The History of Alfa Romeo

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The history of Alfa Romeo
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The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) in 1906 by the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq, with some Italian investors. One of them, Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan, became chairman of the SAID in 1909.The firm's initial location was in Naples, but even before the construction of the planned factory had started, Darracq decided late in 1906 that Milan would be more suitable and accordingly a tract of land was acquired in the Milan suburb of Portello, where a new factory of 6,700 square metres (8,000 sq yd) was erected. Late 1909, the Italian Darracq cars were selling slowly and Stella, with the other Italian co-investors, founded a new company named A.L.F.A. (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili), initially still in partnership with Darracq. The first non-Darracq car produced by the company was the 1910 24 HP, designed by Giuseppe Merosi, hired in 1909 for designing new cars more suited to the Italian market. Merosi would go on to design a series of new A.L.F.A. cars, with more powerful engines (40–60 HP). A.L.F.A. ventured into motor racing, with drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24-hp models. In 1914, an advanced Grand Prix car was designed and built, the GP1914, with a four-cylinder engine, double overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, and twin ignition.However, the onset of the First World War halted automobile production at A.L.F.A. for three years.

In August 1915, the company came under the direction of Neapolitan entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, who converted the factory to produce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war efforts. Munitions, aircraft engines and other components, compressors, and generators based on the company's existing car engines were produced in a vastly enlarged factory during the war. After the war, Romeo invested his war profits in acquiring locomotive and railway carriage plants in Saronno (Costruzioni Meccaniche di Saronno), Rome (Officine Meccaniche di Roma), and Naples (Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali), which were added to his A.L.F.A. ownership.

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"When I see an Alfa Romeo passing by, I tip my hat" Henry Ford 🙂

tihomirvachkov

Completely forgot the MiTo. One of my favourite cars of Alfa Romeo. And one I own.

LukeGB

159 2.4 JTDm Sportwagon, the sexiest stationwagon ever made.

hdgungor

Super i recommend it! Every Alfa Romeo fan should watch it. Good job Touring Car Show.

vesselinpekov

you forgot the new giulietta and mito wich arfe pretty important in alfas history aswell. MiTo was a cute car that sold well in europe and brought the company some money and so the they could make the giuliettas and start prioritising safety. The giulietta was the safest car of its year even better then the volvos and even itoday its a tank of crash safety compared to most monder cars just loosing stars because it has no sensors for stopping. But the safety aspect continued to giulia and stelvio which where aso on top of the charts. Making Alfa the most sefest to drive car company

Jatzuac

The most beautiful alfa video!!! Ceep up the great job... Bravo

justrumen

I bought a 164 new in 1994 with the 24v V6 engine and owned it for 24 years with only about 63, 000 miles before having to sell it to make room for a Giulia 🍀. This was not a popular car in the U.S. as stated in the video and no special versions were built exclusively for here. In fact versions were made in Europe and Japan that may have helped sell more cars if sold here.

scottbl

Beethovens IX symphony is inappropriate here, IMO. Its nowdays identified with EU (rotten) structures, and Alfa should be seen as exceptionally Italian national asset :) thanks for the video btw, its nice

agenturawubekistanie

Thanks this content really helped me! Well done

arunteelock

I appreciate your video contents very much! However, the background music is too loud I couldn’t really hear your voice description . I wish I could turn the background music to much lower level and pay attention to your words

yeungkawo

Много добре е станало клипчето...образователно😉

alexanderdimitrov

The badge. On the left side we have the insigna of municipality of Milan (Mediolanum in latin is like Midland) of 12th century. On the right the Visconti Dukes insigna of 14th century. It's not a drake, but a big snake with a man in its mouth. It came from an old legend that took about a big snake living in the swamp around Milan and eating people.

robertoorsi

So many different alfa's forgotten here....but its a nice video. Stelvio is not the first SUV theres one in 20's, seams an silver rocket ...beautiful and the first F1 with spoilers in the 30s aerodinamica...

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