Officina Meccanica della Stanga

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Officina Meccanica della Stanga
legal form
founding 1949
resolution 1956
Seat Manerbio , Italy
management
  • Gianfranco Stanga
  • Sandro Stanga
  • Camillo Stanga
Branch Automobiles

Stanga from 1951
Stanga 750 S (1956) during the Mille Miglia 2019

Officina Meccanica della Stanga was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The brothers Gianfranco, Sandro and Camillo Stanga founded the automobile production company in Manerbio in 1949 . The brand name was Stanga . Production ended in 1956. According to two sources, seven vehicles were built.

A connection to the tram and bus manufacturer with the similar name Officine Meccaniche della Stanga from Padua is not known.

vehicles

The company manufactured small sports cars on a Fiat basis. Four-cylinder engines with two overhead camshafts from Giannini were used in many vehicles . The displacement was 750 cm³. But there were also smaller engines with a capacity of 600 cc available. A single vehicle received an eight-cylinder engine from the Fiat 8V and a coupé body from Carrozzeria Motto . One source indicates that tubular frame of Gilco design formed the basis.

Races

The vehicles were used in the Mille Miglia in 1950 , 1951 , 1953 and 1957 .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Vaughan: Manufacturers / Fiat / 1951 Fiat Stanga On: www.conceptcarz.com from March 2017. (English, accessed on November 25, 2017)
  2. FIAT STANGA BARCHETTA by MOTTO 1951 (English, accessed November 25, 2017)
  3. Stanga 750 Sport (accessed November 25, 2017)