industry automotive founded 1907 headquarters floridsdorf austria products vehicles website official website af is an initialism for sterreichische automobil fabrik previously known as sterreichische austro fiat an austrian austro hungarian car and truck manufacturer . contents 1 austro fiat 2 man acquisition 3 vehicles 4 references 5 external links austro fiat edit af was created by fiat in 1907 and is now part of the german man group . the manufacture of automobiles began in the new plant built for the occasion in vienna in 1908 while the number was only 50 employees . a truck of 4 tonnes similar to the italian fiat model was manufactured from 1911 . it was originally austro fiat which during the first world war began to develop their own products . in 1925 the austro fiat brand expired and the company became osterreichische automobil fabrik ag under the abbreviation af with preservation of the trademark filed earlier . also in 1925 a separate company took over sales of italian fiat cars and austro fiat became affiliated with austro daimler and puch . the last private car type 1001a was different from the earlier type 1001 having 34 bhp 25 kw engines and conventional rear axles . the latest model fiat s truck was ts 1924 equipped with a 45 hp 34 kw fiat engine . the company began production of other models in austria which has enabled the company to begin developing its own models . the most popular submitted in 1925 was the afn light truck afn with 1.75 tons of payload . this truck used a 42 hp 4 cylinder fiat engine 2850 cc it also used gimbals and real tires not solid tires which allowed for a speed of 65 km h. in 1928 the af2 appeared and the following year a bus called the austro fiat 1001 . it is from this time that the company discontinued the manufacture of passenger cars to concentrate on commercial vehicles trucks vans and buses . this allowed the afl afy to be manufactured from 1930 to 1937 . man acquisition edit austrian army af slkw truck in 1938 when austria was annexed by the third reich german man obtained the majority of shares owned by fiat in af reducing the italian firm s share to 15 % . af had begun equipping some of its trucks with diesel engines from man in 1934 . after the second world war the floridsdorf factory was in the russian zone and the plants were used for russian reparations . in 1955 af was released from these payments and the factory began producing trucks again . they went to austria to build military trucks but the austrian army eventually selected rival steyr for its famous pinzgauer . the tornado was af s challenger best selling truck in austria . in 1970 the company was privatized again ; man then let it merge with gr f & stift out of which af gr f & stift arose which in 1971 was fully taken over by man . vehicles edit af tornado 19 230 af tornado 16 192 with trilex felgen af tornado 19 186 af tornado 19 192 af tornado 9256 af husar man with af grille 1977 af light wheeled tank references edit hans seper von austro fiat zu af gr f und stift ag bruner reitgruber hundert jahre fahrzeugbau in wien . wien 2001 verein zur f rderung historischer kraftfahrzeuge der sterrr . automobilfabriken af gr f & stift ag karl heinz rauscher von fiat wien zu man nutzfahrzeuge sterreich . wien 2008 austro fiat in g.n. georgano ed . the complete encyclopedia of motorcars 1885 1968 new york e.p. dutton and co. 1974 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to af vehicles . official website man web site german verein zur f rderung der historischen fahrzeuge der sterreichischen automobilfabriken in german gro auftrag der britischen armee in german retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title af & oldid 740143325 categories motor vehicle manufacturers of austriadefunct companies of austriadefunct bus manufacturerstruck manufacturersfiat navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisitalianomagyarnederlandspolskisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 09 12 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view