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The purpose of this report is to describe the first provenance trial series of Pinus contorta that was established by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and the results that has been reported from this series. The series is called The Bang-series, after Carl Bang, the man who established it. The series was established during the years 1960 to 1962, on eleven sites in Sweden, from the southernmost county Skåne to the northernmost county Norrbotten. The number of provenances that was tested at each site varied from 10 to 23. On nine of the eleven sites, there was a comparison with one local provenance of Pinus sylvestris. The series has not been completely described earlier. In 2010, the trial was still active on three of the sites. The results from the Bang-series are in accordance with the results from trials that were established later.