Dell'Orto

Dell'Orto , also DellOrto, is an Italian company that was founded in 1933 by Gaetano Dell'Orto and his sons in Cabiate and continues to manufacture carburetors and injection systems for motor vehicles worldwide . Dell'Orto was the largest supplier of motorcycle carburetors in Europe from the 1960s to the 1980s ; today the company works closely with Robert Bosch GmbH and Mikuni .

History and products

The first Dell'Orto carburetor was the SC 26 type, which was launched on the market in 1933. The next types of carburetors became standard for the Italian motorcycle industry in the 1950s: Aprilia , Benelli , Ducati , Laverda , Moto Guzzi , MV Agusta , Piaggio , but also manufacturers of small motorcycles , mopeds and mopeds . German manufacturers such as BMW also used piston slide carburettor Dell'Orto, as in the BMW R 90 S . The last Dell'Orto carburettors in motorcycles with two-stroke engines were on the Aprilia RS 125 until 2012 - newer motorcycle models have gasoline injection in order to meet the Euro 3 emissions standard.

In the mid-1960s, Dell'Orto supplied carburetors not only for motorcycles and the car industry, for example for Innocenti , Alfa Romeo , Ford , Lotus , Lancia , Fiat , etc. a. also Citroën 2CV , but also for the manufacturers of chainsaws and generators . In the early 1990s, Dell'Orto developed electronically controlled carburetor systems and injection systems for Aprilia and BMW ( BMW S 1000 RR ).