| Part of the Fiat Group since the mid eighties, the | | | | the car parts still in the company's possession, |
| Italian Alfa Romeo Car Company was created in 1910 | | | | enough to produce well over one hundred cars. |
| in Milan. Originally the Societa Anonima Italiana Darracq | | | | Romeo changed the company name to Alfa Romeo |
| (SAID) company, the group was first founded in | | | | in 1920, with new cars displaying the new badges. |
| 1906 and was located in Naples. Behind the group | | | | Producing many successful road and racing cars, Alfa |
| was the French Alexandre Darracq firm, and Italian | | | | Romeo retained Giuseppe Merosi as the head |
| investors, with Alexandre Darracq later deciding to | | | | designer. |
| move the company to Milan, where a new eight | | | | Giuseppe Merosi was replace as the chief designer at |
| thousand square yard factory was created to house | | | | Alfa Romeo by Vittorio Jano, a previous Fiat |
| the new automobile company. One of the Italian | | | | designer, who was persuaded to move over to the |
| investors, the aristocrat Ugo Stella, decided to form | | | | Alfa Romeo by Enzo Ferrari, the Alfa Romeo racing |
| the new A.L.A.F Company due to lagging sales of the | | | | driver. Penning the designs for the winning grand prix |
| Italian Darracq cars. | | | | world championship cars in 1925, and designing a run |
| Hiring the designer Giuseppe Merosi to design the | | | | of successful medium sized production cars, saw |
| new A.L.F.A cars proved a success, with the first car | | | | Vittorio Jano designs as quick, powerful and well |
| being a 1910 24 HP. The car was raced in the Targa | | | | engineered cars. |
| Florio in 1911, driven by Franchini and Ronzoni. The | | | | Falling to financial free fall after the war contracts |
| production of cars by the A.L.F.A and Darracq | | | | had ended, Nicola Romeo parted with the company, |
| partnership ceased for three years shortly after, with | | | | leaving the government to intervene in the market |
| the start of World War One present. Nicola Romeo, | | | | place to save the manufacture. The company |
| the Neapolitan entrepreneur, began to direct the | | | | continued to make high end exotic cars for wealthy |
| company in 1915, producing various components for | | | | clientele. World War Two saw the factory bombed, |
| the Italian military. Profiting from the production of | | | | shattering the company's finances, which resulted in |
| war hardware, Romeo ploughed his money back into | | | | Alfa Romeo in desperate times, unable to produce a |
| his company portfolio after the war had finished, | | | | company profit. The time for mass production of |
| adding various railroad carriage plants. Although | | | | smaller and less luxurious cars was on the cards, |
| Romeo has less interest in producing cars, the | | | | seeing the introduction of the Giuliette series of cars. |
| company began to produce automobiles again due to | | | | |