Fabbrica di Automobili Florentia

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Florentia from 1903

Florentia was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Fabbrica di Automobili Florentia from Florence started producing automobiles in 1903. From 1906 boat engines were also manufactured. Production ended in 1912.

vehicles

In the beginning there was the two-cylinder model 10 HP based on its own design. After 1905, models were manufactured under license from Rochet-Schneider . In 1905 the four-cylinder models 16 HP and 24 HP appeared . In 1906 the 18/22 HP model with a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 4400 cm³ was added. In 1907 the largest 40/50 HP models appeared with a four-cylinder engine and 9900 cm³ displacement and a six-cylinder model with 6600 cm³ displacement.

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Museo dell'Automobile Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia in Turin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Borgeson: Bugatti by Borgeson - The dynamics of mythology (1981); P. 137

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The great automobile encyclopedia. BLV, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-405-12974-5
• George Nick Georgano : Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Éditions de la Courtille, Paris 1975 (French)
• Griffith Borgeson: Bugatti by Borgeson - The dynamics of mythology (1981), Osprey Publishing Limited, London ISBN 0-85045-414-X (English)

Web links

Commons : Florentia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on December 22, 2013)