Picture gallery...cars, trucks , gasifiers, older and newer history

Some trucks:


Pre war experimental charcoal truck. The man in the white coat is Swedens first motor-journalist, John Nerén. The man to the right of him is Axel Svedlund himself. Around 1930.

Early charcoal truck, cost new with gasifier 2580$ 1933.

Scania-Vabis with Hesselman gasifier.

Swedish Scania-Vabis truck, helps in north Finland during war, observe the “insulation” on the gas cleaners.

Volvo timber-truck with Hesselman gasifier.

Road department dump-truck with Hesselman gasifier.

Scania-Vabis semi, with inline 8 (!) cylinder diesel, and Hesselman gasifier.

Scania-Vabis with Janka gasifier.

Scania-Vabis with Hesselman gasifier.

Late woodgas truck, Scania-Vabis L10, in front of Scania factory in Södertälje, built just after war ended, but liquid fuels needed about a year to start “flowing” again.

Timber-truck with Svedlund charcoal gasifier.

Volvo dump-truck with Imbert gasifier.
Observe the old cable excavator in background, with gasifier (arrow).

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Forgot one:


Ford AA, road department truck, with Aros gasifier.

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