But he had a flash of genius – AB Urfabriken was going to change market and start manufacturing fishing reels. Göte Borgström was concerned to say the least. The second world war broke out and made the export of taximeters impossible. The future looked bright, but as you may know, other vehicles than taxicabs starting rolling on the European roads that year. The new Record-Taximeter model 39 was ready in 1939 and was a technical marvel. For five years, Göte and his engineer colleague Stig Svensson, worked on creating the lightest, most compact and modern taximeter on the market. Eight years later Carl-August passed away at the age of 63 and his son Göte, by then 30 years old, took over. In 1926 the company started making taximeters for horse wagons and taxicabs. But things didn’t go as planned for Hammarlund – the bills piled up and the company went out of business after 33 years, in the year 1920. Halda expanded and also started manufacturing “telur”, taximeters, typewriters and knitting machines. These sought after pocket watches are today highly valued on the collectors market. They were given international recognition when receiving gold medals at the world fairs in Chicago 1893, Stockholm 1897 and Paris 1912.

Halda manufactured both gold and silver plated pocket watches. Hammarlund thought Svängsta was the ideal location to build a factory, the scenery was beautiful, and the big lot was only 800 Swedish krona, a bargain in those days for being so close to the Mörrum river. This was the year Henning Hammarlund started Sweden’s first pocket watch factory – Halda Fickurfabrik AB, after years of studying at the Swiss Watch making school in Geneva which at the time, was the finest school of its kind. We start our journey with a historic flashback and rewind the clock 134 years, to the year 1887. But did you know it all started with pocket watches? Ambassadeur, Toby, Hi-Lo and Reflex are all well-known product names.

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