Swedish transport innovations (in 1905)

The beginning of the 20th century was a time of transport innovations also in Sweden. Below are three of them, introduced in 1905:

The new mail car on the route Stockholm - Berlin.

The interior of the new mail car.

The first Swedish mail delivery truck, serving the route Jerna - Trosa.

The first electric locomotive acquired by the Swedish State Railways.

A record breaking Scania truck (model 1909)

On its webpage Swedish Scania describes the reliability of its trucks:

But reliability and uptime don’t come out of thin air. They come from Scania’s long tradition of delivering exactly what your business needs.

It appears that Scania's claim is not unfounded. While looking for something else, I accidentally noticed this picture in the 26 September 1909 issue of the Swedish weekly Hvar 8 Dag:

The happy Scania "crew" on the road to Stockholm. 

The above Scania truck had in the same week finished the trip from Malmö in the South to the capital Stockholm - altogether 692 km -  in just 33 hours. This was a record for trucks in Sweden, which was duly celebrated. The journalist who described the trip was particularly proud of the fact that not only was the truck made in Sweden, but also the ball bearings - which were "of better quality than foreign ones" - were Swedish, too (most likely from SKF, which had been founded two years earlier. NNoN).