OM (Officine Meccaniche) (1918 - )

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Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car andtruck manufacturing company, founded in 1918 in Milan as Societa Anonima Officine Meccaniche. It disappeared as such in 1975 subsumed into Iveco, but still exist as a forklift builder. In 1925 OM began to build trucks and buses, using licensed Swiss Saurer engines and other mechanical components. Ties with Saurer persisted all along OM life.
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OM (Officine Meccaniche)

History

1918		production started in using the plant of the former Brixia-Zust
* 1918	Milano	foundation by Grondona, Miani e Silvestri
1927		it absorbs O.M. Carrozzeria Suzzara-Mantova
1933		collaboration with FIAT
1967		it absorbed by FIAT

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=25409004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_25409004.html

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