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International Volvo Photo Locations Part 509

2002 – Volvo S80 at Afrikaans Language Monument on Gabbema Doordrift St in Paarl South Africa 🇿🇦.
(Great photography by Martijn Oort).

2022 – Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl

2022 – Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl

The Afrikaans Language Monument (or Afrikaanse Taalmonument) is located on a hill overlooking Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Officially opened on 10 October 1975, it commemorates the semicentenary of Afrikaans being declared an official language of South Africa separate from Dutch. Also, it was erected on the 100th anniversary of the founding of Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (the Society of Real Afrikaners) in Paarl, the organisation that helped strengthen Afrikaners’ identity and pride in their language. The monument was used as a filming location for the Twelfth series of Doctor Who.

The monument consists of various tapering structures of a convex and concave nature, symbolising the influences of different languages and cultures on Afrikaans itself, as well as political developments in South Africa, as follows:

Clear West – the European heritage of the language
Magical Africa – the African influences on the language
Bridge – between Europe and Africa
Afrikaans – the language itself
Republic – declared in 1961
Malay language and culture

Photo from BMW campaign titled ‘1955, 1936, 1956, Welcome to dontknowwhere, The other end…’ was published in Argentina in April, 2008. It was created for the BMW, by ad agency TBWA.

More information at en.wikipedia.org and taalmuseum.co.za.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 508

2008 – Volvo S60 at Iziko Old Town House Museum on Greenmarket Square and Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Iziko Old Town House Museum on Greenmarket Square and Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa (Google Streetview)

Iziko Old Town House Museum is located on Greenmarket Square and Burg Street in Cape Town, South Africa.

Situated in the hub of Cape Town on Greenmarket Square, the Michaelis Collection is housed in the former City Hall (the Old Town House), which was built in 1755 in the Cape Rococo style.

Donated by Sir Max Michaelis in 1914, the Michaelis collection consists of a world-renowned selection of Netherlandish art from the seventeenth-century Golden Age. There are works by Frans Hals, Jan Steen, Jacob van Ruisdael, Anthony van Dyck and numerous others.

The role played by building and collection in the cultural life of the Mother City is enhanced by its prominent position right in its historical centre on Greenmarket Square. But this role also continues after-hours, as the popular venue for chamber-music concerts and lectures on a variety of cultural topics, meetings by cultural organisations and receptions in the Van Dyck and Frans Hals Rooms or in the intimate courtyard behind the building.

And, in addition to the permanent collections, there is a consistent flow of special, temporary exhibitions widening the scope of the museum to cater for the cultural interests of all Capetonians and tourists alike. Thus, the Michaelis Collection in the Old Town House has become a place to which to return from time to time.

Greenmarket Square is a historical square in the centre of old Cape Town, South Africa. The square was built in 1696, when a burgher watch house was erected.

Over the years, the square has served as a slave market, a vegetable market, a parking lot and more recently, a flea market trading mainly African souvenirs, crafts and curios. Near the centre of the square is a hand-operated pump used to bring clean water to the surface from an underground river that runs through the city. During the apartheid era, Greenmarket Square was often the focus of political protests, due in part to its proximity to parliament, as well as the ethnicity of its traders and shoppers.

More information at iziko.org.za and en.wikipedia.org.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 507

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 at Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 at Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Old Mutual Gym West Campus on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands Cape Town, South Africa

Old Mutual Gym West Campus is located on Jan Smuts Drive in Pinelands, Cape Town in South Africa.

As far as I know, the Newport Fittness Club sign was added in post-production and never existed on this location.

The Old Mutual Gym is part of Old Mutual Head Office, a pan-African investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.

Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.

Smuts was born to Afrikaner parents in the British Cape Colony. Smuts was an internationalist who played a key role in establishing and defining the League of Nations, United Nations and Commonwealth of Nations.

More information at en.wikipedia.org and oldmutual.co.za.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 506

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD on Beach Road (near Sunset Beach) at Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD on Beach Road (near Sunset Beach) at Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Beach Road at Sea Point in Cape Town (Google Streetview)

Beach Road is located near Sunset Beach at Sea Point in Cape Town, South Africa.

