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• Mario Tadini
  ...ost of the initial capital for the Scuderia was put down by him. Tadini, a great stylist, never raced professionally. [[Ferrari]] said that he did not like *1936: DNF Monaco GP / 6 Tripoli GP / 4 Hungarian GP / 5 Milan GP / 1 Lucca GP / 2 Modena GP
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• Restelli
  ...ngine in 1920. Restelli himself took part in competitions in this car with great success. Although the company existed only until 1923, Restelli was very we
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• Iso Rivolta
  ...''. [[Renzo Rivolta]], heir of an important family of industrialists of [[Milan]], [[Italy]], changed his production portfolio from refrigeration units to ...ufacturers in several countries and was built in ([[France]], [[Spain]], [[Great Britain]]) and [[Brazil]]. The most successful, however, was the [[Germany
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• Lombardy
  capital = [[Milan]] | ...n]]. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy, and its capital ([[Milan]]) is the fourth largest [[conurbation]] in Europe with more than 6.5 milli
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• De Rosa
  '''Ugo De Rosa''' was born on the 27th of January 1934 in Milan, Italy. He attended primary school, middle school and a technical school wh ...g bicycle and his reputation began to spread among the amateur racers in [[Milan]].
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• Acerboni
  ''Mario '''Acerboni''''', a good motorcycle racer, born in [[Milan]] in 1889 and died in 1967, opened a motorcycle company with an attached sh ...the British Moto Panther, Coventry Eagle, but especially New Imperial made great use of them.
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• Ermenegildo Zegna
  ...]], but being so expensive, they were sold in limited numbers during the [[Great Depression|Depression]] and war years. ..., the Zegna Group has boutiques in [[Austria]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Great Britain]], [[Spain]], [[Turkey]], [[Mexico]], the [[United States]] and [[J
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• Bertoni (motocycle)
  ...cessionaire [[Gilera]] by [[Varese]], of which he was the owner. Given the great demand for motorcycles and mopeds often forced customers to long waits for ...in Villa - [[Motociclismo Historical]]''- 8-9 / [[1999]], [[Edisport]], [[Milan]]
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• Ugo Sivocci
  ...RL Targa Florio which was his major racing achievement, the whole race was great success to Alfa Romeo since also second (Ascari) and fourth place ([[Giulio
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• Montescani
  ...ertible]]. Moreover, its production, mainly directed towards creation then great value, but not to forget the car sector economics and law.
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• Gianca
  ...and the other to sell the project a new company: [[San Christopher]] in [[Milan]]. San Christopher, Having bought the rights to this project, changed some
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• Nicola Romeo
  ...company became successful he wanted to expand and acquired a majority of [[Milan]] based car manufacturing company A.L.F.A. in 1915. Only three years later, ...or keep the studies. in higher education was a way to approach and achieve great familiarity with mathematics also thanks to his father, elementary teacher,
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• Cinelli
  '''Cinelli''' is an Italian [[bicycle]] manufacturing company based in [[Milan]], [[Italy]], producing mostly road [[bicycles]] and components. Cinelli h Some may remember him for his cycling career, many for his great gifts given to cycling, the modern handlebar, the first saddle with a plast
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• Nassetti
  ''Info from documents of the [[Milan]] Chamber of Commerce as follows:'' ...he name "Ettore Nassetti - Precision Mechanics Workshop", established in [[Milan]], Via Boiardo 27. The shares of capital between the two partners were allo
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• Milan
  ! colspan=2 |'''Milan''' |Province || [[Province of Milan|Milan]] (MI)
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• Cabi-Cattaneo
  ...Marine Development Applications. The plant is located at via Gallarate 64, Milan. Its production capability includes a wide range of numerically controlled ...ory that is otherwise claimed for N. 1005. Personally, I think it would be great if there was another car that was built to essentially the same design and
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• Borrani
