Tata Hispano Motors Carrocera, S.A. (formerly Hispano Carrocera, S.A.), based in

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, was one of the largest manufacturers of

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and

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cabins in

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. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of the

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-based

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. Tata Motors acquired control of the company in 2005, after purchasing a 21% stake in the company. In 2009, it acquired the remaining 79% from Investalia SA. Apart from their main plant in Zaragoza, Hispano had a second one in

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; combined, they had a production capacity of 2,000 units in a year. Tata intends to keep the Moroccan plant open. Hispano bodied buses are built by TATA Motors in India at ACGL plant in

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. The bus is called

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History

The company was founded in 1947 by D. Vincenzo Angelino Gervasio (an engineer of

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origin) and his wife Felisa Pueyo as Talleres Nápoles in Zaragoza, Spain. It was originally devoted to repairs, welding and metalwork on post-war trucks, but the company also developed its own design for a "unique truck cabin", which could be mounted on any chassis, and which was very successful. This success allowed the company to expand and move to a 3,000 m2 workshop, where it built its first bus in 1958 and its first double-decker bus in 1960. In 1962, the company moved again to newly built installations on the N-II road, becoming Factorías Nápoles, S.A., and begins to sell vehicles under its own brand, "Nazar" (an conflation of "Naples" and "Zaragoza"), in Spain and abroad. But in 1964, financial problems force the founder, Vicenzo Angelino, to leave the company, which changed its name again to Fabricaciones Industriales S.A.. In 1966, the company became part of Barreiros Diesel, S.A., which was in turn purchased by

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in 1969, forming Chrysler España, S.A.. The bus and bodywork part of Chrysler España was then sold to Van Hool España, S.A. in 1971, which was later renamed to Hispano Carrocera, S.A.L. in 1983. The company manufactured

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buses under license until developing the Hispano Carrocera brand in the late 1980s. In 2005, sensing an opportunity in the fully built

segment,

from

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acquired a 21% stake in

Hispano Carrocera Tata Hispano Motors Carrocera, S.A. (formerly Hispano Carrocera, S.A.), based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, was one of the largest manufacturers of bus and coach cabins in Europe. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of the India-based Tata Motors. Tat ...

SA,. In 2009, the Tata acquired the remaining 79% of in Hispano Carrocera for an undisclosed sum, making it a fully owned subsidiary, subsequently renamed Tata Hispano. In September 2013, Tata announced the closure of the Zaragoza factory. It said sales had fallen and that future prospects for its marketplace were poor.

Products

* City Buses ** Habit ** Area ** Orbit (built in Casablanca only) * Intercity touring Buses ** DIVO Intercity ** DIVO Luxury ** Mosaic ** Tata Hispano Globus (built in India only) ** Xerus ** Intea Intercity * SUBURBAN & REGIONAL TRANSPORT ** Intea Suburban Image:Bilbobus Mercedes (Hispano Habit).jpg, Bilbobus Mercedes (Hispano Habit) Image:Hispano with Iveco EuroRider 35 chassis.jpg, Hispano with

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EuroRider 35 chassis Image:SMRT-MBO405-B3.JPG,

Mercedes-Benz O405 The Mercedes-Benz O405 was a single-decker bus manufactured by Mercedes-Benz from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s as either an integral bus or a bus chassis and was the last VöV SL-II standard bus in production. It was the replacement for th ...

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References

External links

www.tatahispano.com
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