Nazzaro
Turin Nazzaro & C. Factory Automobiles
In the beginnig of July 1911 Felice Nazzaro, asserted champion of flying, decided to undertake the activity of constructor with help from the brother-in-law Pilade Masoero and engineer Arnaldo Zoller, known in order to have run for the Fiat colors, founded Turin Nazzaro & C. Factory Automobiles. The first car constructed by the young company in 1922 was the Tipo 2, with a 4 cylinder monoblock with 4398cm³, 20/30 HP and a maximum speed of 100 km/h. With this car, opportunely elaborated, Felice Nazzaro prevailed at the Targa Florio of 1913. In the same year they introduced the Tipo 3 with greater power (35 HP), which Nazzaro succeeded to race in the Florio Goblet. In 1914 debut to the GP of the Automobile came tried also the road of the Great Prix (Club of France), but with insufficient happening. In 1915, at the beginnig of the hostilities, the Nazzaro, like nearly all the other Italian mechanical factories, dedication to the construction of war material, and in particular of trucks equips you from propulsori Anzani to 10 cylinders. Unfortunately the governmental store clerks were not such to prevent the putting in liquidation of the society in 1916, although meantime had been realized also Tipo 4. An attempt to make to rinascere the Nazzaro brand came made in 1919 with Tipo 5 (produced in the version Sport), which was commercialized until 1923, year in which the Nazzaro sluice came definitively.