  ...ope BV group. The activities were moved to Rozzano on the southern edge of Milan. At these new facilities, the traditional production machines were rebuilt On April 22, 1922 '''Rudge Whitworth Milano''' was established in Milan, Italy. The primary focus for the company at that time was production and c
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• Giro di Lombardia
  ...') is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[cycling]] race. It is traditionally the last great [[Classic cycle races|Classic]] of the European professional cycling calend ...o its current name. During the decades the route has changed many times. [[Milan]], [[Sesto San Giovanni]], [[Bergamo]], [[Varese]], [[Monza]], [[Cuneo]] ha
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• Lombardia
  |Capital ||[[Milan]] ...vince of Lodi|Lodi]]<br />[[Province of Mantua|Mantua]]<br />[[Province of Milan|Milano]]<br />[[Province of Monza e Brianza|Monza e Brianza]] (effective in
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• TM
  It all started way back in 1976 with two friends who had one great love in common: [[motorcycles]] and [[racing]]. Thanks to the excellent qua ...r in a few years assimilated considerable experience working in sectors of great technical interest such as the [[Motobì]] racing department and the [[Bene
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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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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,"
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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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• Junior
  ..., cars need a robust and simple that not having a speed that it has a very great ease of operation and repair and present the least possible Pannes boring. ...rse, because it was the only way to overcome a rise of 33%. Thus aroused a great eco firm of Baron Guy De Martino, known sportsman and member of the Turin,
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• Culture of Italy
  ...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
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• Sanremo
  ...city and connects it to the other Ligurian cities, as well as with Nice, [[Milan]], [[Turin]] and [[Rome]]. ...one of the five '[[Classic cycle races|Monuments]]' of the cycling season. Milan-Sanremo is traditionally held in March, and is one of the first major fixtu
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• Gilco
  [[Angelo Luigi Colombo]] is in [[Milan]], in [[Via Stradella]], society AL Colombo: This workshop is produced init The A.L. Columbus moved the production plant in the great way [[Tanzi]].
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• Alfa Romeo Giulietta
  | Assembly || [[Portello (district)|Portello]], [[Milan]], [[Italy]] (Berlina)<br />[[Grugliasco]], [[Turin]], [[Italy]] (Sprint, B * ''Great Marques Alfa Romeo'', David Owen, Octopus Books, ISBN 0-7064-22198
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• Salami
  ...rigin. Examples include [[Arles]], [[Genoa]], [[Hungary|Hungarian]] and [[Milan]]o salame. Many are flavored with garlic. Some types — including a few ...the most expensive and well-regarded types of salame, the Felino, brings a great amount of money to the local industry of the province of Parma and Emilia-R
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• San Pellegrino
  ...[mineral water]], produced and bottled at [[San Pellegrino Terme]], near [[Milan]], [[Italy]]. San Pellegrino's sources are three deep [[spring (water)|spri ...ent point, located on the [[Dolomite]] range. The water then seeps down to great depths (over 2,200 feet) and begins a long underground journey, into an [[a
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• Vittorio Brambilla
  ...t the [[1975 Swedish Grand Prix]], where he secured pole position. But his great day came at the [[Österreichring]] in 1975, when he won a wet [[Austrian G He died at [[Lesmo]], near [[Milan]], of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] at the age of 63 while garde
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• Lombards
  ...they were mainly shepherds and farmers until, in the [[4th century]], the great migrations of peoples coming from East changed the situation. At the end of ...[[569]], the Lombards conquered the main Roman centre of Northern Italy, [[Milan]]. The area was then recovering from the terrible [[Gothic Wars]], and the
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• Verona
  ...na: the [[Via Claudia Augusta]], [[Via Gallica]] and [[Via Postumia]]. The great Roman poet Q. Valerius [[Catullus]] was a native of Verona. ...] rule from [[Ravenna]], followed by [[Ostrogoth]] rule by [[Theodoric the Great]], who built a castle here. [[Lombard]] King [[Alboin]] was murdered by his
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