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Landini was founded by Giovanni Landini and had just started making tractors in 1925 when Giovanni Landini died preventing the completion of the first prototype Landini trator. Giovanni Landini's sons took over the business and saw the completion of the tractor project.
In 1925 the sons built the first authentic Italian tractor, a 30 hp machine. It was a success and was the forerunner of the viable range of Landini 40 and 50 hp models which appeared in the mid-1930s and were to become renowmed under the names of Velite, Buffalo and Super. The first production tractors were powered by a 40 hp semi-diesel engine which was a two stroke single-cylinder unit. The company continued to produce semi-diesel engined tractors until 1957. When World War 2 started, the production stopped. In 1959 the first Landini crawler tractor the C35 was manufactured. In 1973 Landini lanched the 500 Series of 2 and 4 wheeled tractors.
1980 saw the company diversifying its products as well as specializing. Also in 1980 Landini started work on a vineyard tractor. In 1986 the new vineyard tractor was lanched. 1988, the company lanched a redesigned series of tractors, the 60, 70, 80 Series.
1994 Landini became a part of ARGO Spa. In 1995 Landini bought out Valpadana.