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Officine Meccaniche
Fate merged (as part of the Fiat Group) into IVECO.
Founded 1899
Defunct 1975
Headquarters Milan, Italy (HQ)
Brescia, Italy (Automotive)
Industry Automotive
Products Automobiles
Railroad locomotives and equipment (Milan)
Cars and Sports Cars (Brescia, before 1934)
Commercial Vehicles (Brescia, 1925)
OM Superba 665 1929 orange vr TCE

OM Superba 665 1929

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OM 120 truck

Officine Meccaniche (OM) was an Italian car, truck, tractor and locomotive manufacturing company, founded in 1899 in Milan as Societa Anonima Officine Meccaniche (SAOM).

The inception of the company had resulted from the merger of two companies,Grondona Comi & C and Miani Silvestri & C. Originally, OM manufactured railway stock. Car production started in 1918, using the plant of the former Brixia-Zust (Brixia-Züst), just after OM took over the Zust car company of Brescia, Northern Italy.

Fiat take-over and post-war years[]

OM was taken over by the Fiat Group in 1938 and in the following year passenger car production ceased, and OM became a commercial vehicle and train part manufacturer.

Main new product in the WWII post-war era was the Leoncino (1950) a light truck in the 2.0 to 2.5 tons range, which was an immediate success. It became the forefather of several series of heavier but structurally similar models, namely Tigrotto, Tigre, Lupetto, Cerbiatto and Daino, launched between 1957 and 1964. Bus chassis versions of several of these models were also available.

In the 60s and 70s the light and medium-weight OM truck ranges were sold in Switzerland as Saurer-OM or Berna-OM, in Austria as Steyr-OM, in France as Unic-OM, and in Germany as Büssing-OM.

The end of OM[]

In 1968 OM was definitively merged into the Fiat Group as a brand belonging to the Commercial Vehicles division, which also included Fiat and Unic.

In 1975 it was absorbed (as part of the Fiat Group) into IVECO and the OM brand disappeared from the truck and bus markets, although it still survives as an independent forklift manufacturer.


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OM Tractor Models
Model Year(s) Produced Horsepower Engine Type Photo Misc Notes
OM 2 T M
OM 35/40 50s
OM 35/40 crawler
OM 35/40 C crawler
OM 35/40 CL crawler
OM 35-40 R OM 35-40 R
OM 45R OM 45R
OM 50C crawler 1960s OM 50C crawler 2
OM 50CI crawler 1960s
OM 50R
OM 58C crawler
OM T/240
OM 480
OM 500
OM 512 R
OM 512 R Super
OM 513 60s
OM 513 R OM 513 R
OM 513 R Series 2
OM 540
OM 550
OM 555
OM 580
OM 600
OM 615 1960s OM 615
OM 640 64 hp (48 kW)
OM 650 1970s
OM 650 Special DT 1970s OM 650 Special DT MFWD
OM 655 CM crawler
OM 670 68 hp (51 kW)
OM 680 68 hp (51 kW)
OM 750 75 hp (56 kW)
OM 750 DT 75 hp (56 kW) OM 750 DT MFWD
OM 750 Special DT 75 hp (56 kW)
OM 780 78 hp (58 kW)
OM 850 1970s 85 hp (63 kW) OM 850 - 1978
OM 850 DT 85 hp (63 kW)
OM 880 88 hp (66 kW)
OM 1180 115 hp (86 kW)
OM AD 5 crawler
OM Testa Calda 1920s

Former models[]

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