Officine Ermini

Officine Ermini
legal form
founding	1948
resolution	1962
Seat	Florence , Italy
management	Pasquale Ermini
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Lettering

Officine Ermini was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Pasquale Ermini founded the company for the production of automobiles, especially sports cars, in Florence in 1948 . In 1962 the company was dissolved. A total of around 19 vehicles were built.

vehicles

The first model had a tubular frame chassis. A four-cylinder engine with DOHC valve control and two downdraft carburetors provided the drive . A five-speed gearbox was used. The Gran Sport Coupé was later presented at the Turin Motor Show. A four-cylinder engine from Fiat , which was enlarged to 1350 cm³ displacement , provided the drive . With DOHC valve control, double ignition and Weber carburettors, this engine developed 90 hp . Pietro Frua made the body . The 1100 model followed in 1956 , an open two-seater.

Ermini from 1951
Ermini from 1952
Ermini from 1955

Racing successes

In 1950 Ermini won the national sports car championship in the class up to 1100 cc. Aldo Terigi finished fourth in the overall ranking at the 1952 Targa Florio . Piero Scotti won his class on a Targa Florio.

literature

Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

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

erminiautomobili.it (Italian and English) (accessed February 12, 2012)
GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on April 12, 2014)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
↑ erminiautomobili.it (Italian and English) (accessed on February 12, 2012)

[Die_Internationale_Automobil-Enzyklopädie-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

[Beaulieu-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.

[Erminiautomobili-3] rminiautomobili.it (Italian and English) (accessed on February 12, 2012)