Alfa Romeo Mille
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The Alfa Romeo Mille is an eight-ton forward control lorry produced by Alfa Romeo between 1958 and 1964. It was the last Alfa Romeo heavy commercial vehicle. The model was fitted with a 11,050 cc (674 cu in) inline-six diesel engine, which produced between 163–174 hp (122–130 kW), and a gearbox with eight forward speeds. For the time, Alfa Romeo Mille was one of the most innovative trucks. Alfa Romeo built the Mille in a rear-wheel drive 4x2 configuration.
The Mille could carry eight metric tons of cargo in the bed and a tow up to 18 tons; a fifth wheel tractor unit version was also made, rated for a 26.2 ton towing capacity. Independent firms offered conversion to three or four axles by adding one or two dead axles, steerable or fixed; maximum bed payload went up respectively to over 10 or 13 tons. Italian Bartoletti made a car transporter version of the Mille in 1963, which could carry up to eight cars on two levels of the car and trailer. There was also special Mille "Motori Aviazione" made for transportation of aircraft engines made by Alfa Romeo. In 1956, production license of the Mille was acquired by the Brazilian company Fábrica Nacional de Motores. FNM continued production these trucks under its own brand until 1980 with the name FNM 180 series.
From the Wikipedia article Alfa Romeo Mille (truck), CC BY-SA.
Among the 194 Alfa Romeo entries in the MotorJury library, the Alfa Romeo Mille holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1958. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Alfa Romeo Mille properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1950s were the optimistic post-war boom, when chrome, tailfins and new unibody construction met the first purpose-built motorways and sports-car racing shaped reputations. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Mini Mini, the Nissan Nissan Patrol, the Fiat Fiat 500 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Alfa Romeo Mille reads like this: the record lists its engine as 11 L I6 (diesel); kerb weight is recorded at predecessor = Alfa Romeo 950; drive goes through 8-speed manual; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Alfa Romeo's own catalogue the Alfa Romeo Mille sits alongside the A.L.F.A 12 HP, the A.L.F.A 15 HP, the A.L.F.A 15-20 HP, the A.L.F.A 24 HP. The record names the Alfa Romeo 950 as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to type = Heavy commercial vehicle. Assembly is recorded at designer =.
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