!!!Österreichische Automobil Fabriks-AG, ÖAF

Oesterreichische Automobil Fabriks-AG, OeAF, successor to the Fiat 
assembling plant (Austro-Fiat) founded at Floridsdorf in 1907, which 
originally assembled Fiat vehicles for the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 
but started to manufacture its own passenger cars, lorries, buses, 
motorboat engines and powered ploughs well before the First World War. 
A licence agreement with Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nuernberg AG (MAN) 
for the construction of diesel engines was concluded in 1936; at the 
same time MAN acquired a majority interest in OeAF. In World War II 
production focused mainly on lorries with MAN engines; after the end 
of the war the heavily damaged manufacturing plant, which was situated 
in the Soviet occupation zone, was integrated into the   (see) USIA 
group, which was not only detrimental to further development but also 
meant that most of the company's producion was destined for the Soviet 
Union. In 1955 OeAF was placed under public administration and not 
reprivatised until 1970, when it was merged with Austro-MAN, followed 
by a further merger with   (see) Graef &Stift in 1971, creating   
(see) Oesterreichische Automobilfabrik OeAF-Graef & Stift AG.


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