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Turin Nazzaro & C. Factory Automobiles
At the beginnig of the July 1911 Felice Nazzaro, asserted champion of flying, decided to undertake the activity of constructor helped from the brother-in-law Pilade Masoero and engineer Arnaldo Zoller, known in order to have run for the Fiat colors, founded therefore to Turin Nazzaro & C. Factory Automobiles. The first car constructed from the young company was Tipo 2 of 1912, that it mounted 4 cylinders monoblock to long race of 4398 cm ³ from 20/30 HP and the maximum speed of approximately 100 km/h. With this car, opportunely elaborated, same Felice Nazzaro was prevailed in Targa Florio of 1913. In the same year it came introduced Tipo 3 of mechanical characteristic pars but with greater power (35 HP), with which Nazzaro it succeeded to adjudicate the Florio Goblet. In 1914 debut to the GP of the Automobile came tried also the road of the Great Prix (Club of France), but with insufficient happening. In 1915, at the beginnig of the hostilities, the Nazzaro, like nearly all the other Italian mechanical factories, dedication to the construction of war material, and in particular of trucks equips you from propulsori Anzani to 10 cylinders. Unfortunately the governmental store clerks were not such to prevent the putting in liquidation of the society in 1916, although meantime had been realized also Tipo 4. An attempt to make to rinascere the Nazzaro brand came made in 1919 with Tipo 5 (produced in the version Sport), which was commercialized until 1923, year in which the Nazzaro sluice came definitively.