Il Historical Museum of the Military Motorization of the Army Roma was previously placed in extremely limited exhibition spaces, in 1991 it was transferred to its current location, after the recovery of the pre-existing infrastructures, in an area of approximately 50 thousand mXNUMX, very articulated, with wide avenues, extensive green areas and volumes with a "card" structure, typical of the early years of the century, once used for teaching activities at the Military Motorization School.
Overall there are more than three hundred units including vintage civil and military cars and trucks, sixty tracked, armored and armored vehicles, and sixty vintage motorcycles.
Among the six exhibition pavilions, the one entitled to the "Arturo Mercanti Gold Medal" in which the Management is located, a library-archive with data and technical sheets referring to many motor vehicles entrusted to the Army, from the origins to the our days, as well as photographic and documentary material, a large wall map showing the dynamic maneuver implemented by General Cadorna in Trentino, in the year 1916, characterized by the first massive use of automotive transport.
In addition to some animal-drawn carts from 1914 and 1916, the Museum includes pieces of great value and historical importance, such as the Fiat 18 BL, Fiat 15 Ter and Spa 38 trucks, as well as two Piper L 18 and L 21 B light aircraft, a Fiat 501 Torpedo, an L3 fast tank, an M 15-42 tank and a P 40 tank, a very rare Lancia Astura Lince armored car from 1942, a Spa Dovunque 35 truck, a Fiat 513 model 4 from 1910, used by Vittorio Emanuele III for travel on the front of the 1st World War, and the very famous ambulance from the film "A Farewell to Arms", Fiat type 2 from 1910.
Rome: see also
The town of Cecchignola is located on the southern outskirts of Rome, a short distance from the EUR district where the Museum of Roman Civilization, the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro and the church of Saints Peter and Paul can be visited.
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