Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri
Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri , or TIBB for short , was an Italian manufacturer of railway and tram vehicles, electrical equipment for trolleybuses, security systems and signals until 1988. Today the company is called Bombardier Transportation Italy .
history
Tecnomasio Italiano was founded in Milan in 1871 to manufacture electric motors and generators. In 1903 the company was taken over by the Swiss company Brown, Boveri & Cie. bought and renamed Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri .
In 1905 the three-phase locomotive E.550 was built in Vado Ligure in the halls of the Società Italiana Westinghouse (as the successor to the Officine di Vado Ligure) , which demonstrated its efficiency on the Giovi mountain railway near Genoa. In 1919 the factory in Vado Ligure was bought by TIBB and the production of electric locomotives continued. B. with the three-phase locomotives E.330 .
In 1926, TIBB took a stake in the SAR company, which carried out the three-phase electrification of the burner line. During these years direct current traction developed and TIBB produced four prototype locomotives of the type E.625 , later series locomotives E.626 and E.424 . In the post-war period E.636 , from 1957 E.646 and E.645 were produced. The three-phase equipment was manufactured for the ALe 840 and the railcars were prepared for dual-current operation. Later the production of E.633 , E.652 and metro vehicles for Rome and Milan began.
In 1988, when Asea and Brown Boveri merged to form ABB , TIBB first became ABB Tecnomasio , in 1996, when ABB cooperated with Daimler-Benz in Adtranz , Transportation-Adtranz Italy , and in 1999 Daimler-Chrysler Rail Systems (Italia) SpA and in 2001, after being sold to Bombardier Transportation , Bombardier Transportation Italy .
Web links
- Information on Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri ( Italian )