Bubba Trattori

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Bubba Trattori is an Italian manufacturer of tractors and other agricultural equipment. The sole-trader company Pietro Bubba, former Domenico, began threshing for third parties towards the end of the nineteenth century in Santimento, a small village about twenty kilometres from Piacenza, towards Voghera. This was followed by repairing and building small equipment until, in 1896, he built the first Bubba agricultural machine: a shelling machine for small seeds. With the help of his three sons, Federico, Salvatore and Artemio, he started building the first threshers in 1896. Over the years the company developed their threshers and presses so that by the twenties, it competed with the other manufacturers of the time such as Breda, Orsi and Casali. The first official company structure came in 1919: "Pietro Bubba & Co. limited partnership". The construction of tractors began gradually by recuperating the vehicles used during the state ploughing drives from 1917 to 1919, which were sold to private concerns at concessional prices. These vehicles, that hadn't been treated with much care by military men which "were not suitable for fighting", revealed a weakness in their Otto engines. They were not very reliable due to their imprecise management. Bubba seized this opportunity to offer farmers simple engines, which were easy to use and manage.