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Societa Nebiolo: Genealogy

A brief genealogy of Societa Nebiolo, up to 1930: Societa Nebiolo was established in 1918, and gre out of Societa Augusta, a holding company founded in 1908 as a merger of the older Nebiolo and Urania (est. 1906). Urania in turn was a large foundry in Italy that was formed by joining many smaller foundries between 1903 and 1906, around the same time ATF was formed in the United States by joining many local foundries there, notably P.&F/ Albè (Milan), F. Negroni (Bologna), C. Redaelli (Milan), L. Wilmant (Milan), F. Fiazza (Milan), F. Rizzi (Milan), Cucco&Gariglio (Rome), Alessandri (Florence) and F. Zappa (Milan). It had offices in Milan, Bologna, Rome and Florence. The original Urania foundry in Milan in 1903 evolved from G. Commoretti (est. 1838).

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