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'Jakob,' Volvo's first car, rolls off line

JW
By:
Jack Walsworth
April 12, 2016 05:00 AM

Volvo’s first car, the ÖV4, leaves the company’s Lundby factory in suburban Gothenburg, Sweden, on April 14, 1927.

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