Originally posted by emile
So the AB not means two first letter taken from two different words whereas taken from single word AktieBolaget?!

AB mens Stock Company, as toreishi posted. It simply means there are stocks for this company to be bought and sold.
In 1941 Volvo aquired the majority of stocks on Svenska Aeroplan AB, and the name was changed to Svenska Flygmotor AB (SFA), later Volvo Flygmotor and
now Volvo Aero.
Source:
sv.wikipedia.org... (Swedish)
This company has changed names many times it would seem... Now I'm not really into this enough to research the history of all these companies (the
wiki is in swedish and we all know this is a silly language!:lol

- Mod note: Norwegians are allowed to make fun of Swedes and visa versa without it
being offensive. It's a special agreement between out people

but as far as I know Volvo and Saab are the two manufacturers of military planes
in sweden. As with toiletpaper, planes is one of the things Sweden does well.
Edited to remove my own blindness...
[edit on 20-12-2006 by DrLeary]