Swedish saws

My good lady wife recently picked up a back saw at a garage sale for me. Through the rust I could see what looked to be either Skandinavian or Dutch script. Have just set to with abrasive paper and have unearthed (unrusted?) and etch for Stridsberg and Biork of Trolhattan, Sweden.

Anyone know anything about this company, their history, quality of their saws?

Cheerio,
Virg.

 

Hi Virgil,

I can help you very little: others on this site have information to a lot more things than I do, but a quick "Googling" comes up with the 2nd name as "Bjork" as in the Icelandic singer I think, and a site called tommyfotografen which looks like a photo taken in 1987 where there are images of some quite impressive circular saw blades. (And some men having a tea break).

I did find another site on the same "google",

http://www.trollhattan.se/Startsida...onytor/parker/Karl-Johans-park/Vapnet-1947--/

which refers to Stridsberg and Birch being in Trollhatten for 100 years since 1968.

Hope this helps in the meantime,

Fred

 

This is the description from http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsberg_&_Biörck translated by google:

Stridsberg & Biörck was a firm that was founded in Torshälla 1868 , but in 1879 moved production to Trollhättan . Firman var först med härdade sågblad och maskinknivar i Sverige . The firm was first covered with hardened blades and machine knives in Sweden .

Vattenkraften i Torshälla är begränsad och sågbladen krävde mycket energi utöver den mänskliga. Hydropower in Torshälla is limited and the blades took a lot of energy in addition to the human. När ingenjör Ernst Stridsberg kom hem från ett affärsbesök i USA 1876 och fick höra att några sågverk i Trollhättan var till salu, reste han från Göteborg och köpte Gullöfors bruks tomt och deras andel i Gullöfallet . When the engineer Ernst Stridsberg came home from a business visit to USA in 1876 and was told that no sawmill in Trollhättan was for sale, he went from Gothenburg and bought Gullöfors plant site and its proportion of Gullöfallet . Alla maskiner och inventarier i Torshällafabriken tillsammans med arbetare och deras familjer skeppades iväg på två förhyrda fartyg och fraktades på Göta älv direkt till Trollhättan. All machinery and equipment in Torshälla factory with workers and their families were shipped off in two leased vessels and were transported by the River Göta directly to Trollhättan. I de första fabrikerna i Trollhättan fick man plåtvalsverk och stängjärnsvalsverk och 1885 installerades martinugn . In the first factory in Trollhattan had to steel mills and close the iron mills and 1885 installed hearth . År 1907 uppnådde man för första gången 1 miljon kronor i omsättning. In 1907 we achieved for the first time one million dollars in turnover.

Stridsberg & Biörck kom att driva rörelse med elektriska smältugnar, valsverk, stålmanufaktur och mekanisk verkstad. Stridsberg & Biörck came to run the business with electrical furnaces, rolling mills, stålmanufaktur and machine shop. Produktionen omfattade sågblad, maskinhuveljärn, maskinknivar. 1917 uppgick företagets export till 1,2 miljoner kronor. Production included blades, maskinhuveljärn, machine knives. 1917 , the company exports to 1.2 million. Man hade 35 ingenjörer, tjänstemän och förmän anställda samt 450 arbetare. We had 35 engineers, officers and supervisors and employees 450 workers. Under den ekonomiska depressionen sjönk arbetarantalet till cirka 200 ( 1935 ), för att 1945 öka till 310. During the recession, the number of workers dropped to about 200 ( 1 935 ), for 1945 to rise to 310th År 1966 återfanns 425 arbetare vid Stridsberg & Biörck; 1984 140. In 1966 again, there were 425 workers at Stridsberg & Biörck, 1984 140th

"Stridsbergs" , som företaget oftare kallades i folkmun, tillverkade hade sina tidigaste fabriklokaler i Göta älv , och ruiner efter dessa syns idag i fallfåran . "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 . Senare flyttade de till Källstorp på västra sidan om älven strax norr om järnvägsbron. Later they moved to Källstorp on the west side of the river just north of the railway bridge. Biörck, som återfinns i firmanamnet, var en ung ingenjör som var med och startade företaget men som snart lämnade kompanjonskapet. Biörck, which are contained in the company name, was a young engineer who helped start the company but soon left the partnership.

Ernst Stridsberg avgick som VD 1918 och efterträddes av ingenjör JO Åqvist. Ernst Stridsberg resigned as CEO in 1918 and was succeeded by engineer JO Åqvist.

Lokalerna som finns kvar idag används av några mindre företag. Premises that remains today is used by some smaller companies.

I would like to see the saw.

 

A modern "AB STRIDSBERG & BIORCK"

www.woodworkforums.com/f152/backsaw-sweden-166630/