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Scania

Södertälje, Sweden

Scania is one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks and buses. The portfolio of the Swedish group, which also operates production facilities in the Netherlands, France, Brazil, India and other countries with a total of around 50,000 employees, also includes vehicles for heavy haulage, and industrial and marine engines. Since the beginning of 2008, Scania has been majority-owned by the VW Group, which has been operating as Traton Holding since 2018. With its commercial vehicle brands Scania, MAN, Volkswagen and Navistar, Traton SE employs over 100,000 people worldwide.

Development of the logo

By Christoph Büch and Steve St.Schmidt (Berlin 2023)

The Scania Chronicle

Until 1968, the company, whose long history is traced in this chronicle, was called Scania-Vabis. The double name indicated the merger of two companies which, from 1911, continued together what they had started independently in 1902: the construction of commercial vehicles. Scania is therefore one of the pioneers in the construction of trucks and buses and has risen to become one of the world's leading commercial vehicle manufacturers in the more than 130 years since Vabis was founded in 1891. The following chronicle of the Swedish company is the result of a joint effort by our freelancer Christoph Büch from Berlin and Steve St.Schmidt, the operator of truckinfocus.com. All important Scania models are included in words and pictures.

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Advertising material

Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1934
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1935
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1945
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1946
Artwork from a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1950
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1950
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1950
Dutch-language Scania-Vabis ad by importer Beers from 1951
Front page of a Dutch-language Scania-Vabis brochure from 1952
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1953
Illustration from a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1955
Illustration from a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1955
Front page of a German-language Scania-Vabis brochure from Switzerland from 1957
Front page of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1957
Cover of a Scania-Vabis brochure from 1957