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==Other production== [[File:Locomotiva E333-006 ad Acqui Terme.png|thumb|right|Locomotive FS E.333 built by Ing. Nicola Romeo e Co. in [[Saronno]]]] Although Alfa Romeo is best known as automobile manufacturer it has also produced commercial vehicles of various size, railway locomotives,<ref name="Story of the Alfa Romeo factory" /> tractors, buses, trams, compressors, generators, an electric cooker,<ref>http://forum.clubalfa.it/attachment.php?attachmentid=39226&d=1254043793 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328212504/http://forum.clubalfa.it/attachment.php?attachmentid=39226&d=1254043793 |date=28 March 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8391/0580001.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328211200/http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/8391/0580001.jpg |archive-date=28 March 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/8242/dsc00846u.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328212852/http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/8242/dsc00846u.jpg |archive-date=28 March 2014 }}[http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/attachments/alfa-romeo-history/32112d1140897816-alfa-romeo-crosti-alfa-romeo-kitchen-stove-.jpg Made after the WWII in about 500 examples]</ref> marine and aircraft engines. ===Aircraft engines=== {{See also|Alfa Romeo Avio}} [[File:Alfa Romeo D2C 30.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Alfa Romeo D2|D2]] aircraft engine]] An Alfa engine was first used on an aircraft in 1910 on the Santoni-Franchini biplane.<ref name="borg">{{Cite book| author=Borgeson, Griffith | title=The Alfa Romeo Tradition | year=1990 | publisher=Haynes | isbn=0-85429-875-4 }}</ref> In 1932 Alfa Romeo built its first real aircraft engine, the D2 (240 bhp), fitted to [[Caproni Ca.101|Caproni 101 D2]]. In the 1930s when Alfa Romeo engines were used for aircraft on a larger scale; the [[Savoia-Marchetti S.74|Savoia Marchetti SM.74]], [[Savoia-Marchetti SM.75]], [[Savoia-Marchetti SM.79]], [[Savoia-Marchetti SM.81|Savoia Marchetti SM.81]] and [[CANT Z.506|Cant Z506B Airone]] all used Alfa Romeo manufactured engines.<ref name="aerei-italiani.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.aerei-italiani.net/Marco_Rigoni/Alfa%20Romeo_Album%20Modelli%20Aerei_Nov.05.pdf|title=Alfa Romeo AEREI Collezione Modelli di Marco Rigoni Settembre 2005|access-date=25 April 2007|work=aerei-italiani.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605150251/http://www.aerei-italiani.net/Marco_Rigoni/Alfa%20Romeo_Album%20Modelli%20Aerei_Nov.05.pdf|archive-date=5 June 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1931, a competition was arranged where [[Tazio Nuvolari]] drove his [[Alfa Romeo 8C]] 3000 Monza against a [[Caproni Ca.100]] airplane.<ref name="digilander.libero.it 2">{{cite web|url=http://digilander.libero.it/air10/f104/sfide_f1.htm|title=La storia di due "duelli" inconsueti avvenuti a 50 anni di distanza l'uno dall'altro|access-date=25 April 2007|work=digilander.libero.it| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070427205202/http://digilander.libero.it/air10/f104/sfide_f1.htm| archive-date= 27 April 2007 | url-status= live|language=it}}</ref> Alfa Romeo built various aircraft engines during the [[Second World War]]; the best known was the RA.1000 RC 41-I Monsone, a licensed version of the [[Daimler-Benz DB 601]]. This engine made it possible to build efficient fighter aircraft like the [[Macchi C.202 Folgore]] for the Italian army. After the Second World War Alfa Romeo produced engines for Fiat, [[Aerfer]] and [[Ambrosini (aircraft manufacturer)|Ambrosini]]. In the 1960s Alfa Romeo mainly focused upgrading and maintaining [[Curtiss-Wright]], [[Pratt & Whitney]], [[Rolls-Royce Limited|Rolls-Royce]] and [[General Electric]] aircraft engines. Alfa Romeo also built Italy's first [[turboprop|turbine engine]], installed to the [[Beechcraft King Air]]. Alfa Romeo's Avio division was sold to [[Aeritalia]] in 1988,<ref name="channel4">{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/4car/ft/feature/retrospective/5654/1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104213019/http://www.channel4.com/4car/ft/feature/retrospective/5654/1 |archive-date=4 January 2009|title=Retrospective: Automobiles and aeroplanes: Alfa Romeo|access-date=7 June 2012|publisher=Channel 4}}</ref> from 1996 it was part of Fiat Avio.<ref name="madeinfiat.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.madeinfiat.com/oct96/newsc.htm|title=FiatAvio acquires Alfa Romeo Avio|access-date=20 August 2007|work=madeinfiat.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231131/http://www.madeinfiat.com/oct96/newsc.htm|archive-date=27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Alfa Avio was also part of developing team to the new T700-T6E1 engine to the [[NHI NH90]] helicopter.<ref name="janes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Helicopter-Markets-and-Systems/Alfa-Romeo-Avio-Italy.html|title=Alfa Romeo Avio (Italy), Buyer's Guide Engine Manufacturers|access-date=23 December 2008|work=janes.com}}</ref> ===Marine engines=== Alfa Romeo also produced marine engines. The first marine engine was produced in 1929. Later, for three consecutive years: 1937-1938-1939 with remarkable affirmations, Alfa Romeo demonstrated its constructive efficiency by contributing to the development of marine engines. * (1938) 12 cyl (4.500) 121,710 km/h ===Aero-engines=== * [[Alfa Romeo D2]] * [[Alfa Romeo 110]] * [[Alfa Romeo 115]] * [[Alfa Romeo 121]] * [[Alfa Romeo 125]] * [[Alfa Romeo 126]] * [[Alfa Romeo 128]] * [[Alfa Romeo 135]] * [[Alfa Romeo Lynx]] * [[Alfa Romeo Mercurius]] * [[Alfa Romeo RA.1000]] * [[Alfa Romeo RA-1050]] * [[Alfa Romeo R.C.10]] * [[Alfa Romeo R.C.34]] * [[Alfa Romeo R.C.35]] * [[Alfa Romeo AR.318]]
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