Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Italy: Diatto, Autobianchi, Bizzarrini, O.S.C.A., Iso Rivolta, Aurea, Nardi, Chiribiri, Cisitalia, Bandini Automobili, Innocenti, Itala, Siata, Puma, Automobili Turismo e Sport, Moretti Motor Company, Automobili Stan

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Diatto, Autobianchi, Bizzarrini, O.S.C.A., Iso Rivolta, Aurea, Nardi, Chiribiri, Cisitalia, Bandini Automobili, Innocenti, Itala, Siata, Puma, Automobili Turismo e Sport, Moretti Motor Company, Automobili Stanguellini, Aquila Italiana, Della Ferrera, Cizeta, SPA, LMX Sirex, Maserati, Maggiora, Temperino, Enrico Bernardi, Zust, Prinetti & Stucchi, Scuderia Serenissima, Autozodiaco, Ceirano GB & C, ASA, SCAT, Fial, Storero, Brixia-Zust, Ansaldo, Ferves, IENA, Amilcar Italiana, Fimer, Standard, Peugeot-Croizat, Marca-Tre-Spade. Excerpt: Diatto was an Italian car maker founded in 1905 in Turin but its history started 175 years ago. 1835-The year the company is founded. - In 1835, in Turin, on the banks of the river Po, Guglielmo Diatto founds a workshop for the construction of carriages for nobility. - The Diatto ¿Manifattura di Carrozze¿ (Carriage Manufacture) is already a large industrial concern, established over a vast area which is owned by the company. - 1838-The first patent. - Guglielmo DIATTO, 33 years old, an inventive and enterprising craftsman, patents a ¿perfected wheel¿, the first in a series of technological innovations that would make the fortunes of three generations of industrialists (the patent is held at the National Museum dell¿Automobile in Turin, which displays a DIATTO car). - 1864-Railway carriage construction for Europe. - The founder¿s sons Giovanni and Battista Diatto, construct railway carriages for the luxury Compagnie des Wagons Lits et des Grands Express Europeens, TEE Trans Europe-Orient Express of Paris, the most luxury train in the world at the time. - AT THE START OF 1900. - 1905-Diatto veichles. - The engineers Vittorio and Pietro DIATTO, grandsons of the founder Guglielmo (the third generation of the dynasty of distinguished industrialists), decide to manufacture sports cars to sell to their vast international wealthy carriage customers. In Turin, on April 12th 1905, they found the ¿Società Diatto-A. Clement¿ in partnership with the French company A. Clément Bayard, from Levallois Perret, Paris. - The company has a workforce of 500 (by way of comparison Fiat has a workforce of 776) and produces cars, initially with engines with 4 and 6 cylinders and, after the first world war, also 8 cylinders with compressor, aluminium pistons with 4 valves, up to 6,000 cc. - 1909-Diatto begins exporting internationally. - In 1909 the Diatto brothers buy the participation of their French partners and the name of the company changes in ¿Autocostruzioni Diattö. - Also thanks to