Speedline
Speedline SpA. was a manufacturer of light alloy wheels from Santa Maria di Sala in Veneto, today it belongs to Ronal and is the premium brand as Speedline Corse .
Mainly sports car companies were supplied under the name Speedline, the wheels were made of aluminum or magnesium. With the purchase of volume manufacturers, other manufacturers such as Volkswagen and Audi were also supplied under their names . In North America the products were marketed under the name Aluminator. In 1995 Speedline Spa merged with Hydromagnesium and founded Hyspeed. At that time, Speedline Spa was the largest manufacturer of light alloy wheels in Europe.
The cooperation began with Porsche on the Porsche 956 racing car , and later a multi-part wheel for series vehicles was also produced.
Individual evidence
- ↑ SPEEDLINE CORSE. Lightweight construction and sportiness. (No longer available online.) RONAL GmbH, archived from the original on November 17, 2011 ; Retrieved October 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Nnamdi Anyadike: aluminum. The Challenges Ahead . Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge 2002, p. 99, ISBN 1-8557-3591-1 (via Googlebooks)
- ^ Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner: The Autocar. A journal published in the interests of the mechanically propelled road carriage , Volume 171 (1987), Iliffe & Sturmey, London, ISSN 0005-092X
