Enasa

Enasa, the Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones S.A., was a Spanish motor vehicle manufacturer set up in 1946 as a state enterprise to give Spain a heavy truck industry of its own after the Civil War. It was incorporated after taking over the automotive assets in Spain of Hispano-Suiza and of the Italian firm Fiat, and it built trucks, buses and military armoured vehicles under the Pegaso marque and, for a short time, the Sava marque. The company belonged to the Instituto Nacional de Industria, the Spanish state industrial holding company. Over the years it signed licence and cooperation agreements with Leyland Motors, the Italian coachbuilder Viberti and International Harvester, bought the van maker Sava in 1966, and from 1983 owned the British maker Seddon Atkinson, which International Harvester handed over as compensation for an engine plant that was never built. In 1984 it joined the Dutch maker DAF in founding Cabtec to develop a new cab for its top models. After Spain joined the European Economic Community, the state had to privatise the group, and Enasa and Pegaso were sold to Iveco in 1990. The last Pegaso Troner truck left the Barajas factory near Madrid in July 1994.