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13 unusual facts about Scania


Antonio Domingo Bussi

The Swedish industrial firm Scania opened a facility in Colombres during his tenure that remains the fourth-largest maker of freight trucks and buses in the country.

Catherine Opalińska

In 1709, her spouse was deposed when the Swedish army lost the military upper hand in Poland, and the family was by Charles XII granted refuge in the Swedish city of Kristianstad in Scania.

Fjorton suger

Emma is fourteen years old and lives with her parents and her older brother, Marcus, in a terrace house in Scania.

Gefion Fountain

She turned her four sons into oxen, and the territory they plowed out of the earth was then thrown into the Danish sea between Scania and the island of Fyn.

John III, Count of Holstein-Plön

However by 1332 he lost Scania which rebelled against the German rule submitting to the Swedish king.

Nobel family

The Nobel family originated from the village of Östra Nöbbelöv in Scania hence the name.

Quit Your Dayjob

Quit Your Dayjob is a Swedish dance-punk band originating from Malmö/Scania, Sweden made up of Jonass (on guitar and vocals), Marcass (synthesizer) and Drumass (drums).

Scania 3-series

The Scania 3-series is a truck model range introduced in 1987 by Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.

Scania-Vabis 314

Until 1927 Scania-Vabis had produced their trucks at two sites: at Scania in Malmö and at Vabis in Södertälje.

Scanian

The people and language of the historical provinces of Scania (Terrae Scaniae, Skånelandene (Danish), Skåneland (Swedish)

Sidsel Ulfstand

Sidsel Ulfstand (died 1575), was a Danish (Scanian) landholder and county administrator.

Tvilum Priory

The first canons came from Dalby Abbey (or Priory), an Augustinian house in Scania (then in Denmark, now in Sweden).

Ulfstand

Ulfstand was a Danish, mostly Scanian, noble family, known since the 14th century and extinct in the male line in 1637.


Ainax

After Volvo was ordered to discontinue its ownership in Scania, the shares were placed in a separate holding company, which was then divested to the Volvo shareholders, and also traded on the NASDAQ OMX Group marketplace Nya Marknanden, today First North.

Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister

In 1949, Alice Tornérhielm married Count Hans Gabriel Trolle-Wachtmeister, a member of the Trolle-Wachtmeister family, with whom she has since lived at Trolle-Ljungby Castle in Scania.

Bed and breakfast

The B&B isn't evenly spread over the country, most are in southern province of Skåne or near one the three larger cites, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Berlinite

It was first described in 1868 for an occurrence in the Västanå iron mine, Scania, Sweden and named for Nils Johan Berlin (1812–1891) of Lund University.

BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport

The project included demonstration of two types of bioethanol-powered buses, a diesel engine Scania bus running on ED95 (sugarcane ethanol plus an ignition improver) and a Dongfeng bus capable of running on both E100 and petrol (flexible-fuel bus).

Birka

This might mean that he sailed off from Hamburg or Bremen instead of some port in Baltic Sea, since the later account by Adam of Bremen gives the distance of Scania and Birka to be only 5 days at sea.

Brita Scheel

In 1679–1682, she lived on her estate Vittskövle in Swedish Scania, where she was active in resisting the pacification policy of Sweden over the formerly Danish Scanian province by appointing Danics vicars.

Carl P. Herslow

In 2010 the Scania Party produced a poster depicting a naked Muhammed with a naked Aisha holding a doll, and the slogan "He is 53 and she is nine. Is this the kind of wedding we want to see in Skåne?".

Count's Feud

The Swedish King Gustav Vasa sent a Swedish army to the aid of Christian III, which invaded Scania at Loshult and plundered, burned, and murdered their way throughout the Gønge area as it advanced toward the town of .

Danes

The Bobbio Orosius distinguishes between South Danes inhabiting Jutland and North Danes inhabiting the isles and the province of Scania.

