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	Saab Automobile - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The two cars are manned by Rolf Mellde and K G Svedberg in one and Greta Molander and Margaretha von Essen in the second.
		In Rikspokalen in November Rolf Mellde winns and Saab becomes the best marque team with Mellde, Svedberg and Greta Molander, who also wins the Ladies Class.
		Rolf Mellde comes in sixth and another Saab 93 in seventh place.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Saab_Automobile (1178 words)

	Wikipedia: Saab Sonett
		In the 1950s Rolf Mellde suggested that Saab should make a small number of open two seater sport cars as the racing regulations didn't allow Saab to tune their cars as much as was needed to be competative.
		Rolf Mellde designed the car himself and in utter secrecy built it in a barn in Åsaka outside Trollhättan.
		Only a very limited number of persons working on the project knew about it and it was done in their spare time.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/s/sa/saab_sonett.html (648 words)

	Saab Sonett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 1950s Rolf Mellde suggested that Saab should make a small number of open-top two seater sport cars as racing regulations did not allow Saab to tune their cars as much as was needed to be competitive.
		Only a very limited number of people working on the project knew about it and was done in their spare time.
		The name 'Sonett' is derived from an exclamation in Swedish by Rolf Mellde; "Så nätt den är", not from the sonnet type of poetry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saab_Sonett (1781 words)

	Saab 94 Sonett history at The SaabMuseum.com - a comprehensive and up-to-date history of Saab cars
		Mellde designed a special stressed-skin light metal box, in preference to the tubular frames used in sports cars of the day.
		Mellde and his colleagues had constructed this car in secrecy and, until that point, only the chassis had been out on trial runs.
		In November 1956 Rolf Mellde received an internal memo ordering that another five test cars be built.
	www.saabmuseum.com /sonett (660 words)

	AutoSpeed - Half a Century of Saabs
		After joining Saab in September 1946, Rolf Mellde - an engineer who specialized in engines and was a racing enthusiast - was put in charge of engine development.
		Even when the first cars were leaving the assembly line at the beginning of 1950, Rolf Mellde, the chief testing engineer with a background in motor sport, convinced the management that the best way to test the newly designed cars was to enter them in a rally on rough wintry roads.
		His idea was that in competition the drivers would be testing the car to the limit under extreme real-life conditions and weaknesses could quickly be detected.
	www.autospeed.com /cms/A_0595/printArticle.html (1861 words)

	SAAB 94 Super Sport Pictures
		It began as a private projects for Rolf Mellde who was a development engineer at Saab.
		Although Rolfs ideas were taken over officially, he and his smal group of assistants had to work on the projects in their spare time and not in the factory itself.
		Designed by stylist Sixten Sason and Rolf Mellde, the bodywork was made of glass fibre reinforced plastic - a completely new material for car bodies in 1956.
	jpowell.tripod.com /saab-94 (507 words)

	The world's top rolf mellde websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His grandfather August Johansson built one of the first cars in Stockholm and sold it to LM Ericson and his father, Evald Johansson, taught car mechanics at a school in Stockholm so it was natural that Rolf Mellde would work in the same field.
		Shortly after Curt Mileikowsky from ASEA, but it turned out he knew nothing about cars and Rolf decided that after 25 years at Saab he had done his share and left to work at Volvo instead.
		Rolf quicly formed a group to work on the new 200-series, Jan Willsgård designed a new front and the V8 was changed to an inline 4.
	www.websbiggest.com /dir-wiki.cfm?cat=rolf_mellde&tab=discuss (667 words)

	Saab rally successes at The SaabMuseum.com - a comprehensive and up-to-date history of Saab cars
		1950 Rolf Mellde/K G Svedberg and Greta Molander/Margaretha von Essen take part in the Monte Carlo Rallye in January.
		Greta Molander comes in 55th overall, Sth in her class and 2nd in the Ladies Class.
		In the Rikspokalen in November, at that time Europe's most gruelling event, Saab is the overall winner with Rolf Mellde, and is the best marque team with Mellde, Svedberg and Greta Molander, who also wins the Ladies Class.
	saabmuseum.com /rally (622 words)

	Trollhattan Saab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Saab 94, or Sonett, was primarily the inspired work of Rolf Mellde and a small group working in what can be best described as a timber shed.
		The book begins with the seed idea and development of the Sonett concept under the inspiration of Rolf Mellde.
		It's as if I were sitting down listening to the various players - Mellde, Sörensson and Müller-Ott - telling me their own story as opposed to reading the well-researched work of an English-speaking author.
	www.trollhattansaab.net /archives/2005/12/review_saab_son.html (1307 words)

	Saab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gunnar Ljungström, an engineer, and Sixten Sason, an industrial designer, designed a front wheel drive prototype which featured a very streamlined body.
		The two-cylinder two-stroke engine was designed by Rolf Mellde.
		The prototype carried a heraldic insignia which never saw subsequent use.
	www.automedia-online.com /collection/badges/quell/saab.htm (218 words)

	Generation SAAB \| "A Resource for Saab Enthusiasts"
		Only six Sonetts were built, the cars were intended to be competition cars.
		The story of the Saab 94, or Saab Sonett Super Sport, began in 1954 when Rolf Mellde started sketching a two-seat sports car.
		The Sonett, with it's light-metal chassis, plastic bodywork and a two-stoke engine tuned to deliver 57.5hp, and a top speed of 210 km/h, was a sensation.
	www.freewebs.com /accelerator458/earlysaabhistory.htm (2394 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Saab knew that they needed a special sport car to compete internationaly.
		The hole thing began as a private project by Rolf Mellde who was a development engineer at Saab.
		Rolf had his own smal group of assistants that had to work on there spare time because they could work in the factory.
	home.swipnet.se /danny/history4.htm (253 words)

	SAAB Sonett (1966-1974) - Phil Seed's Virtual Car museum
		The work on this car has been directed by Mr.
		Rolf Mellde, Chief Test Engineer at Saab's Motorcar Division at Trollhattan.
		An experimental series of 5 cars is now being built."
	www.philseed.com /saabsonett.html (310 words)

	Saabnet.com 300 HP 900T Returns to Rallying
		To Sweden's surprise, the rugged little car won.
		Over the next five decades, Saabs racked up many significant victories on the international rally circuit, piloted by such rally legends as Erik Carlsson and Rolf Mellde.
		In the U.S., Saab's rally heritage dates back to 1956, when three factory-fresh Saab 93 two-strokes conquered challenging weather conditions and harsh terrain of the 1,500-mile Great American Mountain Rally in the Northeast to take the overall win (as well as first, third and fourth place in their class).
	saabnet.com /tsn/press/597saabrally1.html (676 words)

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