SAAB Service Training Facility – Hingham, MA

Posted on 28. Jul, 2007 by Ryan in 1950-1959, Hingham, Massachusetts

Photo Credit: SAAB Motors, Inc.

In the United States, SAAB Motors, Inc. had their first official training facility in Hingham, Massachusetts. This SAAB Service training facility began operations shortly after the first shipment of two hundred and fifty of the first SAAB 93 models arrived for SAAB Motors, Inc. at the nearby depot, also in Hingham, Massachusetts.

According to the book, The SAAB Guide, it was none other than Rolf Melde, the chief engineer of SAAB Sweden who organized and operated this first stateside SAAB Service training school.

Here is a quote from the The SAAB Guide book about the service training facility.

“The men who attended it were learning how to service a car by means of the latest instructional aids, including special films and sectionalized mock-ups of the car and its unique engine.”

It is important to note that the first SAAB model 93 models were imported into the United States immediately following the successful victory of the Great American Mountain Rally that took place in New England in 1957.

What: SAAB Service Training Facility

Where: Hingham, Massachusetts (exact address not yet pinpointed)

When: 1956 – 1961

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