Società Italiana Ernesto Breda

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Società Italiana Ernesto 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."
Industry	Engineering
Founded	1886; 135 years ago (1886)
Successor	AnsaldoBreda BredaMenarinibus
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Products	Transport aircraft Bombers Experimental planes Air force trainers Seaplanes Ships Locomotives
Subsidiaries	Breda Meccanica Bresciana IMAM
Website	Breda

Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, more usually referred to simply as Breda, is an Italian mechanical manufacturing company founded by Ernesto Breda in Milan in 1886.

History[]

The firm was founded by Ernesto Breda in Milan in 1886. It originally manufactured locomotives and other railway machinery, but later branched out into armaments and aircraft. Occasionally, not continuously, the company also built trolleybuses. In 1935, it acquired the railway division of Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali and, soon afterwards, the aircraft division of the same company.

In 1962, Breda was nationalised as part of EFIM, but was liquidated in the 1990s. The train 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 .

Products[]

Warrant of the Società Italiana Ernesto Breda per Costruzioni Meccaniche, issued 1. February 1929

Aircraft Products[]

• A.2
• A.4
• A.7
• A.8
• A.9
• A.10
• A.14
• Ba.15
• Ba.19
• CC.20
• Ba.25
• Ba.26
• Ba.27
• Ba.28
• Ba.32
• Ba.33
• Ba.39
• Ba.42
• Ba.44
• Ba.46
• Ba.64
• Ba.65
• Ba.75
• Ba.79S
• Ba.82
• Ba.88
• Ba.201
• BP.471
• BZ.308
• BZ.309
• Tebaldi-Zari

Rolling stock products[]

Ernesto Breda, c. 1920

Locomotives[]

• South African Class 15CA 4-8-2^[1]
• SEK class Μα
• E.330
• D.341
• D.345
• D.443
• E.424
• E.428
• E.636
• HŽ series 1061

DMU and EMU[]

• ETR 200
• ETR 240
• ETR 300
• FNM Class E.750

Metro[]

• Washington Metro 2000-Series, 3000-Series, 4000-series
• Breda A650
• CQ312

Tram and light rail[]

• ATM Class 1500
• ATM Class 4600 and 4700

Trolleybuses[]

The production of trolleybuses was a small part of Breda's output, carried out through its subsidiary Breda Costruzioni Ferroviarie (it), and was not under way continuously. Between 1936 and 1940, the company built a total of 28 trolleybuses, most for the Rome system but including six for Genoa.^[2] At various times between 1938 and 1956, more trolleybuses were built, but totalling only 16. Production resumed in 1988. Almost all of Breda's customers for trolleybuses were Italian trolleybus systems, but a notable exception was an order of 236 dual-mode buses that Breda built for the Seattle system between 1988 and 1991.^[2]

See also[]

• Leonardo
• AnsaldoBreda
• IMAM

References[]

Further reading[]

• Luigi Giugni, Le imprese a partecipazione statale, Naples, Jovene, 1972
• Pasquale Saraceno, Il sistema delle imprese a partecipazione statale nell'esperienza italiana, Milano, Giuffrè, 1975
• Bruno Amoroso - Ole Jess Olsen, Lo stato imprenditore, Bari, Laterza, 1978
• Nico Perrone, Il dissesto programmato. Le partecipazioni statali nel sistema di consenso democristiano, Bari, Dedalo, 1991
• Nico Perrone, Italian and American Patterns in a Conflictive Development, Roskilde, Roskilde Universitetscenter, 1992
• La Breda produce, mostra fotografica, dal sito dell’Istituto per la Storia dell’Età Contemporanea [1]
• La linea del fuoco[2]
• Gunston, Bill (1993). World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. p. 56.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Breda (Milan).

• Fondazione Isec - Breda (in Italian)
• Mostra fotografica online Fondazione Isec - La Breda produce (in Italian)
• Treccani.it BREDA, Ernesto (in Italian)