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The Fiat tractor company is now part of the giant CNH Global group which is the agricultural and construction machinery subsidiary of the Fiat Group.
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History
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Fiat started building tractors in 1919. But the parent company "Fabbrica Italiana de Automobili Torino "FIAT" was founded in 1899 to build cars but rapidly diversified. They started tractor development in 1910 but the First World war delayed the work. The first model called the 702 was launched in 1919 with a 30 hp 6.2 ltr. truck engine. The designas advanced as it used unit construction unlike most early machines with chassis. The tractor was a big machine and in Britain cost 5 x the Fordson price.[1]
This was replaced by the lighter 700 model in 1927 which also was built in a Crawler version the 700C
After the war smaller tractors were in demand and the Fiat LePiccola was introduced. followed by the modern Fiat 500 in the 1960s (Not the Car).
From the 1960 production grew rapidly with licence agreements to build machines in counties like Romania and Turkey.
Inthe 1970s a whole range of modern machines were introduced with the 100 series.
And in 1990 introduced the 90 series and became the biggest manufacturer in Europe after building 1/2 million tractors.
The company later sold some of the American Allis-Chalmers models as Fiats in the UK and then took over the Allis corporations UK business to form Fiat-Allis which was mainly Construction machinery.
Then in the 1991 Fiat merged the existing tractor division with the Ford New Holland Agricultural business that they bought off Ford when they decided to divest non-core businesses as the market had slumped in the late 1980s and a large investment was needed for new lines and the proposed Teir II engine emissions regs. After adding the Case IH business they formed CNH Global to compete with the giant AGCO group (which was partially the Allis Gleaner Corporation from the USA).
They Badge enginered the models fom the mid 1990s and launched the 66 series.
Tractor Model range
- Fiat 702 series - 1919-25 (2651 built)[2]
- Fiat 700 and the Fiat 700C crawler - 1926-52 (9985 built)
- Fiat LePiccola
- Fiat 55 and Fiat 55R Crawler - 1951-56 (3540 built)
- Fiat 25C Crawler 1951-56 (11937 built)
- Fiat 18 - 1958-62
- Fiat 21 - 1958-62
- Fiat 352 - 19 ? Compact crawler.
- Fiat 500 - 196?
- Fiat 505C Montagna Crawler tractor
Modern models
- Fiat 100.90DF 4-wd
- Fiat F140 - 1994-
Preservation tractors
Very few examples of early Fiat tractors are in UK collections. If you know of any please list them here!
The latter model Fiats in the Orange are now starting to become classed as a Classic and the odd high HP model has been preserved in semi retirement. Being used for ploughing matches and working days "play".
See also
- CNH Global for group history
- Shows and Meets
- Fiat-Allis
References
- other group co articles for basic history
- Magazines for model no. list
- ↑ Tractors of Europe by A.Morland & P.Henshaw, ISBN 1-84425-206-x
- ↑ Tractor Magazine price guide 2009
External links
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