The "carioca" was the agricultural vehicle used when the country was so poor and run-down that it could not afford proper tractors. The farmers were therefore forced, with the help of village mechanics, to put together what could be found on the market of the obsolete: old cars, pick-up trucks, lorries.
Everything that had an engine and four wheels was sectioned, blended and stitched together, and the resulting machines were so imaginatively assembled that it was spontaneous to call them "carioche".
Their greatest diffusion took place from 1936 to 1955 in Lombardia, Emilia Romagna and Veneto. By 1947 there were around 7,000 "carioche" built in Italy by 150 workshops that continued to work for a few more years refining their product and making it more similar to a traditional tractor. So began Lamborghini, Lesa and dozens of others with alternating fortunes.
Carioche. Le trattrici agricole figlie della guerra documents the history and evolution of this typically Italian phenomenon, presenting a hundred models and their manufacturers.
168 pages and a wealth of photographs, with over 300 b/w and colour images.
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