Editing Tidaholm (section)

==History==
{{See also|Tidaholm Municipality|Tidaholms Bruk}}Historically, the city was known as Agnetorp. Tidaholm was detached from Baltak parish as a merchant town (''[[köping]]'') in 1895. In 1910, it was established as the city of Tidaholm, and it has served as the seat of the much larger [[Tidaholm Municipality]] since 1974.{{cn|date=October 2022}} In 1997, its county name changed as well, when [[Skaraborg County]] merged with the counties of [[Gothenburg and Bohus County|Gothenburg, Bohus]] and [[Älvsborg County|Älvsborg]] to form [[Västra Götaland County]].<ref name=":1"/>

Up until the early 19th century, Tidaholm was primarily a farming community but, in 1799, an [[ironworks]] factory (Tidaholms bruk) was established on the site of the Holmagården forge, which had roots dating back to the Middle Ages, and merged with several other business to manufacture furniture, wagons and agricultural implements.<ref name=TV0291.42>{{cite magazine | ref = BS91 | title = Då var det gyllene tider i Tidaholm | trans-title = It was a golden age in Tidaholm | language = sv | magazine = [[Teknikens Värld]] | publisher = Specialtidningsförlaget AB | location = Stockholm, Sweden | page = 42 | date = 1991-01-24 | issue = 2 | volume = 43 | first = Björn | last = Sundfeldt }}</ref> Nearly a century later, one of the bicycle-making Lindström brothers spent time in the United States, studying the early car industry.<ref name=TV0291.42/> Once he returned to Sweden, the Tidaholmsbilen (the Tidaholm car) was the result, with most of the parts made at '''[[Tidaholms Bruk]]''', especially once local engine production began in 1914.<ref name=TV0291.44>[[#BS91|Sundfeldt 1991]], p. 44.</ref> Between 1903 and 1934, the factory produced about 6,000 cars, mainly trucks, buses, fire trucks and other heavy vehicles.<ref name=TV0291.46>[[#BS91|Sundfeldt 1991]], p. 46.</ref> Known as "Tidaholmarna," they were seen as far afield as Oslo and St. Petersburg.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tidaholm's museum and Tidaholm's Bruk Sweden |url=https://transportmuseums.com/museum/tidaholms-museum/|access-date=2022-02-20|website=transportmuseums.com/|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1868, the Vulcan match factory (Tändsticksfabrik AB Vulcan), was founded on Vulcan Island, one of Tidaholm's islands in the Tidan River. Although it was started with a little over 100 workers, by the early 1900s, it had become the largest manufacturer of matches in the world, and was employing more than 1,000 workers.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Vulcan Tidaholm | first = Björn | last = Stenberg|url=https://www.bjornstenberg.se/vulcan_tidaholm.php|access-date=2022-02-20|website=www.bjornstenberg.se}}</ref> Nowadays, '''Vulcan Tidaholm''' is the only remaining match factory in Sweden, with roughly 200 employees. Although the [[Lithography|Lithographic Art]] Workshop has taken over its former headquarters, it carries on Tidaholm's tradition of the lithographic arts that began with the design of intricate matchbox labels.<ref name=":3" />