In 1933 Alfa Romeo came under State ownership and the Alfa Romeo Monopostos were withdrawn from racing until right at the end of the season. car, which proved virtually unbeatable and bore affinities with the Alfa Romeo Type A racing car of 1931 powered by two 1.750cc engines side by side. In 1932 this engine, in 2.65-litre form, powered the Alfa Romeo Type B P3 Monoposte G.P. This engine also powered the successful Grand Prix Alfa Romeo of 1931, known as the Alfa Romeo‘Monza’ model and raced for the factory by Scuderia Ferrari. The latter omission was rectified from 1931 to 1934 when victory at Le Mans each year went to Jano’s next sports car design, which had a 2.3-litre straight-eight supercharged engine with a central drive to the overhead camshafts. When supercharged, these cars won all the great sports car races in the period 1928-1930, with the exception of Le Mans. Jano took over from Merosi in 1926 and his first touring and sports car designs soon became world famous, these having single and twin overhead camshaft 6-cylinder engines, first in 1.500cc and then in 1.750cc form. In 1925 Alfa Romeo were declared World Champions. In 1924 Alfa Romeo won the very first Grande Epreuve they ever entered, an unparalleled achievement, when Campari was victorious in the 1924 French Grand Prix at Lyons in the new straight-eight supercharged P2 car, designed by Vittorio Jano, who came from Fiat. The similar 4-cylinder 2-litre type RM was marketed in 1923-26, but the pointed radiator sports 22/90hp RLSS and the touring 21/70hp RLT, which had a flat radiator, were sold until 1927. A racing version won the 1923 Targa Florio. #ALFA ROMEO DISCO VOLANTE PRICE SERIES#A 6-cylinder luxury side-valve car called the G1 was not a success, but Merosi’s best remembered designs followed it the 3-litre 6-cylinder push-rod ohv touring, sports and racing RL series cars which first appeared in 1921 and went into production in 1922. The 20/30 ES Sport of 1921-22 was successful in Italian races, as was a special racing 40/60 driven by Campari, which scored the firm’s first victory at Mugello in 1920. In 1915 the factory was taken over by the industrialist Nicola Romeo, and after World War 1 the pre-war models were marketed as Alfa Romeos. A one-off 4½-litre Grand Prix car was built in 1914 with a 4-cylinder twin ohc engine, but it never ran in international races. In 1913 the sports 6.1-litre 40/60hp appeared with push-rod overhead valves operated by two camshafts in the crankcase. Both were well made, with side-valve 4-cylinder monobloc engines and shaft drive. The first Alfas were a 24hp 4.1-litre car, later known as the 20/30hp, and a 12hp, 2.4-litre, which became the 15/20hp. Giuseppe Merosi, a native of Piacenza, who had been Chief Technician with Bianchi in Milan. Ugo Stella, formerly managing director of the Società Italiana Automobili Darracq, to manufacture a completely new range of Italian cars at Portello on the outskirts of Milan where, since 1906, small French Darracq cars had been assembled.īy 1910 the last Darracq had left the factory, and production commenced of a sturdy range of Alfa cars designed from scratch by Cav. (Anonima Lombardo Fabbrica Automobili) was founded in 1909 by Cav. Nicola Romeo & C, Milan, 1914 – 1930 (3) SA Alfa Romeo, Milan, 1930 – 1942 (4) Alfa Romeo SpA, Milan, 1942 to date (5) Alfa Romeo SpA, Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples, 1971 to dateĪ.L.F.A. (Anonima Lombardo Fabbrica Automobili), Milan, 1910 – 1914 (2) SA Italiana Ing. Alfa Romeo Italy, 1910 to date (1) A.L.F.A.
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