Clas Ohlson company was founded in 1918 by the technically minded Clas Ohlson (1895–1979), as a mail order business based in the Swedish village of Insjön, Dalarna. Initially, only manuals and technical literature were sold, thus allowing people who lived in rural communities to obtain literature that would otherwise be unavailable. He opened his first shop in Insjön in 1926, but it was not until 1989, when the company opened a store in a shopping centre in central Stockholm, that it expanded into the retail business. The first store outside Sweden was opened 1991 in Oslo in Norway and in 1999, the
HSwMS Clas Fleming HSwMS Clas Fleming HSwMS "Clas Fleming" was a mine cruiser of the Swedish Navy from World War I until the Cold War. She was named after the 17th century Swedish admiral Clas Fleming. Commissioned in 1914, "Clas Fleming" was among the first Swedish warships to use Parsons steam turbines. As built it was armed with four guns in a superfiring arrangement: one at the forecastle, one - highly unusually - on top of its armoured conning tower, one on the poop deck, and a fourth at the stern. Up to 190 naval mines could be carried on the main deck.