Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A in Italian “alpha romɛːo” is the Italian car manufacturer. Established as A.L.F.A. on June 24, 1910 in Milan. the company has participated in motorsports since 1911 and has built a reputation for building top-class sports car. The company was founded by the Italian state holding company “Istituto per la Ricostruzione” owned industries since the year 1932-1986, when it became part of the Fiat group and since February 2007, part of Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A.
Alfa Romeo company as Societa Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) in 1906, founded by Alexandre Darracq French car company, with some Italian investors. In late 1909, Italian Darracq cars sold slowly and formed a new company called ALFA (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili, in English: Lombard Automobile Factory, Public Company) initially in partnership with Darracq. The first non-Darracq car produced by the company in 1910 24 HP, designed by Giuseppe Merosi. A.L.F.A. ventured into the racing, with drivers Franchini and Ronzoni competing in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24-hp model. In August 1915 the company came under the direction of Naples entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, who converted the factory to produce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war effort. In 1920 the name of Alfa Romeo with the Torpedo 20-30 hp as the first car badged as they change.

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa broke after defense contracts ended, and in late 1932 Alfa Romeo Benito Mussolini’s government, controlled and stored effectively. Alfa factory struggling back to profitability after the Second World War and turned to mass production of small cars, not a hand-built luxury models. The company, which was developed in 1954 the classic Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine that will remain in production until 1995. During the 1960s and the 1970s produced a series of Alfa Romeo sports cars, although the government fought the Italian parent company, Finmeccanica, to make a profit, so the brand of the Fiat Group were sold in 1986 to make it.
Alfa Romeo has competed successfully in various categories of motorsport, including the Grand Prix motor racing, Formula One, sports cars, touring cars and rally. They have both competed as a constructor and engine supplier, via works entries (usually under the name Alfa Corse or Delta) and personal notes. The first race car built in 1913, three years after founding the company, and Alfa Romeo won the first world championship for Grand Prix cars in 1925.
The company became Alfa Romeo was founded as Societa Anonima Italiana Darracq in 1906 by Alexandre Darracq French car manufacturers, some Italian investors. One of them, Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat in Milan, he became president, in 1909. The company’s first location. There Naples, but before the plan began Darracq plant decided in late 1906, the Milan would be an appropriate location and appropriate land acquired at the edge Portelli Milan, where the new plant 6700 square meters (8,000 square meters) was established. Late in 1909 Darracq cars sold in Italy and slowly Stella, the other Italian co-investors, founded a new company called ALFA (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobil), initially co-Darracq. Non-Darracq car first produced in 1910, the company has 24 HP, designed by Giuseppe Meros, chartered in 1909 to design a new car more suitable for the Italian market. The meter will go on to design a series of new ALFA cars more powerful engines (40-60 hp). A.L.F.A. ventured into motor racing, drivers and Ronzone Franchino compete in the 1911 Targa Florio with two 24 HP models. In 1914, an advanced Grand Prix car designed and built, GP1914 featuring four-cylinder, two overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder and dual pengapian.namun, Beginning of the First World War to stop the production of car ALFA for three years.

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[In 1908 Darracq 8 / 10 HP built its predecessor Alfa Romeo Darracq Italiana]

In August 1915 the company came under the direction of Naples entrepreneur Nicola Romeo, who converted the factory to produce military hardware for the Italian and Allied war effort. Munitions, aircraft engines and other components, compressors and generators based on the company’s existing car engines are manufactured in a factory to expand dramatically during the war. When the war was over, Romeo invested profits of war to get the locomotive and rail transport plants in Saronno (Costruzioni Meccaniche in Saronno), Rome (Officine Meccaniche in Rome) and Naples (Officine Ferroviarie Meridionali) was added to his holdings ALFA.

In automobile production awalny not examined, but resumed in 1919, when the part to the completion of 105 cars still on the ALFA factory since 1915. In 1920 the company name changed to Alfa Romeo with the Torpedo 20-30 HP became the first car badged as such. Their first success came in 1920 when Giuseppe Campari won at Mugello and continued with second place in the Targa Florio driven by Enzo Ferrari. Giuseppe Merosi continue as chief designer and the company continues to produce solid road cars as well as successful race cars (including the 40-60 HP and the RL Targa Florio).

In 1923 Vittorio Jano was away from Fiat, partly thanks to the persuasion of a young driver named Alfa Enzo Ferrari, to replace Merosi as chief designer at Alfa Romeo. The first Alfa Romeo under Jano was the P2 Grand Prix car Alfa Romeo won the first World Championship Grand Prix car in 1925. For road cars Jano developed a series Alfa small, medium-displacement 4 6 and 8 cylinder inline power plants based on the P2 unit that established the classic architecture of Alfa engines, with light alloy construction, hemispherical combustion chamber, located in the center wall, two rows lining the valve per cylinder bank and dual overhead cams. Jano design proven both reliable and robust.

Enzo Ferrari proved to be a better team manager than driver, and when it privatized the factory team, then became Scuderia Ferrari. When leaving Alfa Romeo Ferrari, he continued to build his own car. Tazio Nuvolari often drove for Alfa, winning many races before World War II.

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[ 8C 2900B Touring Spider -1937 ]

In 1928 Nicola Romeo left, with Alfa broke after defense contracts ended, and in late 1932 Alfa Romeo was rescued by the government, which then had effective control. Alfa become an instrument of Mussolini’s Italy, the national emblem. During this period Alfa Romeo vehicles built bespoke for the rich, the body that normally built by Touring of Milan or Pinin Farina. This is the era that culminated with the legendary Alfa Romeo 2900B Type 35 racers.
Alfa factory (converted during wartime to the production of Macchi C.202 Folgore engines) was bombed during World War II and struggled to return to profitability after the war. Luxury cars that come out. Small mass-produced cars began to be produced at the factory Alfa starting with model year 1954, with the introduction of the Giulietta series Berline (saloons / sedans), coupes and open two-seaters. All three varieties shared what will be the ALFA Romeo classic Twin overhead cam four-cylinder engine, the first in the form of 1300 cc. These machines will eventually be expanded to 2 liters (2000 cc) and will remain in production until 1995.

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[The A.L.F.A 24 HP (this is the body of the torpedo Castagna) cars made by Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili ANONIMA fist in 1910]

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