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Valtra's roots can be traced back to the Finnish State Rifle Factory established in Jyväskylä in 1928 and the Finnish State Artillery Factory, which moved from Helsinki to Jyväskylä in 1939. After the Second World War, the former defensive arms factories of the Finnish state were combined under a new organization, the State Metal Factory (Valtion Metallitehtaat), the name of which was then shortened to Valmet. These factories were converted to produce goods for war recovery and civilian use, although the rifle factory also continued to produce military and civilian weapons until 1992. The first Valmet tractors were produced in 1951. The prototypes and the first ten tractors were the result of a collaboration between the artillery and rifle factories. The first tractors actually used sections of cannon barrels for their sub-frames.
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