During the last decades of the 20th century you should have changed the name Gävle Varv to be the Future factory if you take a look in the rearwiev-mirror.

Maybe that could have saved the company but still, with one hundred and seventeen years in action the labourworkers still can hold the flag high.

If the salary had been the only attraction, the shipyard had been long gone a lot earlier.

"Or like someone expressed himself: At an accident in the production hall a labour worker fell down and struck his head on the hard floor, but he got two more crowns in his pay check when he was offered a job at the local employment exchange.

The spirit was like that, and that cuold not any director or owner change.The dining room,which was separated in two areas, one for the labour workers and one for the office employees.

This was not due to the office people that didnt want to get dirty on their butts. No this was not the reason, both the labours and the office people wanted to have it this way.