Diatto

Diatto was an Italian car maker founded in 1905 in Turin but its history started 176 years ago. 1835-The year the company is founded. - In 1835, in Turin, on the banks of the river Po, Guglielmo Diatto founds a workshop for the construction of carriages for nobility. - The Diatto “Manifattura di Carrozze” (Carriage Manufacture) is already a large industrial concern, established over a vast area which is owned by the company. - 1838-The first patent. - Guglielmo DIATTO, 33 years old, an inventive and enterprising craftsman, patents a ‘perfected wheel’, the first in a series of technological innovations that would make the fortunes of three generations of industrialists (the patent is held at the National Museum dell’Automobile in Turin,...