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Fabryka Samochodów Ciezarowych
FSC is a large automotive factory established in Poland while it was part of the Soviet bloc. It was founded in 1950 and the first vehicle left its assembly line on November 7, 1951...
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The production of the Lublin van, which started in 1993, was intended to replace the aging Żuk
Zuk
The Żuk was a van and light truck produced in Lublin, Poland, between 1958 and 1998 by FSC. It was based on FSO Warszawa which in turn was a copy of a Soviet passenger car GAZ-M20 Pobeda. The chassis, suspension and engine from FSO Warszawa formed the basis of the Żuk and the Nysa light vans...
. It did so in 1998.
The van, known as Lublin 33 was produced until 1995, when Daewoo Motor
GM Daewoo
GM Korea Company is South Korea's second largest automobile manufacturer and is a division of the General Motors Company. GM Korea's roots go back to the former Daewoo which was split from its parent company, Daewoo Group, in 2001...
took control of FSC and renamed it as Lublin II. In 1999 the Lublin III was put into production. After the Daewoo Group
Daewoo
Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...
bankruptcy, the future of Lublin looked bleak.
In 2001 the brand Lublin was sold to a British company, Truck Alliance. At present the brand is owned by Intrall Polska, a Russo-British company, and the van is sold under the name Intrall.
Some of the Lublin trucks were licensed copies of GAZ
GAZ
GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod , translated as Gorky Automobile Plant , started in 1932 as NAZ, a cooperation between Ford and the Soviet Union. It is one of the largest companies in the Russian automotive industry....
vehicles (GAZ-51
GAZ-51
The GAZ-51 is the best known, most popular, and longest produced Soviet truck. Its first prototypes were produced before the end of World War II, and mass production started in 1946....
).