About Scania Fire Appliances/Apparatus
Welcome to the Scania Fire Appliances Flickr Group. This Group is designed for people to share their photos of various Scania Fire Appliances (new and old) from where ever they can be found. Please share your photos so others who are Scania Fire Appliance Fans can see them.
More Information about Scania:
Scania AB is a European manufacturer of heavy trucks (British English: lorries), buses, and diesel engines, based in Södertälje, Sweden. It became the ninth brand in the Volkswagen Group, after Volkswagen raised its voting stake in the company to a controlling 68.6% and shareholding to 37.73% in a deal that was approved by regulatory bodies in July 2008.
The company was founded in 1900 as Maskinfabriks AB Scania in the town of Malmö in southern Sweden. Scania is Latin for the province of Skåne. In 1911 Scania merged with another automobile and truck manufacturer, Vagnsfabriks Aktiebolaget i Södertälje (founded in 1891) (VABIS) of Södertälje in mid-east Sweden, to form AB Scania-Vabis. After the Second World War, Scania-Vabis also imported Volkswagen cars under the banner of "Svenska Volkswagen AB".
In 1969, Scania-Vabis merged with SAAB, to form Saab-Scania AB. At this time, the Volkswagen subsidiary was renamed "V.A.G. Sverige AB". When Saab-Scania was split in 1995, the name of the truck and bus division changed simply to Scania AB. In 1999, Volvo attempted to buy Scania using some of the cash received from the Ford buyout of Volvo Cars, but the acquisition was eventually withdrawn.
Currently the largest shareholder in Scania AB is the Volkswagen Group, with 37.73% of the capital and 68.60% of the voting shares, making Volkswagen the controlling shareholder, and Scania a subsidiary of Volkswagen.[3]
Scania produces only heavy trucks (i.e. over 16 metric tonnes or Class 8 in the US), and heavy buses (over 12 tonnes), and is the world's third largest make in these two segments. It exports its trucks and buses to over 70 countries.
View the Scania Corporiate website at: www.scania.com/products/trucks/special_vehicles/fire_and_...
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