ENASA (Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones S.A.) was a Spanish
motor vehicle manufacturing company that was incorporated in 1946 after having bought the automotive assets of the Spanish
Hispano-Suiza and the Italian
Fiat in Spain. It produced trucks, buses and military armored vehicles under the
Pegaso and, for a short while,
Sava
The Sava (; , ; sr-cyr, Сава, hu, Száva) is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. It flows through Slovenia, Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally t ...
brands. ENASA belonged to
INI, a Spanish
state-owned industrial holding company.
From 1983, ENASA also owned
Seddon Atkinson
Seddon Atkinson Vehicles Limited, a manufacturer of large goods vehicles based in Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, was formed after the acquisition in 1970 of Atkinson Vehicles Limited of Preston by Seddon Diesel Vehicles Limited of Oldha ...
, which it received from
International Harvester
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as compensation for a planned engine plant which had failed to materialize. International Harvester pulled out as the market for truck engines was contracting at the time, while there were also problems with Spain's admittance to the
European Economic Community (EEC).
In 1990 Enasa was sold to
Iveco.
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Instituto Nacional de Industria
Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI, National Institute of Industry) was a Spanish state-owned financing and industrial holding company established in Francoist Spain for the development of industry and social control. It was succeeded by the So ...
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Pegaso
Iveco
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1946
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1990
1990 disestablishments in Spain
Spanish companies established in 1946
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