Friday, April 20, 2012

Fiat bus in Turin, Italy, 1978


Turin or Torino is of course where Fiat is based.  The second part of the name plate looks like 4214 which could be a reference to the engine size in cc, although that would be a small engine for a bus.

1 comment:

esagamma718 said...

The second part in the name plate is 421 AL. "4" identified, during the '50, '60 and '70s, city buses. AL stays for "autobus lungo": it is a 12-metre, while the 11-metre version was named "421 A". This one is a Viberti-bodied 421 AL, part of the 801 vehicles batch bought by Turin Transit Authority between 1975 abd 1983. 404 had original Fiat body and 397 were Viberti. Engine was a inline-six 13litre (13174 cu. cm)