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◊ 2022-10-23 10:01 |
This is an interesting bus indeed, but somewhat difficult to explain. In 1932 a coach company was founded that called GDG (= Trafikförvaltningen Göteborg-Dalarne-Gävle) (ENG: The traffic management for Gothenburg-Dalecarlia-Gavle). It grew to be quite substantial, but to be able to carry on it needed many buses. One manufacturer that provided those was Lier Karosserifabrikk (a Norwegian coach builder in Drammen). The above one was originally developed during the years 1969-1970 in collaboration between GDG and Lier. About 25 coaches plus one experimental one was built in Drammen with production start on January 17, 1971. By the late 60’s GDG was by far the biggest customer, if not the only one. Because of that, the owner of Lier, Gunnar Ruud (1921-), decided to sell the company to GDG and move the manufacturing process to Kungälv, not far from Gothenburg, in Sweden. From 1972 the manufacturing took place, under the leadership of Gunnar Ruud, at the facilities of Alpus Släp, a trailer manufacturing company in Kungälv, near Gothenburg. The coaches built in Sweden were virtually unchanged compared with the Norwegian built ones, with one exception; the Lier badge disappeared. However the trailers became less profitable over time while the coach manufacturing was successful and needed bigger space. Finally only coaches were made and because of that GDG coach building company changed their name to Alpus from 1982 and the production continued until 1990. According to https://forum.omnibuss.se/index.php?topic=51630.0 about 142 coaches were made by GDG (probably not counting the 26 made at Lier) and about 337 by Alpus. The coaches were mostly made on Volvo B58 chassis but perhaps a few Scanias were built as well. But it couldn't have been many Scanias; I haven't seen one, anyway. And I cannot find one on the net. Most of the above has been taken from “GDG Biltrafik AB 1932-1982 De första 50 åren”, minnesskrift, Kungälv, 1983, Nermans trycksaker. This has a 1971+ body by GDG very likely on a Volvo B58 chassis. Origin Sweden and Norway? https://forum.omnibuss.se/index.php?topic=72605.0 Link to "digitaltmuseum.se" https://www.gdgbuss.com/ -- Last edit: 2022-10-23 18:46:56 |
