Ellebi

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Industria Metallurgica Stampaggio Lamiera Ellebi
legal form Corporation
founding 1954
resolution 1986
Seat Turin and Grugliasco , Italy
Branch Body shop

Industria Metallurgica Stampaggio Lamiera Ellebi (short: Ellebi ) was an Italian automotive supplier , who held a press shop and body parts made in commission. Ellebi also temporarily produced complete bodies; for this the company used the brand name Carrozzeria Poccardi .

Company history

Ellebi was founded in 1954 by Dante Poccardi. The company was initially based in Turin .

Suppliers

Body parts pressed at Ellebi: Lancia Fulvia Sport

Ellebi sold auto accessories in the early years. From 1962 the company expanded. It went on to manufacture sheet metal parts itself; it maintained its own pressing facilities for this purpose. A little later, Ellebi designed and pressed entire body parts on behalf of series manufacturers. At that time, the company's headquarters were relocated to the Turin suburb of Grugliasco . Up until the 1980s, body parts were produced in Ellebis' press shop, including for the Lancia Fulvia Sport . In 1986 the company ceased operations.

Body manufacturer

Occasionally with “Poccardi” body: Monteverdi High Speed ​​375/4

At the end of the 1960s, Dante Poccardi tried to develop his company into an independent body manufacturer. In 1967 it built a two-door station wagon based on the Fiat 124 ("Fiat 124 Shopping"), a year later a comparable car based on the Fiat 125 , and in 1969 a two-door Fiat 125 notchback coupé was created. The designs for these three Models came from Pietro Frua . Only a prototype was created from each design. Ellebi used the name Carrozzeria Poccardi for the models . However, there was no independent company of this name; it was just a brand name.

Poccardi did not succeed in establishing itself as a body manufacturer over the long term. Only the Swiss sports car manufacturer Monteverdi had individual superstructures of its Gran Turismo High Speed ​​375 / L and the four-door sedan High Speed ​​375/4 built by Ellebi in the early 1970s when the regular body supplier Fissore was temporarily unable to meet demand due to capacity problems and strikes . Poccardi made eight copies of the High Speed ​​375/4. "Monteverdi-Poccardi" was specified as the manufacturer of these specimens.

literature

Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Società Editrice Il Cammello, Torino, 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alessandro Sannia: Enciclopedia dei carrozzieri italiani , Aesthetica 2017, ISBN 978-8896796412 , p. 202.
  2. ↑ Image of both vehicles on the website www.pietro-frua.de (accessed on November 15, 2017)
  3. ↑ Image of the vehicle on the website www.pietro-frua.de (accessed on November 15, 2017).
  4. ↑ Description of the Monteverdi high-speed series on http: liertraloe.com (accessed on November 15, 2017).