Società Industriale Lavorazioni Acciai

The Società Industriale Lavorazioni Acciai was an Italian manufacturer of toys and automobiles .

Company history

The Turin-based company , which was already making toys, began producing automobiles in 1959. The brand name was SILA . Production ended in 1961.

vehicles

The only model Autoretta was an open microcar . The chassis carried the steering column, two seats, the tank, the engine and the four fenders. In addition, there was no body . The single - cylinder two-stroke engine with a displacement of 200 cm³ and 11 hp was mounted in the rear and drove a rear wheel. The transmission had four gears. The design-related maximum speed was specified as 74 km / h. There were also children's vehicles, including a replica of a Ferrari 290 Mille Miglia from 1956 with an electric motor , of which around 10,000 were made.

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 : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 3 P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Web links

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