IPV is a Spanish brand of
all-wheel-drive trucks, based in Pontenova,
province of Lugo,
Spain.IPV parent company, Mafsa, started in 1965 as a joint-venture of three local automotive workshops which had been during years re-conditioning ex-
Spanish Civil War light 4x4 trucks, mostly of Italian
OM manufacture, and fitting them with diesel engines.First Mafsa product was a narrow-width truck, with a very elementary cab and a choice of
Barreiros or
Perkins engines, specifically designed for North-western Spain logging industry, and nicknamed carroceta.
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Inactivated Polio Vaccine. The polio virus in IPV has been inactivated (killed). Also called the Salk vaccine (after the American physician-virologist Jonas Salk). See Immunization, polio.