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Husqvarna Celebrated 330 years in Business in 2019


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Recently read about their history in a motorcycle magazine. Believe town was was named after the Company.

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Don't forget the rifle and sewing machine side of the business, the saws stuff a little later in the history. For the Stihl fans, tractors and heating boilers part of their history along with a short spell of uncertainty for Andreas Stihl for his part in the Nazi war effort, like a lot of businesses in that period not a reflection on him or his family !

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14 hours ago, outinthewood said:

Don't forget the rifle and sewing machine side of the business, the saws stuff a little later in the history. For the Stihl fans, tractors and heating boilers part of their history along with a short spell of uncertainty for Andreas Stihl for his part in the Nazi war effort, like a lot of businesses in that period not a reflection on him or his family !

I didn't realise for many years that the 'H' symbol is actually modelled on the fore site of a rifle on a barrel! Links back to the armaments division. 

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Or the BMW propeller, Hitachi bomb site, Mitsubishi propeller(ZERO's), and the original VW symbol was a swastika....*cough*

I didn't see any 330 anniversary specials available, tho.

Anyone got a nice 572 they wanna let go of, btw?

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