Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo is an Italian automobile manufacturing company, founded as "Darracq Italiana" by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan in partnership with the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq. The partnership refurbished an idle Darracq factory in Portello, a Milan suburb, but at the onset of World War I the company converted to a munitions factory and the partnership was dissolved.

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Italian - Automobile - Milan - French - Alexandre Darracq - Portello - World War I

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Alfa Romeo has been a part of Fiat SpA since 1987. The company was originally known as ALFA, which is an acronym meaning Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili. (First logo: http://www.asaf.co.il/alfa/images/19101915.gif)

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When Nicola Romeo, a mathematics professor, bought ALFA in 1915, his surname was appended to the company name. Within a few years of Nicola Romeo taking control, the company began to participate in Grand Prix motor racing.

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Nicola Romeo - Mathematics professor - 1915 - Grand Prix motor racing

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The company's first automobile was the 24 HP http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/AlfaTom2/galleria1/24hp.htm, which appeared in 1910, and the following year entered the Targa Florio, the special competition in Sicily.

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Targa Florio - Sicily

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