Prinetti & Stucchi

Prinetti & Stucchi tricycle from 1899

Prinetti & Stucchi from 1899

Prinetti & Stucchi was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The Prinetti & Stucchi company from Milan , which produced bicycles and sewing machines , also began producing automobiles in 1898. In the same year Ettore Bugatti began his apprenticeship at this company. In 1902 the production of automobiles was stopped.

vehicles

There were tricycles produces and four-wheeled cars. Single-cylinder built -in engines from De Dion-Bouton provided the drive . Two single cylinder engines were installed in some vehicles. A prototype from Ettore Bugatti with four wheels and one motor per wheel did not go into series production. Bugatti later called it his Type 1. This vehicle has not survived.

A vehicle of this brand belongs to the collection of the Museo dell'Automobile Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia in Turin .

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. Courtille, 1975 (French)
• Hugh G. Conway: Les Grandes Marques: Bugatti Gründ, Paris, 1984, ISBN 2-7000-7175-8 . (French)

Web links

Commons : Prinetti & Stucchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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