Duchess of Scania

Princess Louise, Duchess of Scania (1850–1859) as consort of Prince Carl, then Queen of Sweden and Norway

Crown Princess Louise, Duchess of Scania (1923–1950), then Queen of Sweden

Princess Margareta, Duchess of Scania (1905–1920) as consort of Prince Gustaf Adolf (later King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden)

Duke of Scania

Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Scania 1882-1950, then King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden

Prince Carl, Duke of Scania 1826-1859, then King Carl XV of Sweden and Norway

Fleet Management System

The six European manufacturers Daimler AG, MAN AG, Scania, Volvo (incl. Renault), DAF Trucks and IVECO have developed the so called FMS-Standard in 2002 to make manufacturer independent applications for telematics possible.

Fleet telematics system

Daimler Chrysler, MAN AG, Scania, DAF, IVECO, Volvo, and Renault, agreed to give third parties access to vehicle data using the CAN-bus as a connection.

Hesselman engine

Hesselman engines were produced by all three Swedish truck manufacturers of its day, Scania-Vabis, Tidaholms Bruk and Volvo, from the late 1920s.

History of ethanol fuel in Brazil

Scania will manufacture the buses in its plant located in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo.

Industrigruppen JAS

Industrigruppen JAS (IG JAS) was a Swedish industrial consortium founded in 1980 by SAAB-Scania, Volvo Flygmotor, LM Ericsson, SRA Communications and Förenade Fabriksverken (FFV) for the development, construction and manufacturing of the new Swedish combat aircraft JAS 39 Gripen on behalf of the Swedish Airforce.

Investor AB

Scania - sold part of its stake to Volkswagen AG in 2000, selling the remainder to the German car-maker in March 2008.

Jørgen Brahe

Jørgen Thygesen Brahe (1515-1565) of Tostrup in Scania, Danish holder of a Seignory

Martin Wiberg

Martin Wiberg (September 4, 1826 - December 29, 1905) was born in Viby, Scania, Sweden, enrolled at Lund University in 1845 and became a Doctor of Philosophy in 1850.

Nils Håkansson

Nils Håkansson (Latinized as Nicolaus Haquini) was a late medieval Swedish painter from Vadstena, known for his wall paintings in numerous churches in Scania, Sweden.

Oshawa Military and Industrial Museum

Aside from fully restored Bren Gun Carrier and M24 Chaffee, a pair of M4A2(76)W HVSS, and one unrestored Centurion, there are also a number of foreign-operated vehicles including a Scania HLVW prototype that went unprocured by the Canadian Forces in the 1980s.

Robert J. Sinclair

Robert J. Sinclair, (March 17, 1932 — May 10, 2009) was a United States automotive industry executive who served as Chief executive officer of Saab-Scania of America from May 1979 until September 1991, where he helped improve the popularity of Saab's cars by convincing the parent company to manufacture cars with high-end options such as turbochargers and a convertible version of its Saab 900 that was designed to appeal to American consumers.

Scania L113

In 1997, Scania introduced its 4-series range of buses, which utilised smaller and cleaner engines in order to comply with Euro2 emission limits.

Scania N112

MCW subsequently built its own Metrobus chassis as a replacement for the Metropolitan, while in 1980 Scania launched its own replacement, the BR112DH.

Sidsel Ulfstand

As a widow, she inherited the position of county administrator at Villand county in Scania, which was confirmed by royal decree in 1554.

Stridsvagn L-120

In October 1936 the Swedish Army placed an order with the armoured fighting vehicle manufacturer AB Landsverk in the Scanian city of Landskrona for one L-120 tank and one L-120 tank chassis for testing purposes.

Sweden Democrats

Since the 2000s (decade), the so-called "Scania gang" or "Gang of Four"; Jimmie Åkesson (party leader since 2005), Björn Söder, Mattias Karlsson and Richard Jomshof continued the moderation policy which included ousting openly extremist members.