Cugini Randi

Cugini Randi
Industry Agriculture, Tractors, Tillers, motocultivators
Founded 1947 (1947) (approximately)
Founder Umberto, Dardano and Ettore Randi
Defunct the mid-80s
Headquarters Bagnacavallo - Ravenna province, Italy
Products Tractors, motocultivators, tillers, steering boxes

History

Cugini Randi was a small Italian company active in the agricultural machinery production sector, formed at the end of the Second World War, presumably in 1947, whose headquarters was located in Bagnacavallo in the province of Ravenna (Italy). The factory was founded by brothers Umberto and Dardano Randi, along with his cousin Ettore Randi. They started the business repairing machines, then building, with recycled materials, circular saws sold to some local carpenters and used by them until the end of the 90s (nearly 40 years of service). Subsequently, the factory began to transform American and English military tracked motor vehicles, left by the Allies after the end of the war, in tracked agriculture tractors. They adapted petrol 8 cylinder engines in order to operate with agricultural oil. Umberto, an expert engineer trained in Autocentro Militare in Bologna, invented, for this purpose, an oil agriculture vaporizer, using war materials remnants (shells of large caliber bullets and a series of copper tubes). In light of the success of the early fifties, the company began to produce real wheeled tractors of medium size (models R14 - R50), and made almost all the pieces needed for their construction. At the same time, Cugini Randi began to produce their first motocultivator as well as some machines such as the "Grillo" and the tiller R5. At the end of the 50s, Umberto died. Dardano and Ettore continued to work in the agriculture sector, diversifying the production. They started building steering boxes for different types of vehicles (construction machinery, etc.), they abandoned the production of medium-sized tractors and focused the production in tiller, motocultivators and small 4-wheel drive tractors.

During the maximum production years (70s and 80s), the Cugini Randi had a decent network of representatives in Italy and a presence in Portugal, Greece and Belgium. Due to a very strong competition (with much greater production capacity), a professional machines of the type produced drop in demand, and a lack of a generational change, around the mid-80s, Cugini Randi company gradually ceased the activities, leaving the management of spare parts to its employees.

The transformations (late 40s)

Products (50s)

Tractors

Tillers and motocultivators

The "Grillo"

The Grillo was built around the year 1953. It was a mower with transport capabilities, along with spraying capacity. He was born in a period in which there was an absolute lack of machines. It was fully functional, capable of accomplishment all of these tasks simultaneously

Products (60s)

Small tractors

Motocultivators

Tillers

Products (70s and 80s)

Small tractors

Motocultivators

Tillers

Steering boxes

References

  1. 1 2 3 "E.N.P.I. (Ente Nazionale Prevenzione Infortuni".

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