Volvo PV800 Series

The Volvo PV800 Series, nicknamed the Sugga, meaning the Sow, was a taxicab that Volvo built from 1938 until 1958 and that dominated the Swedish taxicab market during the 1940s and 1950s. It began with the PV801, which had a glass partition between the front and rear seats, and the PV802 without one, replacing the TR670 Series with an all-new chassis and body but the same side-valve engine. The PV802 could serve as a spare ambulance, and commercial chassis versions were built for proper ambulances. In 1947 the PV821 to PV824 followed with the slightly stronger ED engine, and in 1950 the PV831 to PV834 arrived with a new front similar to the PV444. During the Second World War the mechanical parts of Volvo's small trucks were combined with the Sow body to make a four-wheel-drive military off-road vehicle, and the TP21 followed in 1953. Volvo left the taxi market unattended after 1958.