They also started manufacturing stoves, sewing machines and bicycles. When military orders dropped after the Danish-Prussian War of 1864 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, Husqvarna begun making shotguns and hunting rifles. In 1867 the company became a limited company under the name Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag. Thanks to the Husqvarna branch, the annual production of barrels for muskets from the Jönköping arsenal increased from about 1,500 to over 12,000.Įventually all production was moved to Huskvarna and in 1757 the arsenal was privatized under the ownership of Fredrik Ehrenpreus. The plans were approved and put into work the same year. The new work should act as a branch of the Jönköping arsenal, where water supply had become irregular. In 1689 the manager at the nearby state arsenal in Jönköping, Erik Dahlbergh, suggested to the King that the crown should support the construction of a new milling work at the waterfalls just outside Huskvarna. History Ad for the company from 1899, for their velocipede.
Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag or simply HVA pronounced ⓘ) was a Swedish firearms manufacturing company in the town of Huskvarna by lake Vättern.
