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In mid 30s Piaggio was the first in Italy to start building stainless steel railcars, electric locomotives, and normal carriages, using an exclusive soldering procedure studied by the Budd company of Philadelphia. The decision to use stainless steel permitted to eliminate most of the maintenance operations of the external walls, in particular the ones that had to be periodically re-painted. In 1937 the Ferrovie Calabro-Lucane (Railways of Calabria and Lucania) were supplied with ten standard-produced stainless steel railcars with bogies and electrical drive, like the model present at the Museum.