4×4S.ORGTHE REGISTRY NAMED MODEL · 1961–90
NAMED MODELMilitary · OtherSweden

L3314 Pltgb 903 (Swedish Army)

The Swedish Army’s Laplander: the soft-top L3314SU adopted in 1959 as the Personlastterrängbil 903, the light terrain vehicle of the conscript army until the 1990s, with the L3315 radio car alongside.

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Sources & evidence
L3314 Pltgb 903 (Swedish Army) — The Volvo L3314, Swedish military designation Personlastterrängbil 903. The Radiopersonterrängbil 9033 was the communications and command version. It had a diffArmémuseum · CC BY 4.0 ↗
BASE VEHICLEL3314 Laplander (1961–70)BUILT BYVolvo (Lundby, Gothenburg)IN SERVICE1961–90OPERATED INSwedenPRODUCTIONMost of 7,737LAYOUT4 wheels · 82.7″

The record

The Pltgb 903 was the Laplander’s reason for being: Sweden bought the bulk of the 7,737 L3314s and all 1,116 L3315s for its army and home guard, and surplus vehicles went to Swedish and foreign civilian owners from the 1980s.

Specification

MANUFACTURERVolvo (Lundby, Gothenburg) ↗
plant, Gothenburg
MANUFACTURED1961–90
ENGINE1.8-litre B18 four
PRODUCTION RUNMost of 7,737
COUNTRY OF ORIGINSweden
OPERATED INSweden
STATUSout of production
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEL3314 Laplander and C202
FAMILYL3314 Laplander and C202
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE82.7″
BODY STYLEsoft
CATEGORYMilitary · Other

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Variants & colours

Base model variants

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Sources

  1. 1Volvo Laplander ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-22 · status: researched