Miani e Silvestri&C-A.Grondona Comi&C
Officine Meccaniche
1938 OM Titano Varesina
| Industry | Automotive |
|---|---|
| Fate | absorbed (as part of the Fiat Group) into IVECO. |
| Founded | 1899 |
| Defunct | 1975 |
| Headquarters | Milan, Italy (HQ) Brescia, Italy (Automotive) |
| Products | Automobiles Railroad locomotives and equipment (Milan) Cars and Sports Cars (Brescia, before 1934) Commercial Vehicles (Brescia, 1925) |
Officine Meccaniche-Milano-Brescia già Miani e Silvestri&C-A.Grondona Comi&C
Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car and truck 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.
Origins
1932 OM 469F
The inception of the company had resulted from the merger of two companies, Grondona Comi & C and Miani Silvestri & C.
1922 OM 469N
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 Zust car company of Brescia, Northern Italy. The first OM car, Tipo S305, primarily an old Zust model, appeared in 1918 with a 4712 cc four-cylinder side-valve in-line engine.
1930 OM 5 BODPL
The OM cars era
1932 ОМ-32 Autocarretta da Montagna, 4×4
Further models were Tipo 465 (with a 1327 cc four) in 1919, Tipo 467 (1410cc) and Tipo 469 (1496cc) in 1921. 1923 saw an all new model, Tipo 665 ‘Superba’ with a 2-litre six-cylinder engine. This model was extremely successful in racing – won top five positions in the 2-litre class in 1925 and 1926 at Le Mans but the greatest achievement was the victory in the first Mille Miglia race in 1927 where Ferdinando Minoia and Giuseppe Morandi lead home an O.M. ‘123’ at average speed of 48.27 miles per hour (77.7 km/h) for 21 hours 4 minutes 48seconds. Some cars were equipped with Roots superchargers.
1930 OM 665 Convertible
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.
1930 OM 665 F1
Fiat take-over and post-war years
1936 OM 5 BLDPL Interurbano
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.
1955 OM Leoncino Bartoletti GT Bus
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.
1938 OM Taurus 380 Portesi
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.
1937 ОМ Titano
The end of OM
1945 – OM BUD 5
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.
1951 OM CL 51
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.
1952 OM Taurus 340
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Great post about OM, just to add that in former Yugoslavia a lot of OM busses were assembled by local coachbuilders like TVT Boris Kidrič, Maribor (later merged with TAM (Tovarna Avtomobilov in Motorjev), Boris Kidrič, Maribor doesnt exist anymore but TAM operates by TAM Europe name), Avtomontaža, Ljubljana (they assembled most of OM buses, they dont exist anymore, they were largest coachbuilders in Yugoslavia and Slovenia later on but they ceased to exist) and Autokaroserija, Zagreb (they dont exist anymore). I dont discount that maybe more coachbuilders in Yugoslavia assembled them. All of the OM busses in Yugoslavia as far as I know were assembled during 1950s and 1960s and all the models were assembled (Lupetto,Leoncino,Tigrotto,Tigre,Orione,Super Orione,Titano(as far as I know in Italy Titano buses were newer assembled,only those form 1930s).
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Just to add, I recently discovered that Super Taurus was assembled,too in Yugoslavia. Most of OM buses had steering wheel on the right, Super Taurus and Titano had steering wheel on the left.
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