Tecnomasio

TIBB under the name Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri, abbreviated, was until 1988 an Italian company, the railway and tram vehicles designed and built, electrical equipment for trolleybuses ( trolleybuses ) supplied and security systems including signals produced. The company operates under the name Bombardier Transportation Italy today.

Tecnomasio Italiano was founded in Milan in 1871 with the purpose of producing electric motors and generators. In 1903 the firm of the Swiss Brown, Boveri & Cie was. Bought ( BBC ) and renamed Tecnomasio Italiano Brown Boveri.

1905 was built (as successor to the Officine di Vado Ligure ) the Drehstromlok E.550 in Vado Ligure in the halls of the Società Italiana Westinghouse, which put her performance on Giovi mountain railway in Genoa proof. 1919, the factory in Vado Ligure by TIBB was bought out and continued the manufacture of electric locomotives mainly for the Ferrovie dello Stato, eg with the 16 Drehstromloks E.330.

1926 TIBB involved in the Society SAR, which carried out the Drehstromelektrifikation the Brenner route. In these years, the DC traction and TIBB developed presented for four prototype locomotives of the type E.625, later adding E.626 and E.424 production locomotives. In the postwar period were E.636, E.646 and E.645 produced from 1957. For the ALe 840, the three-phase equipment was manufactured and prepared the railcars for the two-stream operation. Later, the production of E.633, E.652 and Metro vehicles for Rome and Milan began.

1988, with the merger of ASEA and BBC from the TIBB first ABB Tecnomasio, then, in 1996, in the cooperation of ABB Daimler Benz in Adtranz, the name changed to the Transportation Adtranz Italy, in 1999 in Daimler Chrysler Rail system (Italia ) SpA, and finally in 2001, after the sale to Bombardier, Bombardier Transportation in Italy.