The History Of Alfa Romeo
Part of the Fiat group since the mid-eighties, the Italian Alfa Romeo Car Company was founded in 1910 in Milan. Originally, the Italian company Darracq (EC) company was founded the group in 1906 and is located in Naples. The group is behind the French company Le Alexandre Darracq and Italian investors with Alexandre Darracq, following the decision, the company in Milan, where he created eight thousand square meters of new factory to accommodate new company car to move. An Italian investors, the noble Ugo Stella, decided to delay a new social form of Alafia Italian car sales Darracq.
Rent Joseph Designer to design Merosi new Alfa was a success, with the first car was a 24th in 1910 HP The car was raced in the Targa Florio in 1911, led by Franchini and Ronzoni. The production of cars from Alfa and partnership Darracq stopped for three years, today shortly after the start of the First World War. Nicola Romeo, the contractor began in Naples, he lead the company in 1915, the production of components for the Italian soldiers. Taking advantage of war, Romeo plowed money into its portfolio companies after the war was over, the addition of various railway systems. Although Romeo has less interest in car manufacturing, the company began to produce cars for parts of cars already in the possession of the company, enough to produce over a hundred cars. Romeo has changed the company name of Alfa Romeo in 1920, with new cars that show the new maps. The success of many products and car street racing, Alfa Romeo Joseph Merosi selected as chief designer.
Joseph Merosi version of the chief engineer Vittorio Jano at Alfa Romeo, a former designer of Fiat, of persuading him, was the driver of Enzo Ferrari at Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo Racing move. Penning drawings for the World Cup in Grand Prix winner in 1925 and design a path to the cars success medium-sized producers, saw Vittorio Jano developed as fast, powerful and well-designed cars.
The decline in financial freefall after the war was over orders to Nicola Romeo parted with the company, so that the government intervene in the market in order to save production. The company has to make more high-end exotics for wealthy clients. Second World War, the factory by cutting the company’s finances, the Alfa Romeo led sometimes desperate, unable to produce a Non-Profit Corporation bombed. The time for the mass production of luxury cars were smaller and less on the cards, cars, since the introduction of the Giulietta series.