Sea Point is one of Cape Town’s most affluent and densely populated suburbs, situated between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean, a few kilometres to the west of Cape Town’s Central Business District (CBD). Moving from Sea Point to the CBD, one passes first through the small suburb of Three Anchor Bay, then Green Point. Seaward from Green Point is the area known as Mouille Point (pronounced MOO-lee), where the local lighthouse is situated. It borders to the southwest the suburb of Bantry Bay.

Sea Point is the only seaside suburb of Cape Town with significant high-rise development and this, along with other factors, has made it a very popular residential area, or for investing in first or second homes and apartments.

More information at en.wikipedia.org and thelifestylehunter.com.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 505

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay near Cape Town in South Africa (Google Streetview)

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Mountainside Road towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay near Cape Town in South Africa (Google Streetview)

Mountainside Road leads towards Steenbras Lookout Point in Gordons Bay near Cape Town in South Africa.

The Steenbras Water Treatment Plant Lookout Point, involves a short drive up the mountain overlooking Gordon’s Bay, followed by a walk along a narrow ridge (if you are brave/steady enough) to a clearing that gives you a great view of the treatment plant itself, not to mention an even better view over Gordon’s Bay.

Steenbras Dam is well worthwhile as the view over this section of coastline is truly beautiful with Gordons Bay’s housing hugging the steep slopes and the flat lands of Somerset West beyond. This view, over this very large extent of azure blue, deepening to ultramarine, waters of False Bay, has a most calming and tranquil effect on one – a breathtaking experience, all from one vantage point!

Gordon’s Bay is a harbour town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is included in the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality as a suburb of the Helderberg region (formerly called Hottentots Holland). It is situated on the shores of Gordon’s Bay in the northeastern corner of False Bay about 58 km from Cape Town to the south of the N2 national road and is named after Robert Jacob Gordon (1743–1795), the Dutch explorer of Scottish descent.

Gordon’s Bay is the smallest of three towns in the Helderberg region (Somerset West, Strand and Gordon’s Bay), so named after the Helderberg Mountain which is part of the Hottentots-Holland Mountains which border the locality on two sides. Gordon’s Bay was originally named “Fish Hoek”, many years before the town of the same name, located on the western side of False Bay, was founded. Evidence of this can be seen on the outside wall of the local Post Office.

More information at gordonsbay.travel and en.wikipedia.org.

International Volvo Photo Locations Part 504

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Stellenbosch Aerodrome on Stellenbosch Flying Club Rd in Stellenbosch South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Stellenbosch Aerodrome on Stellenbosch Flying Club Rd in Stellenbosch South Africa 🇿🇦.

2009 – Volvo V50 T5 AWD at Stellenbosch Aerodrome on Stellenbosch Flying Club Rd in Stellenbosch South Africa 🇿🇦.

2022 – Stellenbosch Aerodrome (Google Streetview)

2022 – Stellenbosch Aerodrome (Google Streetview)

Stellenbosch Aerodrome is located at Stellenbosch Flying Club Road in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

It was established in 1973, the Stellenbosch Flying Club is located amongst the picturesque mountains and vineyards of the Cape Winelands.

They are one of the most beautiful airfields in the South Africa. Stellenbosch Flying Club is popular among aviators and aviation enthusiasts from all walks of life. The Club is a traditional flying club, where the core focus is to provide a home for the recreational and aspirant aviator, and promote General Aviation.

The Stellenbosch Airfield is also home to the Stellenbosch Flight Training Centre. A well-established facility that offers training from PPL to ATPL, and everything in between! This is possibly the most beautiful flight training school in the Western Cape!

The foundation of the flying club, later to become Stellenbosch Flying Club goes back to 1973, when a group of aviators got together in order to promote private/recreational flying in the Stellenbosch / Somerset West area.

With over 600 members and 160 aircraft based on the airfield, Stellenbosch has now grown to one of the biggest Flying Clubs in South Africa.

