Officine Meccanica Giuseppe Meldi

Officine Meccanica Giuseppe Meldi
legal form
founding	1921
resolution	1953
Seat	Turin , Italy
management	Giuseppe Meldi
Branch	Automobile manufacturer

Officine Meccanica Giuseppe Meldi was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles and sidecars .

Company history

Giuseppe Meldi founded the company in 1921 and began producing sidecars and automobiles. The brand name was Meldi . In 1933 the production of automobiles ended, which amounted to only twelve copies. The sidecars were built until 1953.

Automobiles

The automotive industry uses it was cyclecars . The basis was a model by Della Ferrera . For the drive were air-cooled V-2 engines of Della Ferrera with 1,000 cc displacement and four-cylinder engines of Chapuis-Dornier 750 cc and Citroën with 855 cc capacity available. The vehicles offered either space for two or four people.

literature

• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
• Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
• Collective of authors: Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Brands · Models · Technology. Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg, 1989

Web links

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH (accessed on February 12, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
2. ^ Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. 2001.