Year and place: 1912, Stockholm

ALC is one of those car makes surrounded by confusion.

E Lundvik & Co had a license to produce the french motor cycle car Bédélia in Sweden, which they sold in Sweden as ALC. The cars Lundvik & Co imported and sold also had the ALC mark on their radiators. (Cars that were french Renault and german Piccolo, Horch and MAF.)

But it seems that Lundvik & Co also made their own motor cycle cars.

ALC Type A was a 2-seater with a 2-cylinder engine on 8hp, weighing 150 kilograms. The driver was seated at the very end, with the passenger in front of him. The fact that the car was narrow was used in the advertisment, with statements that it could be driven even on very narrow roads and that it easily could be carried by two men over for example ditches. According to a leaflet the car could make 80 km/h.

One main target group for their marketing were apparently farmers. In the advertisment it is noted that it is easy to remove the front seat, to give space for the daily transports to the town with milk and other farm products. It is also told that after the trip to the town the car can be used to produce electricity and work as engine for threshing machines and other machines.

Type B was a 3-seater and Type C a cargo version, both with a 4-cylinder 16hp engine.

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