Genius in the Service of Agriculture

From the Cassani dream, a story of people and machines

SAME Museum - Cassani tractor in a field (1927/1927)Museimpresa

The Cassani Tractor 40 HP

In 1927, brothers Francesco and Eugenio Cassani make one of the first agricultural tractors in the world with a diesel engine which wins the national “Trattrice agricola italiana” competition in the early 1930s.

SAME Museum - SAME's first headquarters in Treviglio (1955/1955)Museimpresa

The birth of SAME

After years of experience designing advanced diesel engines and injection pumps, in 1942 the Cassani brothers found SAME (Società Accomandita Motori Endotermici) in Treviglio, in the Province of Bergamo.

SAME Museum - SAME DA 25 tractor in a field (1957/1957)Museimpresa

4-wheel drive

The SAME DA 25 arrives in 1952, the first tractor with 4-wheel drive produced on an industrial scale. ‘DA’ (Diesel Air) indicates the characteristic cooling type for the first SAME engines, ‘25’ the horsepower.

SAME Museum - SAME Sametto tractor, technical drawing (1959/1959)Museimpresa

Specialised: vineyard and orchard tractors

SAME has dedicated itself to designing tractors for specialist crops from the beginning. These machines had limited dimensions so as to move easily between the rows without damaging plants.

SAME Museum - SAME 240 tractor (1959/1959)Museimpresa

SAC: Automatic Control Station

The first SAME original SAC is produced in 1959, a system governing the implements connected to the tractor, controlling and regulating operation through levers on the wheel.
Machines equipped with SAC will be called “intelligent tractors”.

SAME Museum - Rail transport of SAME Ariete tractors (1964/1964)Museimpresa

The evolution of the SAME factory in Treviglio

In the 1960s, the SAME factory evolves, is expanded and modernised. The nearby railway yard allows tractors to be shipped worldwide.

SAME Museum - SAMECAR agricultural machine, advertising (1961/1961)Museimpresa

Samecars

The 1960s is also the decade of the Samecar, the multifunction tractor that works the land and bears the produce.

SAME Museum - SAME Leone 70 tractor in Tanzania (1968/1968)Museimpresa

Internationalisation

In the 1960s, the Centauro, Leone and Minitauro tractors make a decisive contribution to spreading agricultural mechanisation and the SAME name worldwide.

SAME Museum - "Mercurio d'oro" (1967/1967)Museimpresa

Honours

In 1967 SAME is honoured with the National “Oscar for Commerce” Mercurio d’Oro Award, for companies deemed deserving because of their contribution to the development of national production.

SAME Museum - SAME Buffalo tractor, technical publication (1976/1976)Museimpresa

High-power tractors

In the 1970s, SAME enters the high-power tractor segment.

SAME Museum - SAME House Organ "4RM" (1981/1981)Museimpresa

A tiger with four eyes

The new SAME logo arrives in the 1980s, a rich, complex symbol summing up 4-wheel drive (4-eyed tiger) but also strength, the company’s nobility, the power of the machines and above all the capacity for innovation.

SAME Museum - "Further with SAME", commercial video (1982/1982)Museimpresa

Onwards with SAME

TV advert, 1982.

SAME Museum - SAME Explorer 75 tractor at work in Trentino Alto Adige (1985/1985)Museimpresa

Explorer and Laser: successful families

The new Explorer and Laser SAME tractor families arrived in 1983, machines that summed up all the technical experience developed by the Treviglio-based company in the medium-high-power sector.

SAME Museum - SAME Explorer 65 C crawler tractor at work (1984/1984)Museimpresa

Crawlers

Crawlers are typically Italian tractors. Their use is explained by the country’s complex and diverse landscape. To this day, they are widely used for work on hills, in both vineyards and open fields.

SAME Museum - 90th anniversary of the Cassani tractor, poster (2017/2017)Museimpresa

The company now

Today, SAME is an SDF brand.
SDF is one of the largest tractor, harvester and diesel engine manufacturers in the world. It distributes its products under the SAME, DEUTZ-FAHR, Lamborghini Trattori, Hürlimann, Grégoire and Vitibot brands.

SAME Museum - The tractor assembly line at SAME's Treviglio plant (2018/2018)Museimpresa

The Treviglio factory now

The company’s main site is still rooted in Treviglio today. Production, sales, after-sales and spare parts distribution are ensured by many European and Asian production plants and commercial branches plus importers and dealers worldwide.

SAME Museum and SDF Historical Archive in Treviglio (2023/2023)Museimpresa

SDF Historical Archive

The SDF Historical Archive is inaugurated in 2004, with the task of gathering, preserving and showcasing the historical documentation on SDF and its brands. It contains over 260,000 technical drawings and 47,000 catalogued and digitised documents.

SAME Museum - Cassani tractor (1927/1927)Museimpresa

SAME Museum

The SAME Museum, opened in 2008, together with the Historical Archives bears witness to the technological, cultural and human journey the Treviglio-based company has taken over the years, in more than 30 displays, of tractors, engines and mechanical components.

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