Iveco S.p.A., an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian multinational transport vehicle manufacturing company with headquarters in Turin, Italy. It designs and builds light, medium, and heavy commercial vehicles. The name IVECO first appeared in 1975 after a merger of Italian, French, and German brands. Its production plants are in Europe, China, Russia, Australia and Latin America and it has about 5,000 sales and service outlets in over 160 countries. The worldwide output of the company amounts to around 150,000 commercial vehicles with a turnover of about €10 billion.
Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company. It was founded in 1899 in Milan as Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche to manufacture railway rolling stock and car production began in 1918. It disappeared as such in 1975, subsumed into Iveco, but still exists as a forklift builder.
Six-wheel drive is an all-wheel drive drivetrain configuration of three axles with at least two wheels on each axle capable of being driven simultaneously by the vehicle's engine. Unlike four-wheel drive drivetrains, the configuration is largely confined to heavy-duty off-road and military vehicles, such as all-terrain vehicles, armored vehicles, and prime movers.
The automotive industry in the Soviet Union spanned the history of the state from 1929 to 1991. It started with the establishment of large car manufacturing plants and reorganisation of the AMO Factory in Moscow in the late 1920s–early 1930s, during the first five-year plan, and continued until the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991.
An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres. It may be wheeled, tracked, or half-tracked.
The BA-27 was a Soviet first series-produced armoured car, manufactured from 1928 to 1931, and used for scouting and infantry support duties early in the Second World War. The BA-27 was a heavy armoured car, having the same turret and armament as the first Soviet tank, T-18, manufactured at the same time: the main gun was a modified copy of the French 37 mm Puteaux SA 18 cannon, and it was supported by an additional machine gun.
The Fiat 306 was an Italian bus produced by Fiat Veicoli Industriali from 1956.
The Cacciatori d'Africa were Italian light infantry and mounted infantry units raised for colonial service in Africa. Cacciatori units later served in Somalia, Eritrea, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica for the Italian colonial empire. Partially mechanised in the early 1920s, the Cacciatori d'Africa remained part of the Regio Corpo Truppe Coloniali until 1942.
Tanks have been employed by the military forces in Italy since their first use in World War I. They have had continued use in wars after and are still used through the modern day. The C1 Ariete is the current main battle tank of the Italian Army.
The Lancia 1Z was a light military truck produced by Italian manufacturer Lancia between 1912 and 1916. From a mechanical standpoint, it was closely related to the 1913 35 HP Theta passenger car. It was Lancia's first military vehicle.
The Fiat 666 was a heavy truck produced by the Italian Fiat Veicoli Industriali.
The Fiat 665NM protetto (protected) or scudato (shielded) was a wheeled armoured personnel carrier, produced in Italy and employed during World War II by the Royal Italian Army, the National Republican Army and the Wehrmacht.
Alfa Romeo A15 / A19 / A38 / F20 are a discontinued line of utility trucks, or lorries, produced by Alfa Romeo from 1967 to 1974.
The AMO-F-15 was a light truck based on the Italian Fiat 15Ter made at the AMO-plant in Moscow in the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s. It was the first Soviet truck to be produced in the first series, with a total of more than 6,000 units made between 1924 and 1931. Different models were built based on the vehicle: flatbed trucks, omnibuses, fire engines, ambulances and armored versions for the military.
The Fiat-Terni Tripoli, also known as the Terni armored car, Fiat Terni, Fiat Tripoli, and Fiat Libia, was an armored car used in the colonial theater by the Royal Italian Army during the Interwar period and World War II.
The Spanish armored vehicle Schneider-Brillié model 1909 was the first armored vehicle to ever enter battle.
The Junovicz P.A.1 was an armored car of Austria-Hungary, designed by Hauptmann Junovicz. Five were built.
The Romfell armoured car was designed by Hauptmann Branko Romanić and Oberleutnant Simon Fellner for the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1915, based on a Mercedes 37/90 PS chassis. Romanić and Fellner were supported by Lieutenant Emil Vidéky, Imre Kádár, and Lieutenants Ágoston and Fazekas. A private enterprise, the War Ministry was not informed of the car's construction until a Siemens and Halske radio was requested, at which point they became aware of the project and viewed it with disapproval. A favorable report was given by Oberleutnant Erich Kurzel Edler von Runtscheiner so construction proceeded, with the car being finished by the end of July, 1915 at the Automotive Replacement Depot in Budapest.
The Fiat 18BL was a military truck produced by Fiat for the Italian Army, starting in 1915, developed from the Fiat 18 truck.
