Società Italiana Bernardi

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Bernardi from 1894
Enrico Bernardi 1912

The Società Italiana Bernardi was an Italian manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

prehistory

Professor Enrico Bernardi had been working on an internal combustion engine since 1882. The first vehicle was built in 1894. On August 4, 1896, the company Miari, Giusti & Cia was founded in Padua to manufacture automobiles. On May 5, 1899, the company was dissolved.

Società Italiana Bernardi

Bernardi now founded the Società Italiana Bernardi and produced and marketed the vehicles under his own name. When he left the company a little later, the designer Aldo Bibolini took his place. Production ended in 1901.

vehicles

The first 3½ HP model was a tricycle with the single wheel at the rear. The single-cylinder engine with 624 cm³ displacement was mounted in front of the rear wheel in a mid-engine design. The open body offered space for two people. Models with four wheels with 2.5 HP , 4.5 HP and 6 HP power followed later  .

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile 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)
  • Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 1 A – F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)

Web links

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