Fruits of a relatively short-lived collaboration between C.R.Nyberg, manufacturer of the Svea stove, and marketing entrepreneur Andreas Willander, this was actually the first incarnation of what was to become the classic Svea stove. The trade mark placed on these first modern Svea stoves, as seen above, was a Nyberg roarer burner flanked by the initials 'N' and 'W', Nyberg and Willander. Other than in respect of the provenance markings this Svea No.1 is identical to those marketed from 1908 onward under the Max Sievert name: This was the stove as found, I very nearly missed spotting its significance under all of the filth: But now it is back in working order although it will never be pretty: The distinctive Svea external NRV pump mechanism was patented by Nyberg at the very beginning of 1904. But by the time the first production models appeared later in the year the location of the external NRV access dome had been moved down to the side of the tank (it is shown on the top in the original patent drawings). Meanwhile Andreas Willander, who had been a salesman for B.A.Hjorth, had prepared the ground to leave B.A.Hjorth, apparently with the ambition to become to Svea what Hjorth had become to Primus. The fruits of the Nyberg/Willander collaboration finally hit the market just in time for the Christmas 1904 sales: (source: 'Varbergsposten' 8th Dec.1904) (During 1905 an '0' size stove was added alongside the No.1 (q.v.). By 1908, however, Willander's ambitions for Svea had been thwarted as he lost his marketing role with Nyberg's stoves to Max Sievert, who had already had the marketing contract for Nyberg's blowlamps.)