2009 – Piaggio P166S Albatross at Stellenbosch Airport

The ZS-NJU Piaggio P.166S Albatross grounded and abandoned at the Stellenbosch Flying Club.

The Piaggio P.166 is an Italian twin-engine pusher-type utility aircraft developed by Piaggio Aero. The aircraft model name was Portofino, and is also known as Albatross in South African military service.

P.166S Albatross: Coastal patrol, search and rescue version of the South African Air Force with longer P.166B-type nose and larger tip tanks, 20 built.

More information at stelfly.co.za and en.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 421

1972 – Volvo 145 de Luxe at Volvo Cars PVE Entrance on Gunnar Engellaus väg in Torslanda Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1976 – Volvo 244 L at Volvo Cars PVE Entrance on Gunnar Engellaus väg in Torslanda Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1981 – Volvo 240 GLT Estate at Volvo Cars PVE Entrance on Gunnar Engellaus väg in Torslanda Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪, with Gunnar Engellau, Håkan Frisinger (Head of Volvo Cars) and Björn Ahlström (Head of Volvo Cars America)

2022 – Volvo Cars PVE R&D HQ

2022 – Volvo Cars PVE R&D HQ on Gunnar Engellaus väg in Göteborg (Google Streetview)

Volvo Cars PVE Research & Development Head Quarters is located on Gunnar Engellaus väg 21 in Sörred, Torslanda on Hisingen in Göteborg, Sweden.

In this building the Research & Development teams are working, in close conjuction with the nearby Design Centre and the Factory.

Volvo Cars’ factory in Torslanda is a complete factory with a press plant, body factory, painting and assembly plant. The factory opened in 1964 and is approximately 450,000 square meters in size. Around 6,500 people work here to build our larger car models in the 60s and 90s series. The factory builds about 1250 cars per day. In addition to passenger cars, we also build special vehicles, such as police cars.

1981 – Volvo 240 GLT Estate at Volvo Cars PVE Factory where Håkan Frisinger (Head of Volvo Cars) hand over the keys of the 1 million Volvo delivered to North America to Björn Ahlström (Head of Volvo Cars America) on Gunnar Engellaus väg in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

As part of the team at Volvo Car Torslanda, you can work in production, logistics, finance, purchasing, personnel, communication and other areas. As an employee in production, you work in shifts – the factory has different shifts; day shifts, evening shifts and night shifts.

Vacancies at Volvo Car Torslanda are advertised in the Volvo Cars Job Portal.

Do you want to visit the factory in Torslanda during a guided visit? Welcome to contact the Volvo Car Visitor Center.

More information on www.volvocars.com/volvo-experience-centers and www.volvocars.com/torslandafabriken.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 420

1951 – Volvo PV445 B by Valbo at Tages Konditori on Mariagatan and Sannaplan in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

1951 – Volvo PV445 B by Valbo at Tages Konditori on Mariagatan and Sannaplan in Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪.

2022 – Tages Konditori on Mariagatan and Sannaplan in Göteborg (Google Streetview)

Tages Konditori was located on Mariagatan and Sannaplan in Göteborg, Sweden. Today in 2022, we will find Thai Tanic take away restaurant at this location.

Tages Konditori started in 1952 when Tage and Iris Svedberg bought Runa’s café. After a few years, in 1958, they moved into new premises and opened the café Tages, where coffee was traditionally served in a jug at the table. It was during the cafés’ heyday, when each block had its own café. In the 70’s, when the downturn in the industry was a fact, Iris and Tage took a whole new approach. They opened a hatch where they sold sausages and mash. At that time, it was daring to pick up food in the traditional café assortment. The success was a fact and you got two legs to stand on – a business idea that still holds true today.

