Old SIMIT Rusting in Peace

We return to Finland again this week for a look at another abandoned and historical piece of equipment courtesy of Mikko Suutela.

This old Italian built SIMIT excavator is resting somewhere in Western Finland, it’s a hard one to identify, but its possibly an S.60 or S.70 model.

SIMIT, or to give it its full title Societa Italiana Macchine Industrali Torino Spa, was a manufacturer established by Mario Bruneri, who along with his brother Carlo, were famous names in hydraulic excavator manufacturing in Italy.

Mario formed this business with his sons-in-law after Carlo had decided to dissolve the Officine Bruneri business, essentially a family fallout prompted Mario’s decision. The business ran from 1965 to around 1972 with machines being manufactured in Turin, a famous location for hydraulic excavator manufacturing.

Eventually SIMIT was to become a division of Fiat-Allis and these machines became the base platform for the Fiat-Allis excavators that were to follow in 1974.

Not much information is available on this old machine in Finland, except that it is still sporting the name of a Finnish contractor called Norrti

We thank Mikko for sharing these images. Below I have found a video on You Tube of an S.70 model with a mono boom arrangement being used somewhere in Italy in 2018.