| 词条 | Björn Prytz |
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Björn Gustaf Prytz (2 April 1887 – 22 June 1976) was a Swedish industrialist in the early 1900s and from 1938 to 1946 Minister Plenipotentiary in London for the Swedish government. Prytz, whose mother was British, spent much of his youth in London[1] and attended Dulwich College from 1898–1902.[2] He was employed 1913 at S.K.F. as marketing manager. He became managing director for S.K.F. around 1921–22. Björn Prytz was the man behind the name Volvo during the time he was the managing director for SKF sales company in America 1914–18. Volvo was registered as a trademark, as well as a subsidiary company to SKF, in May 1915 (the application for Volvo as a trademark was sent to PRV on May 11), with the intention to use it for a new developed low-price ball bearing for the automobile industry in the America. However, these plans were never realized and the SKF name and logotype (as it looks today) was used instead for all type of bearings produced by SKF. The name and company Volvo was almost forgotten but came into use when the SKF employee Assar Gabrielsson (SKF sales manager) and engineer Gustav Larson finally had succeeded to convince SKF that they should start to manufacture automobiles within SKF. AB Volvo, as an automobile company, was founded 10 August 1926 at a board meeting held in Hofors when SKF decided to invest in the company and use it as a subsidiary company within the SKF-group. On 17 June 1940 he had a meeting with the British Foreign Office Minister Rab Butler, at which the possibility of Britain making a compromise peace was discussed. The details of this meeting were reported in a telegram sent to the Swedish government the same day. This exposure of the defeatist tendencies of some members of the Cabinet deeply embarrassed the British government. Butler and Lord Halifax claimed that Prytz had misconstrued their position, but this does not appear to have been the case. [3] References{{s-start}}{{s-dip}}{{succession box |before=Hans Gustaf Beck-Friis |title=Envoy of Sweden to the United Kingdom |years=1938–1946 |after=Erik Boheman}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Prytz, Bjorn}} 6 : 1887 births|1976 deaths|Volvo people|Swedish businesspeople|Ambassadors of Sweden to the United Kingdom|People from Gothenburg |
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