New 2017 Volvo V60 Cross Country For Sale in Cheshire Serving Pittsfield, North Adams, Lenox

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The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo) (stylized as VOLVO) can be a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity may be the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it absolutely was the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also operating out of Gothenburg, was a part of AB Volvo until 1999, when that it was sold towards the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 it is owned by the Geely Holding Group, a Chinese multinational automotive manufacturing company. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden.The company was listed within the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was about the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.Volvo was established in 1915 being a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however the Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout with the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, as his or her beginning. The building remains.The brand Volvo was originally registered as being a trademark in May 1911 together with the intention to be utilized for a new compilation of SKF ball bearings. It means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere". The idea was short-lived, and SKF chosen to simply use its initials because trademark for many its bearing products.In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, an SKF sales director, as well as a KTH Royal Institute of Technology educated engineer Gustav Larson, the 2 founders,[clarification needed] made a decision to start construction of the Swedish car. They created to build cars that can withstand the rigors from the country's rough roads and cold temperatures.AB Volvo began activities on 10 August 1926. After one full year of preparations relating to the production of ten prototypes, the firm was prepared to commence the car-manufacturing business inside the SKF group. The Volvo Group itself considers it were only available in 1927, in the event the first car, a Volvo ÖV 4, rolled away from the production line with the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg. Only 280 cars were built that year. The first truck, the "Series 1", debuted in January 1928, just as one immediate success and attracted attention away from country. In 1930, Volvo sold 639 cars, along with the export of trucks to Europe started right after; the cars didn't become recognized outside Sweden until after World War II. AB Volvo was introduced in the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935 and SKF then made a decision to sell its shares within the company. By 1942, Volvo acquired the Swedish precision engineering company Svenska Flygmotor (later renamed as Volvo Aero).Pentaverken, that had manufactured engines for Volvo, was acquired in 1935, providing a good supply of engines and entry to the marine engine market.The first bus, named B1, was published in 1934, and aircraft engines were added on the growing range of products for the beginning with the 1940s. In 1963, Volvo opened the Volvo Halifax Assembly plant, the primary assembly plant within the company's history away from Sweden in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.In 1950, Volvo acquired the Swedish construction and agricultural equipment manufacturer Bolinder-Munktell. Bolinder-Munktell was renamed as Volvo BM in 1973. In 1979, Volvo BM's agricultural equipment business was sold to Valmet. Later, through restructuring and acquisitions, the rest of the construction equipment business became Volvo Construction Equipment.

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