Aerfer

Aerfer
PredecessorIMAM
Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali
Founded1955 (1955)
Defunct1969 (1969)
SuccessorAeritalia
Headquarters
Italy
Area served
Worldwide

Aerfer was an Italian manufacturing company created in 1955 by the merger of IMAM and Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali. The name is a contraction of Costruzioni Aeronautiche e Ferroviarie (Aeronautical and Railway Constructions).

In the 1950s and 1960s, Aerfer manufactured bodies for trolleybuses for several cities, particularly in Italy (including the Naples trolleybus system), but also some for foreign trolleybus systems, such as those of Mexico City and Istanbul, Turkey.

In 1969, the company merged with Salmoiraghi and the aviation division of Fiat to create Aeritalia.

The firm is remembered mostly in connection with the development of Italy's first supersonic jet, the Aerfer Sagittario 2.

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