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Isotta Fraschini
Italian automotive and engine manufacturer
Isotta Fraschini
Isotta Fraschini (Italian pronunciation: [iˈzɔtta fraˈskiːni]) is an Italian luxury car manufacturer and industrial engineering business. Founded in Milan, Italy, in 1900 as Società Milanese Automobili Isotta, Fraschini & C. by Cesare Isotta and the Fraschini brothers, Vincenzo, Antonio, and Oreste, the company first started as an importer, assembling Mors and Renault automobiles with Aster engines, but by 1904, they began manufacturing their own products and were among the earliest users of the four-wheel brake system, the overhead camshaft configuration, and the straight-eight engine. By the 1920s, Isotta Fraschini gained notoriety among the upper class for their production of luxury cars and saw further prominence in media and literature. The Great Depression and the Second World War adversely affected Isotta Fraschini's automobile business in the 1930s, prompting the company to shift to producing industrial aircraft engines; however, they eventually ceased production altogether, entering...
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