The work of transcribing Norway's car book from 1935 is progressing steadily. We have just published well over 8,000 cars and their owners, bringing the number of transcribed car owners to almost 24,000.
Norway's car book 1935 you will find searchable under the service “Find family”. A scanned version of the book can be found on the Digital Archive's website.
The cars from Akershus are now searchable together with the car owners from Oslo and Østfold. During late winter/spring, the rest of Norway's car book 1935 will be transcribed and published on an ongoing basis.
In Norges bilbok 1935 you can not only find the name of the car's owner, but also his or her address. For the car itself, you can find the make, model year, purpose for which the car was used, registration number and location.
If you have relatives in Oslo, but have not found them among the car owners transcribed from the Oslo section of the book, you may find them now. It turned out during the transcription of several car owners in Oslo are registered under Akershus.
The Prime Minister owned his own car
Johan Ludvig Mowinckel retired as Norway's Prime Minister in 1935, and he was one of several «celebrities» who drove around on Norwegian roads that year. In Norway's car book 1935 we can read that at the same time he drove around in a 6-year-old car of the brand Horch.
The car above, which illustrates this text, was also driving around on Norwegian roads in 1935. In Norway's car book from 1935, we can read that it was a van, registered to an Aug. Olsen, which we can also read is written on the side of the car.
Aug. Olsen was a registered resident of Teglverksgaten 2 in Oslo and the car was a Chevrolet 1928 model.
Information about cars that our ancestors owned can be a fun spice to your family history and give more life to the lives that they lived. If your relatives didn't own a car themselves, perhaps they worked for a company that did?
Norway's 1935 car book also contains the names of a number of companies, as long as they had one or more cars. For example, Vinmonopolet, which was located in Rådhusgata in Oslo, had 27 cars in its inventory.
It costs both time and money to have genealogical sources transcribed. This means that a search is free, but if you want to see more than the name of the owner, you must have a subscription to Slekt1. We appreciate everyone who takes out a subscription and contributes to making Slekt1 even better.
