Jan G. Smith
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Jan G. Smith (...), was born in Västerås, Sweden. He was an engineer (M.Sc.) and mechanical designer that worked many years in the American automobile industry and returned to Sweden in 1924. He was involved in the Volvo project from its start in 1924 and worked for Gustav Larson approx. one year with the basic design for Volvo's first automobile, the ÖV 4. A lot of Jan G. Smith's original drawings for the Volvo ÖV 4 and other technical papers that he had collected in America, in the form of a private design book, are saved in the archive of the National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
He was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), together with Gustav Larson, "for their contribution to the national automobile industry in Sweden" in 1929.
[edit] References
- Title: Volvo Personvagnar från 20-tal till 80-tal, by Björn Eric Lindh, 1984. (Swedish language only). ISBN: 91-86442-06-6
- Title: Volvo Göteborg Sverige, by Christer Olsson, 1996. (Swedish language only). ISBN: 3-907150-57-0
