1895 - 1966
Jan G. Smith Swedish Engineer
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| First Name |
Jan
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| Middle Name |
G.
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| Last Name |
Smith
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| Birthday |
19th June, 1895
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| Birthplace |
Stockholm, Sweden
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| Died |
30th April, 1966
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| Place of Death |
Stockholm, Sweden
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| Zodiac Sign |
Gemini
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| Nationality |
Swedish
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| Occupation Text |
Engineer
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| Occupation |
Engineer
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Jan Gustav Salomon Smith, born 19 June 1895 in Stockholm, Sweden, died 30 April 1966 in Stockholm. In the literature he is known as Jan G. Smith. He was an engineer with a M.Sc. degree from KTH, Stockholm. For many years he worked in the American automobile industry and returned to Sweden in 1924. His experiences from the American automobile industry was probably the main reason why Gustav Larson asked him to join the team of engineers that started the design work for Volvo's first automobile, ÖV 4, in 1924. He worked for Gustav Larson in the temporary "design office" in Gustav Larsons private flat in Stockholm about a year. A lot of Jan G. Smith's original drawings for the Volvo ÖV4, the gearbox, the main chassi components and 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. After the Volvo project he was employed by ASEA in Västerås and later worked for the same company in Stockholm. Jan was replaced in the Volvo project by engineer Henry Westerberg that stayed with Volvo as a designer until 1980 at the age of 79 when he was retired.
