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• Serpollet
  ...talian automotive steam car manufacturer (under French licence) based in [[Milan]] with operations in 1906 through 1908. ...utility, but the beginning of the twentieth century these results were of great significance for the era. It is also interesting that the car was a steam S
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• Nagase & Ray
  '''Nagase & Ray''' is a Italian [[motorcycle]] company founded in [[Milan]] in [[1925]]. But the clouds of "[[Great Depression]]" are appearing on the horizon. In November [[1929]], after the
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• Antonio Ascari
  ...May 26]], [[1955]]) was one of [[Formula One]]'s first stars and the first great [[Ferrari]] driver. Born in [[Milan, Italy]], Ascari had racing in his blood, as his father [[Antonio Ascari]]
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• Culture
  ...f modern Italian. Examples include [[Milanese]], spoken near the city of [[Milan]], [[Neapolitan]], spoken near [[Naples]], [[Sicilian]], spoken on Sicily, ...n]] and the [[Itala Film]]. Other companies would soon have followed in [[Milan]] and in [[Naples]]. In a short time these first companies reached a fair p
  11 KB (1,610 words) - 08:51, 15 June 2009
• Zust
  ...Lake Maggiore), his children in 1905 decided to open a second factory in [[Milan]], to build their own cars and commercial vehicles. The first two ZÜST mod ...ctober 1, 1917 '''ZÜST''' was absorbed by the [[Officine Meccaniche]] of [[Milan]], the future [[OM]], one of the ancestors of [[Fiat]] and [[IVECO]]. [http
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• Ducati car
  ...U4, the automobile never went into production. Perhaps this was due to the great success of the Cucciolo – so much so that the company decided not to inve ...ved the company from potential closing. The Castiglioni brothers and their great enthusiasm saved Ducati from becoming an engine storage house and nothing e
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• Borile
  ...ilable on the market with a maniacal attention to particulars, and proving great satisfaction for each assembled piece. With the Borile B500T, shown at the 1997 at EICMA exhibition in Milan, took a new direction proposing the classic look of the “60’s” inspir
  4 KB (539 words) - 15:54, 4 March 2010
• Mondonico
  ...ia are from Giuseppe Mondonico's collection of racers and racing from that great age of cycling. With the coming of the great worldwide depression in 1932, Mauro says, the majority of the work done in
  15 KB (2,490 words) - 14:00, 11 February 2009
• Orlandi
  ...on the gold medal at the 1901 ''International Automobile Exhibition'' in [[Milan]] in September that same year. They started the first experimental use of m ...ained a marginal production of ''Orlandi''. In the '30s, cars were made of great formal elegance, intended for widespread use and popularity and increased b
  4 KB (600 words) - 20:34, 11 December 2016
• Touring
  '''Carrozzeria Touring''' (established [[March 25]], [[1926]] in [[Milan]], discontinued 1966) was an Italian [[automobile]] [[coachbuilder]] famous ...on, [[Antonio Ascari]], and was located in a suburb immediately north of [[Milan]] (in via Ludovico de Breme 65) only a short distance from Alfa Romeo, Ital
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• Alfa Romeo Visconti
  ...hip. Not a traditional 4-door three-volume sedan, but an almost two-volume great sports car, with a downward sloping shaped tail-end”. The ultimate outcome is known as Visconti, a name chosen in honor of a Milan family ancestry, the coat of arms of which represents the Alfa Romeo marque
  9 KB (1,490 words) - 13:31, 8 October 2009
• Brembo
  ...re a leading provider of performance braking systems and components, and a great deal of the research done on braking systems comes out of Brembo. They are ...[[Lancia]], [[BMW]], [[Nissan]], and [[Chrysler]]. They went public on the Milan Stock Exchange in [[1995]], and now sell over 1300products world wide.
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• Issi
  ...e ''(Istituto Scientifico Sperimentale Industriale)'' (ISSI), located in [[Milan]], via Ugo Bassi number 21. Note that it was a [[prototype]] and there is v Launched as a ''Covered [[Scooter]]'', the''Microbe'' was to be a great means of essential transport for doctors, engineers, salesmen, travelers an
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• Officine Meccaniche
  ...ly|Italian]] car and truck manufacturing company, founded in [[1899]] in [[Milan]] as Societa Anonima Officine Meccaniche. SA Officine Meccaniche had a long Founded in 1899 in Milan, as a result of the merger of "Grondona Com & C" and "Miani Silvestri & C,"
  8 KB (1,279 words) - 12:01, 19 September 2017
• Giuseppe Campari
  ...e Giuseppe Campari''' near the city of [[Lodi, Italy|Lodi]] southwest of [[Milan, Italy]], as a teenager he went to work for the [[Alfa Romeo]] automobile c ...quantities that he liked to prepare himself, and the opera. Blessed with a great [[baritone]] voice from the depths of an expansive paunch, he took singing
  6 KB (926 words) - 10:25, 23 October 2009
• Italjet
  ...with the air, and cultivating it through the example and the memory of his great sports undertakings. ...a motorcycle brand intended for those who look for power and lifestyle. In Milan the past edition of Cycle and Motorcycle offered two proposals that aesthet
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• Tre Spade
  ...was right. To succeed in a sea so treacherous to be the great company with great strengths and capital equipment production, while it was destined to fail h
  8 KB (1,331 words) - 22:25, 17 December 2016
• MM
  * [[Milan-Napoli]] [[1925]] ...ycle|motorcycles]] with rigid frame and a hand gear change, but with their great quality and reliability, they become the "official motorcycle" of the [[Tra
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• Gilera
  ...s]], founded by[[Giuseppe Gilera]] in 1909 opening its small workshop in [[Milan]] and subsequently a factory in [[Arcore]], in [[Province of Monza and Bria ...the World, three [[Tourist Trophy]], seven Sample Italian and one to you [[Milan-Taranto]].
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• ISO
  ...family of industrialists of [[Bresso]], a small town on the outskirts of [[Milan]] ([[Italy]]), changed his production portfolio to mopeds and motorbikes in ...tomobile manufacturers in several countries: France (by [[VELAM]]), Spain, Great Britain and Brazil (by [[Romi]]). The most successful, however, was the Ger
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