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A branch of the Fiat-Works was founded in Wien-Floridsdorf in 1907. Although the Austrian Fiat Werke AG never used the name Austro-Fiat officially, it became famous under this name. At the beginning, Fiat vehicles were assembled for the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy. Before the beginning of World War I, production of own developed passenger cars, lorries and buses was started. In 1921, the Österreichische Creditanstalt gained the majority of stock. As a result the name of the company was changed to Österreichische Automobil-Fabriks-AG vormals Austro-Fiat, in short ÖAF. In 1933, Fiat regained the majority of stock. A licence agreement for the production of diesel engines was contracted with MAN in 1935. In the year 1939, Fiat had to sell its block of shares to MAN. The MAN ML 4500 lorry with a payload of 4.5 tons was manufactured under license starting in 1941.
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