Sven Gustaf Wingqvist was a Swedish engineer, inventor, and industrialist, and one of the founders of Svenska Kullagerfabriken (SKF), one of the world's leading ball bearing and roller bearing makers. Sven Wingqvist invented the multi-row self-aligning ball bearing in 1907.
Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, c. 1926
Wingqvist bearing
Sven Wingquist - oil on canvas by Oskar Spitzmüller, Vienna
SKF bearing field test on a Scania truck (1909). S. Wingquist on backseat right.
AB SKF is a Swedish bearing and seal manufacturing company founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1907. The company manufactures and supplies bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products, condition monitoring systems and related services globally.
Engineer Sven Wingqvist, co-founder of SKF (1876-1953)
Industrialist Axel Carlander, co-founder of SKF (1869-1939)
SKF office in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1940
SKF building in Schweinfurt, Germany (2012).