Società Italiana Ernesto Breda

Società Italiana Ernesto Breda
Industry Engineering
Successor AnsaldoBreda
BredaMenarinibus
Founded 1886
Headquarters Italy
Products Transport aircraft
Bombers
Experimental planes
Air force trainers
Seaplanes
Ship
Locomotives
Subsidiaries Breda Meccanica Bresciana
IMAM
Website Breda
Logo for Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie as seen on car #4063 on the Washington Metro. This logo is accompanied with the text "Made in Italy by Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie S.p.A."

Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, more usually referred to simply as Breda was an Italian mechanical manufacturing company founded by Ernesto Breda in Milan in 1886. The firm originally manufactured locomotives and other railway machinery, but later branched out into armaments and aircraft. In 1962, it was nationalised as part of EFIM, but was liquidated in the 1990s. The bus and tram manufacturing division fused with Ansaldo to form AnsaldoBreda, the armaments division became an independent entity as Breda Meccanica Bresciana, as did the research division as Istituto Scientifico Breda.

Products

Aircraft

Rolling stock

Locomotives

Multiple units

See also

References

  1. "old STEAM LOCOMOTIVES in South Africa". steam-locomotives-south-africa.blogspot.it. July 2009. Retrieved 2013-04-12.

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