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Anzani
Anzani was an engine manufacturer founded by the Italian Alessandro Anzani, which produced proprietary engines for aircraft, cars, boats, and motorcycles in factories in Britain, France, and Italy.
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Overview
From his native Italy, Anzani moved to France where he became involved in cycle racing. He moved on to motor cycles and designed and built a record breaking lightweight engine. In 1907 he set up a small workshop in Paris with three staff and while they were building his engines he designed a hydrofoil powered by one of his engines and propellers.
Aircraft
Anzani supplied an engine to Enrico Forlanini and developed it further into a three-cylinder, air cooled, radial engine, ideal for the new aeroplanes. One of the early engines, the 25hp Anzani 3W, was supplied to Louis Blériot, who used it or his successful crossing of the English Channel in 1909.
New factories
Demand for the engines continued to grow and the original Paris workshop was replaced by a new factory at Courbevoie, Paris, and one in London was also added as well as licenced production by other makers. Another factory at Monza, Italy was added in 1914.
Sale of factories
On his 50th birthday in 1927 Anzani decided to sell his factories in Paris and London keeping only the Monza works for sentimental reasons, and managed by Natale Baccanti.
British Anzani
In the UK, British Anzani outsourced the manufacture of their engines to Coventry Ordnance Works Ltd. In the 1920s it was refinanced as British Vulpine Engine Company and then again as British Anzani Engineering Company concentrating on small engines and car and motorcycle powerplants.
External links
- Alessandro Anzani and the founding of the company
- a comprehensive history of British Anzani
- commercial site
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