Fiat Trattori
| Public | |
| Industry | Agricultural Equipment |
| Fate | Merged |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Founder | Giovanni Agnelli |
| Defunct | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Turin, Italy |
| Products | Tractors, Combines |
Fiat Trattori S.p.A. was a Fiat group company founded in 1919. Fiat Trattori was a constructor of agricultural equipment, and tractors in particular. Over its decades of history it established itself as Italy’s leading constructor and one of the biggest in Europe; in 1991 it took over Ford New Holland and adopted its name to increase its status on the world markets. In 1999 New Holland acquired Case Corporation to create CNH Global, in which Fiat Industrial was the majority shareholder until the two firms merged to create CNH Industrial in 2013.
The history of Fiat Trattori began in 1918 when it launched its first tractor, the Fiat 702, which had 30 horsepower. The model 702 was followed by the 702A, B and BN variants and then the 703B and 703BN. With these variants, in production until 1925, Fiat Trattori reached the milestone of the 2,000 units produced.
In 1929 the plant was selling tractors at the rate of more than 1,000 units a year.
1932 saw the launch of the first European crawler tractor, the Fiat 700C. In the same year, tractor production was transferred from Turin to Modena, where OCI (Officine Costruzioni Industriali) was founded. The first tractor produced at the new plant was the 702C with 28 Hp instead of 35, much lighter than the previous version. This tractor was to remain in production until 1950, with 4,000 units produced.
At the Modena plant, Fiat produced the Fiat 700C crawler tractor, offering impressive traction capacity thanks to the tracks which prevented it from sinking into wet ground.
In 1933 Fiat took over OM (standing for Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche) which produced both industrial vehicles and tractors.
In 1939, the Modena plant launched the first mass-produced tractor, the Fiat 40 Boghetto; thanks to an invention by Fortunato Boghetto, this tractor’s engine was able to operate on a variety of fuels (kerosene, diesel, alcohol, petrol, natural gas and gasifier gas).
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