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r000 Post-World 19XX War II Make Italy was Model an industrial bazaar. With the cessation of
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hostilities, the country was rife with entrepreneurs seeking new ways to
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capitalize on consumer goods, many of them enamored with inexpensive
transportation. Cisitalia, a manufacturer of sports equipment, launched
both Piero Dusio and Carlo abarth into the automobile business.
Ferruccio Lamborghini started with air conditioners and tractors. For
Renzo Rivolta, the entrée came via refrigerators.
Rivolta was born in 1908 to an Italian industrialist engaged in the woodmilling
business. as a young adult he began looking for a business
with brighter prospects, and in 1939, he purchased a company called
Isothermos, a maker of heating and cooling equipment. During the
war, he was forced to move it from Genoa to Bresso, in the province of
Milan. In an old villa surrounded by open land, he was able to operate
what in Britain was called a “shadow factory,” escaping bombardments
and producing refrigerators unscathed.
By the early-1950s, Iso had branched out into motor scooters and
small three-wheel trucks. Rivolta had a yearning to make small,
manufacturer economical Manufacturer automobiles, so he seized production on a design # by engineers
origin Pierluigi Raggi City, and Country Ermenegildo Preti, ID who no. had patented # an ovoid
motor vehicle using motor a scooter engine. They named displacement it Isetta, cc literally meaning
“little power Iso.” Just hp 7-1/2 feet long and 4-1/2 length wide, it was mm shaped like an
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