Officine Padane

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Carrozzeria e Meccanica Padana
Officine Padana
legal form Spa
founding 1943
resolution 1992
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Modena
management Antonio Vismara
Branch Body shop

Officine Padane was an Italian manufacturer of vehicle bodies from Modena .

Company history

Officine Padane was founded in 1943. The company goes back to the Modena- based company Orlandi , which from 1921 primarily manufactured superstructures for buses . Antonio Vismara took over Orlandi in the course of 1943 and relocated the company to new workshops. Initially the company operated as Carrozzeria e Meccanica Padana, from 1950 the name was changed to Officine Padane.

Like its predecessor company, Padane mainly produced bus bodies. The chassis came from Fiat , Mercedes-Benz , Lancia, OM and Volvo . Many buses were exported. In the 1960s and 1970s, Padane also took over the manual production of individual passenger cars. These included the Maserati Mistral , the Maserati Indy , the Maserati Bora and the Stutz Blackhawk , a retro-style American vehicle that was built from 1971. Padane built most of the coupés of the first series (1971) using numerous Italian add-on parts (door handles from the Maserati Indy, taillights from the Fiat 850 ) before the Carrozzeria Saturn in Cavallermaggiore took over the series production of the Stutz. Padane also produced the four-door Stutz Duplex as a single copy.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the Milanese Società Costruzioni Industriali Milano (Socimi) took over the company. Due to economic difficulties of the new parent company the Padane also got into economic difficulties and had to close in 1992 after an insolvency.

Brand name revival

In 2015, the newly founded company Industria Italiana Autobus SpA (IIA) from Bologna bought the naming rights to Padane.

gallery

  • Padane bus on a Volvo chassis

  • Stutz Blackhawk (1971)

  • Maserati Indy

  • Maserati Bora

literature

  • Hartmut Lehbrink: Gericke's 100 - 100 Years of Sports Cars , Gericke Holding GmbH, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-938118-00-8 .
  • Cancellieri, Gianni, et al. (Ed.): Maserati. Catalog raisonné 1926-2003 . Automobilia, Milan 2003. ISBN 88-7960-151-2
  • Tabucchi, Maurizio: Maserati. All Grand Prix, Sports and GT vehicles from 1926 until today . Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2004. ISBN 3-89880-211-6
  • Hans-Karl Lange: Maserati. The other Italian sports car . Vienna 1993 ( ISBN 3-552-05102-3 ).
  • James O'Donnell: The Story of Stutz. Rebirth of a classic car . Outline of the history of Stutz Motor Car of America by James O'Donnell in 1991 (available at www.madle.org)
  • Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412

Web links

Commons : Officine Padane  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 414.
  2. ↑ Images of the production of the Stutz Blackhawk (I) at Padane on the website www.madle.org (accessed on November 17, 2017).