Early Ebro logo

Modern Ebro logo

c.1960 Ebro C550 truck

Ebro P-Series trucks in a 1976 Motor Iberica ad

c.1980 Ebro model 50/5D minicoach

Ebro was a Spanish brand of light and medium trucks and buses, as well as all-wheel-drive utility vehicles and agricultural tractors, based mainly in Barcelona, Madrid, and Ávila. The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer truck prepares to offload Å koda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle for transporting goods. ... An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... The Jeep Wrangler is a 4WD vehicle with a transfer case to select RWD or 4WD. The Lamborghini Murciélago is a 4WD/AWD that powers the front via a VCU if the rear slips. ... A modern farm tractor. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (Catalan) Ciudad Condal (Spanish) Postal code 08001-08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... Location Coordinates : 40° 23’N , 3°43′0″W Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Villa de Madrid (Spanish) Spanish name Villa de Madrid Founded 9th century Postal code 28001-28080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 91 (Madrid) Website http://www. ... Complete name of this city: Ávila de los Caballeros Ávila is a town in the south of Old Castile, the capital of the province of the same name, now part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. ...

Ebro parent company, Motor Iberica, was set up in 1954 to build British-designed Ford trucks under license, Ebro range being based on Ford's Thames Trader. During the late-1960s and early-1970s the company took over four Spanish light vehicle makers: Fadisa, (Romeo vans), Aisa (Avia trucks), Siata (Seat car derived minivans), and Viasa (various Jeep 4x4s and Forward Control utility vehicles), in addition to the Spanish branch of Perkins engines. Ford may mean a number of things: A ford is a river crossing. ... Thames badge 1964 Thames Trader recovery vehicle. ... Alfa Romeo is an Italian automobile manufacturing company, founded as Darracq Italiana by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan in partnership with the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq. ... An old SEAT 600 SEAT is a Volkswagen subsidiary and one of the leading car makers in Spain. ... Jeep is an automobile marque (and registered trademark) of DaimlerChrysler. ... The Jeep Forward Control was a truck produced by Willys and then Kaiser Jeep from 1956 to 1965. ... Engines P3: Three cylinder diesel engine, produced from 1953-11 to 1967-03. ...

This resulted in a real frenzy of badge engineering, as one could see Avia-badged Jeeps, Ebro-badged Alfa-Romeos, and so on. Meanwhile, Ebro introduced tilt-cab Ford 'D'-Series derived models for loads of between l'/2 and 7 tons and gradually added new models until the range covered 2- and 3-axle rigids and articulated types from 3 to 27 tons capacity. Badge engineering is a term that describes the rebadging of one model of car as another. ...

Ebro also entered the agricultural tractor market through a license agreement with Massey-Ferguson, which eventually led to the later becoming Motor Iberica controlling shareholder. A Massey Ferguson MF 135. ...

In the 1980, Ebro launched the 'E'-Series trucks range, comprising some six models from 3500 to 11200 kg gross, and the 'P'-Series for gross weights of 13,000 to 27,000 kg.

In 1979 Nissan Motors (not Nissan Diesel, the truck arm) had taken a stake in Motor Iberica, and took complete control in 1987. From then on the company was named Nissan Motor Iberica. During a short period, Japanese Kubota tractors were assembled and marketed in Spain as Ebro-Kubota. // Nissan Motor Co. ... Nissan Diesel or UD (The companys trademark) is a Japanese company whose principal business is the manufacture and sales of diesel engines, light, medium and heavy duty diesel trucks, buses, bus chassis and special-purpose vehicles. ... Toshi Kubota - Japanese singer Kubota Corporation Kubota (Sake) is a Japanese sake. ...

Following the Nissan takeover, a "badge slide" from Ebro to Nissan took place. This was not without surprising occurrences, such as Ebro-badged Nissan Patrols that were sold in some European countries. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Currently, Spanish Nissan trucks are produced in the Avila plant.

External links

• Spanish Nissan trucks webpage
• Spanish gallery of Ebro trucks