Deviating slightly from Berg's for a moment....
On 11/10/2011, "Don Schwartz" asks about Swedish Saw Makers Stridsberg
and Biork...
Here are some pictures of the factory workers relaxing, and some nice
circular saws.. http://www.tommyfotografen.se/?s=Stridsberg
And Some information on the company history... depending on how good
your Swedish is, you might want to try google translate.
http://www.trollhattan.se/Startsida/Naringsliv/Tillstand-regler-och-
tillsyn/Fororenad-mark-och-byggnad/Stridsberg--Biorck/
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsberg_%26_Bi%C3%B6rck
Here's google's translation.. fwiw...
Stridsberg & Bi=F6rck was a firm that was founded in Torsh=E4lla 1868 ,
but in 1879 moved production to Trollh=E4ttan
Hydropower in Torsh=E4lla is limited and the blades took a lot of energy
in addition to the human. When the engineer Ernst Stridsberg came home
from a business visit to USA in 1876 and was told that no sawmill in
Trollh=E4ttan was for sale, he went from Gothenburg and bought the
Gull=F6fors plant site and its proportion of . All machinery and
equipment in Torsh=E4lla factory with workers and their families were
shipped off in two leased vessels and were transported by the River
G=F6ta directly to Trollh=E4ttan. In the first factory in Trollhattan
had to steel mills and close the iron mills and 1885 installed hearth .
In 1907 we achieved for the first time one million dollars in turnover.
Stridsberg & Bi=F6rck came to run the business with electrical furnaces,
rolling mills, Production included blades, machine knives. 1917 , the
company exports to 1.2 million. We had 35 engineers, officers and
supervisors and employees 450 workers. During the recession, the number
of workers dropped to about 200 ( 1 935 ), for 1945 to rise to 310 In
1966 again, there were 425 workers at Stridsberg & Bi=F6rck, 1984 140th
"Stridsbergs" ,"Battle's", as it often called in the vernacular, had
made his earliest factory premises in the Gota River , and the ruins of
these can be seen today in the case furrow . Later they moved to
K=E4llstorp on the west side of the river just north of the railway
bridge. Bi=F6rck, which are contained in the company name, was a young
engineer who helped start the company but soon left the partnership.
Ernst Stridsberg resigned as CEO in 1918 and was succeeded by engineer
JO =C5qvist. Premises that remains today is used by some smaller
companies.
Regards Ray
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>My only other old Swedish tool, apart from relatively modern Sandvik
>scrapers, is an 8 point skewback crosscut saw, marked Trollhattan No.
>100, made by A-B STRIDSBERG & BIORK, Trollhattan, Sweden (now better-
>known for Saab and Volvo Aero).
>
>The etching depicts waterfalls or a spillway with a powerline running
>across. As best I can make out, it reads as follows:
>
>" This saw is the latest product from the best and largest saw factory
>in Sweden. Guaranteed against all defects in material and in
>workmanship. Made from highest quality Swedish alloy charcoal steel."
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