Sugga...

[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

My command car summer 1977. I was in command of an "ad hoc" Battalion made up by one Tank Coy from 10th Armoured Brigade, 78th Anti-Tank Coy from 38th Infantry Brigade and 4th Bn HQ Coy, 5th-6th Rifle Coys, 8th Logistics Coy and 11th Mortar Coy from the Royal Guards.

We had then two "Suggan" cars. The following year they were sold for scrap.

If I remember right they consumed 2,5 liter/10 km on good roads and some 5 liter cross-country. Usually they could not be driven quicker than 80 km/h, but once in 1965 I managed to reach 103 km/h for one hour (totally stright highway in the far north of Sweden).

Photo summer 1977 north of Stockholm. On the roof a 7,65 mm LMG M/1958 Fabrique Nationale.