(Shall we continue from where we left off?.)
We write the year 1944; the war was still raging in Europe, but there was a shimmer of hope in these dark times. That everything would be over soon as Germany had a tough time defending from the allies as they were pushing in from Italy after its surrender and the Soviet Union
pushing them back and reclaiming their cities that had been taken by the Germans.
Despite the last contract ended in 1943 and it wasn’t easy to find any new contractors as they were almost isolated from the rest of the world due the blockade of the British and the Germans off the sea wasn’t making things easier for them. The factory was busy as every day with trucks driving in and out, but they weren’t heading to the normal loading zone but rather to an older building that has been repurposed by the company for aircraft parts.
Let me explain in 1938 our founder Ludvig seemingly knew that the company would be in a difficult situation during the second world war, but luckily he had a plan for this, which was to shift their focus on manufacturing airplane parts while it was doable it wouldn’t be necessarily an easy task as the employees didn’t have any experience with aircraft.
While Olle was first against the plan but after a lot of debating and thought, he changed his mind since there weren’t many other options open to them, so they went with Ludvig’s plan and assigned a majority of the workers to their new tasks and in 1939 the production began while there were quite a few difficulties at the start. After a while, they started to get the hang of the new machinery and could steadily raise the number of units they produced in a month, which presumably helped both parties in the war which is debatable if it was real or false but none of the founders have
acknowledge or denied it so far.
A rather rare logo that was used for documents, etc… during WW2 for their aircraft department.
But that is another story to be told, Of course, the company didn’t altogether abandon their engine department they only downsized the team to a handful of people and most of them occupied with producing spare parts for the engines and another finishing up the last prototypes that were in the works.
The first one was 1.3 Liter inline four producing around 40hp @3500RPM and 87NM @2500RPM.
The second and last one, for now, is a 772cc Inline four producing around 26hp @4200RPM and 51NM @2600RPM.
Surely those engines weren’t showing anything new then before, as they were only different from their capactiy and their power output. But thats what the prototypes where there for to be added in the range of engines to offer.So the company could get more new clients and investors to be able to grow.
It would be almost an over a year until the company were building new engines for the cars for the post world war 2 era.
(i would apoligize for the long wait, as i did plan to post this late january/ early feburary but due to work and problems with the pc and internet conncection seemingly dragged it out until now. I do plan on posting a least once a month or twice if doable.)