On the Volvo PV445 B by Valbo:
With the A-model bumper but with head light frames from after the A-model, this should be a car from the B-serial. The A-model bumper is found on cars way up in the C-serial, but this car lacks the later indicators on the upper part of the pole behind the door. This car probarly is equipped with indicators type arrow and no arrow indicators have been found on Valbo built cars from later than the B-serial. The car is running for the bakers shop Tages Konditori in the background and they are selling the, for the time, well known Karusell cake. In one of the cars side windows it says: “Test our delicious Karusell cake”.
The back bumper is for sure taken from the PV 444 A, a solution seen on other Valbo cars, for example the car from Filips hovkonditori. The registration plate is of the kind car dealer used to get to run a car before registration. The plate is connected to the dealer and any car in his fleet so technical data cannot be fetched through the plate register for this specific car. Note that the car has chrome lists on the fenders, not found on any other Valbo built cars on this site. (Source: www.pvchassi.com

More information on tages.se and en.wikipedia.org and www.pvchassi.com.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 419

1953 – Volvo PV445 Duett at Engelbrektsgatan and Götabergsgatan in Göteborg Sweden 🇸🇪.

2022 – Engelbrektsgatan and Götabergsgatan in Göteborg (Google Streetview)

Engelbrektsgatan is an approximately 1.3 kilometer long street in Göteborg that runs from Heden, past Lorensberg and up to Vasastaden. The street was named in 1882 in memory of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.

Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson (1390s – 27 April/4 May 1436) was a Swedish nobleman, rebel leader and statesman of German ancestry. He was the leader of the Engelbrekt rebellion in 1434 against Eric of Pomerania, king of the Kalmar Union.

At Engelbrektsgatan you will find, among other things, Vasakyrkan with Vågens tjusning.

In the 55th block Glimmingehus, which today corresponds to Engelbrektsgatan 34 AC, was Göteborgs riding hall 1881–1934. The new riding hall in Böö was taken into use on October 31, 1937.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org.

Volvo Photo Locations Part 418

1953 – Volvo 445 Duett at Sankt Sigfrids plan in Örgryte Göteborg Sweden🇸🇪.

1953 – Volvo 445 Duett at Sankt Sigfrids plan in Örgryte Göteborg Sweden🇸🇪.

2022 – Sankt Sigfrids plan in Göteborg (Google Streetview)

Sankt Sigfrids plan is a traffic hub in Örgryte in Göteborg, Sweden.

Sankt Sigfrid’s plan is named after Västergötland ‘s patron Sankt Sigfrid. According to legend, in the 11th century he had the first Christian church built in the current Örgryte, which is said to have been on the same site as the current Örgryte old church right next to Sankt Sigfrid’s plan.

The place, which is also called Sanktas, is about 130 x 70 meters large, and got its name in 1925 when it belonged to the district Bö. But already in connection with the Anniversary Exhibition in Gothenburg in 1923, the term Sankt Sigfrid’s plan was used in the area. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a larger pond (approximately the same area as Örgryte old church) on the site of the current grassy roundabout, about 50 meters southeast of the cemetery wall.

1964 – Sankt Sigfrids plan (Göteborgs Stadsmuseum )

At the site, the streets Örgrytevägen, Danska vägen, Delsjövägen and Sankt Sigfridsgatan converge, as well as the smaller streets Santessonsgatan (tram only) and Olof Skötkonungsgatan. Along both sides of Santessonsgatan, Örgryte garden city spreads out, built in the 1920s. Sankt Sigfrid’s plan is numbered clockwise 1-8.

According to the original city plan from 1923, the place was to be designed relatively urbanly, characterized by rows of trees and an arched residential building to the east. Of this, only the tree line along the cemetery wall, as well as the buildings between Delsjövägen and Sankt Sigfridsgatan, were carried out.

On Sankt Sigfrid’s plan there is a small green area and a small wooden house that for many years housed a kiosk, Sankta kiosk, usually called Sanktas, but in the autumn of 2010 the premises became a fish shop instead.

In 1929, Göteborgs handelsbank built a villa on the eastern side of the site, in which a bank premises was housed on the ground floor. Today, SEB has the bank branch.

A 90 cm high bronze statue by Carl Milles, Genius, was placed in 1940 in the small park area next to the stop, but was stolen in the late autumn of 2001 after being submitted for repair. The statue is now in place again.

Sankt Sigfrid’s plan has been sung by Madness and After Shave.

More information on sv.wikipedia.org.