in a totally Swedish community. All of our neighbours were more than helpful to help us learn Swedish as were my mates at Volvo's head office. During our first summer semester, my wife, my three children and I spent the entire time way in the North of Sweden where English was not so common and came back able to at least survive in Swedish. Got pretty good at it by the time we left.
I still belong to a few Swedish language websites to try to keep up my language skills.
We did the same thing in Peru and all of us speak reasonably good Spanish.
Same routine in Canada, we lived in the countryside about 80 km outside of Toronto amidst "Real Canadians". That allowed me to continue to perfect my "British English" and of course I learned how to drink real beer, lots of it.
During my time with SAAB-Scania, I held national level VP positions and since I was an Anglo that also spoke Swedish I got to take all the dealers from English speaking countries on the dealer trips to Sweden so even though I was based in the US, I spent maybe 2-3 months out of the year in Sweden.
Det var nog när det gäller min "Swedish Connection"
Please post any more photos of vehicles you need identified here and I will do my best to help out. I note that the three you posted were of SS vehicles, is that your field of interest??
Cheers
Bill
Sorry, motorcycles are out of my line of research.
Regarding the "Swedish Touch", I worked for Volvo and SAAB-Scania from 1968 to 1991.
During my time with Volvo, I was based in Sweden for two years, Peru for two years and Canada for 1 1/2 years.
One of my major goals in taking these assignments overseas was to really live the life of the country to the extent that I could. In Sweden, we lived in Lerum, outside of Göteborg, in a totally Swedish community. All of our neighbours were more than helpful to help us learn Swedish as were my mates at Volvo's head office. During our first summer semester, my wife, my three children and I spent the entire time way in the North of Sweden where English was not so common and came back able to at least survive in Swedish. Got pretty good at it by the time we left.
I still belong to a few Swedish language websites to try to keep up my language skills.
We did the same thing in Peru and all of us speak reasonably good Spanish.
Same routine in Canada, we lived in the countryside about 80 km outside of Toronto amidst "Real Canadians". That allowed me to continue to perfect my "British English" and of course I learned how to drink real beer, lots of it.
During my time with SAAB-Scania, I held national level VP positions and since I was an Anglo that also spoke Swedish I got to take all the dealers from English speaking countries on the dealer trips to Sweden so even though I was based in the US, I spent maybe 2-3 months out of the year in Sweden.
Det var nog när det gäller min "Swedish Connection"
Please post any more photos of vehicles you need identified here and I will do my best to help out. I note that the three you posted were of SS vehicles, is that your field of interest??
Cheers
Bill
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