Lindehults handelsträdgård: en fallstudie med fokus på järnvägens nytta för en ökad marknad

Abstract

This case study's aim was to strengthen the state of knowledge about how horticultural companies in Sweden used railway transports between 1900s and the 1950s. Economic theories and a micro-historical perspective have been used to analyze the collected source material, and to describe Lindehult's market garden. The investigation is based on document analyzes, qualitative interviews, archive studies and literature studies to evaluate the sources' information through a source pluralistic method. The work has been based on historical source material in the form of payment vouchers, giving an insight into how the company's products were transported by rail across Sweden. Sture Hjalmarsson's diary and interviews have described the case and events that affected the company internally. The archive and literature studies have placed Lindehult's market garden in a larger context. The result describes the strategies Hjalmarsson used to increase the company's competitiveness, events that affected the company and how transport on the railway and marketing played a large role in increasing the company's market.