Alfa Romeo Autobus information

[gtv2000]

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Originally Posted by MALDI Here is a small contribution to the effort: an ad from 1940 for a natural gas powered Alfa Romeo bus. Looks like the model posted by Dinky Boy.

[Dinky Boy]

Having written an article about Alfa Romeo advertising in 'Het Klaverblaadje' I realized that one of the ads was from 'Tubocar'. After 0,29 secs Google found some interesting links.

This site, with some difficult navigating, but with plenty details and pictures.



And this forum thread Mostly trucks, you have to register to see loads of pics.

Maybe it's no new information, but you can find more with this Google-search

[Bartek]

This is great article, but you'll not understand it
http://cuoresportivo.pl/_m/index2.php/ciezarowki

[Fritzi]

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Originally Posted by Alfa_Japan Fritzi, good to hear GTV2000 and I are not alone. I would be happy to swap items for 900A Autobus user manual and ambulance brochures. Seeing your reply I think I have quite some stuff which might interest you. Swapping scans is better than paying a fortune every time again. Let me know if you're interested. By the way if you're dream is to restore a 430 truck I've found something very close. A 900 tanker truck waiting in Italy for salvation. Unfortunately I don't know how to add a picture to this message. There was no selling address, but the pictures look great.

[Alfa_Japan]

For those of you who have access to German magazines I can recommend to find the "Last & Kraft" magazine from April 2006. A really explicit article about buses in the Varese area in Italy. Many pictures of Alfa buses I haven't seen before. Last & Kraft magazine is a magazine for old truck and bus enthusiasts in Germany.

[gtv2000]

Alex Weber, author of the articles in Last und Kraft, is really a leading expert in Italian busses and trucks. He wrote articles on Alfa trucks in previous issues of the same magazine.

The polish article also addresses a little known, but interesting point of the history: the trolleybusses seized by the Germans in 1943-44, and used in Germany (among others Berlin, Mainz, Esslingen, Kiel,...), Austria (a.o. Linz) and Poland (Gdansk). Most didn't come back to Italy, but a few did. Some public transport companies did pay them to the German "import" service, but since this later didn't pay the Italians, the Esslingen trolleys were given back to their former owner. The reason for seizure was the lack of transport for the workers in strategical locations, like naval works or main armament ones.

Tubocar was the commercial name for an Italian patent for integral bodies (needing no separate chassis frame), but yet it was not the first one.

[charley]

I know that it may be of only minor interest but have you checked the FNM/ ALFA brasil who produced many trucks and autobus's based on ALFA 800 (FNM 800BR).
Some of the autobus produced by FNM used the truck tractor with articulated passenger cabin.
see..www.alfafnm.hpg.com.br also on alfa brasil website.
charley

[dretceterini]

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Originally Posted by charley I know that it may be of only minor interest but have you checked the FNM/ ALFA brasil who produced many trucks and autobus's based on ALFA 800 (FNM 800BR). Some of the autobus produced by FNM used the truck tractor with articulated passenger cabin. see..www.alfafnm.hpg.com.br also on alfa brasil website. charley