With the Swedish government continuing to increase their military spending in 1939 as the tension grew bigger with Denmark, Norway fearing a attack from Germany and tension between Finland and the Soviet union as they fought.
Piston Works was once again tasked with building a new inline six for military purposes and immediately got on their drawing boards as it was a rather urgent contract and in the end this what they come up with:
A 3.2 liter inline Six producing 106hp @ 3300RPM and 238Nm @ 2600RPM
With the okay given by the military administration the work quickly began in early January 1940 until April 9th as Germany began their attack on Norway and Denmark simultaneously with Denmark almost surrendered in an instant and Norway capitulating in June. Norway now occupied by Germany and establishing a blockade of the North Sea
we have lost important access to the rest of the western world as every single shipment had to be negotiated with the German and British as they also made a blockade which caused an enormous drop of trades and shipments of important resources.
The factory continued its normal operation for the next few months as we still had enough resources to continue our operation but eventually they would ran out at some point, around 1941 a large portion of our supplies are almost depleted and this meant we had to negotiate with the Germans and British for our shipments which wasn’t easy to deal with and often causes us to unwillingly cease our means of production because of the severe shortage at the time due to the blockade.
An on and off production of the engine continued until 1943 when the work on it finally ceased as there was no point on continuing it and also of the ordered 1500 units, only 750 units have been built by then.
But there was a second engine meant to been build in 1940 along with the other one, it was the 6.2L V8 introduced in 1937 which received a small revision giving it a extra four horsepower and a seven Newton meter more. But was dropped as there wouldn’t have been enough supplies to build both engines.
