Scania 2016 2009 SCANIA – 1980 125 YEARS In 2016, Scania celebrated its 125th anniversary. Since day one, Scania has been at the forefront of the transport industry. Through ingenious engineering, guided by our core values and a strong focus on continuous improvement we have provided our customers profitable solutions to meet their needs. From its founding as a small wagon-building company back in 1891 to today’s company, Scania has stood steady through even the most challenging times. On our journey towards the next 125 years, Scania is committed to play its role in a world increasingly dependent on safe, sustainable and efficient transport systems. 1897 1969 2003 1891: The wagon-building company Vabis is established in Södertälje and sets about producing open goods wagons and transport wagons. Some 20 years later, Scania-Vabis is created through the merger of Vabis with the Malmö-based machine-manufacturing company Scania. 1891 1923: Scania-Vabis designer August Nilsson develops a four-cylinder, overhead-valve engine. The engine’s power and reliability are of major benefit in trucks and buses. 1939: Scania-Vabis unveiled the first engine to use standardised components, thus marking the beginning of Scania’s modular system. 1961: Scania-Vabis builds on its success in Brazil, opening its first own production facility outside Sweden in São Bernardo do Campo, near São Paulo. 1950 1970s: Scania’s industrial and marine engines gets their characteristic signature colour: paprika red. 1989: Scania delivers the first order of bioethanol-powered buses to SL, the regional public transport company in the Swedish capital. 1936: Scania-Vabis develops its first diesel engine, something that impresses the trade press during test drives. “To my surprise, I could hardly hear the engine,” wrote one journalist. “However, I certainly felt its effect as the bus shot forward like an arrow.” 1941: The Scania vocational school started. Eventually it became a three-year upper secondary school entirely driven by Scania. Today the school is named Mälardalens Tekniska Gymnasium and is run by Scania, AstraZeneca and Telge. 1969: A legend is born! Scania introduces a 350 hp, 14-litre V8 turbocharged engine. It is the most powerful truck engine in Europe at the time and pioneers Scania’s low-rev philosophy with a high-torque output at low engine speeds. 1980: Scania introduces the GPRT range (2-series) – the company’s first entirely modularised product range.
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