Svenska Automobilfabriken (SAF) was founded in Bollnäs

Bollnäs

Bollnäs is a locality and the seat of Bollnäs Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 12,455 inhabitants in 2005.- History :In written sources Bollnäs is traced from 1312, by a vicar named Ingemund who referred to it as Baldenaes, which means "the large isthmus," referring to the isthmus into a...

 in December 1919. They assembled US cars based on Pullman Motor Co

Pullman automobile

The Pullman was an American automobile manufactured in York, Pennsylvania by the York Motor Car Company from 1905 to 1917. Total production is estimated at anywhere from 12,000 to 23,000 cars. The Pullman automobile was named by industrialist A. P...

 chassises bought when Pullman went bankrupt in 1917 and fitted them with coachworks and adapted them for Swedish conditions. The engine was a Golden, Belknapp & Swartz giving 32 hp. It was fitted with a Stromberg

Stromberg

-People:*Lyndon Stromberg, American sculptor and designer*Karl Stromberg, the villain in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me*Joseph R. Stromberg, historian with the Ludwig von Mises Institute*Glenn Strömberg, Swedish soccer player...

 carburettor and had a 50 litre gasoline tank. People who earlier had worked on Rengsjöbilen

Rengsjöbilen

Rengsjöbilen , Jonsson or just "Bilen" was the names given to a series of ten cars made by sawmill owner Anders Jonsson in Rengsjö, Hälsingland between 1914 and 1916. The cars were two-seater in tandem. Length 320 cm and width 120 cm. Weight 445 kg. The engine was 75x100 cc...

were among the employees. SAF bought 40 Pullman chassises, and managed to build 28 SAF cars were built before the company went bankrupt in 1921. The remaining stock (with or without bodywork) was sold out over a few years.