Topic: Solved ropat#23: Darracq Italiana - Società Italiana Automobili Darracq (SIAD)

[ropat53]

No not Welleyes-Ceirano

[4popoid]

Although I can't find any pictures, I understand that Brasier, of France, had a 6 cyl. engine in 1907.  From about 1906 to 1909 Fides, of Italy, had a license to build Brasier.  Could the puzzle engine be a Fides built Brasier?

[ropat53]

No not Fides or Brasier and they used the same French name but with some Italian words added.

[4popoid]

Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID), later to become A.L.F.A, and still later Alfa-Romeo?

[ropat53]

Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID), later to become A.L.F.A, and still later Alfa-Romeo?

I'll take as correct even though you muddled up the letters and you didn't get the name quite right, it's Società Italiana Automobili Darracq (SIAD)
I quote Wikipedia:
'In 1906 the company expanded to Portello, a Milan suburb in Italy. They established Società Italiana Automobili Darracq (SIAD) through a license arrangement with Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan. The business did not do well and Darracq shut it down in 1910.[5] A new partnership, Anonima Lombardo Fabbrica Automobili (ALFA), acquired the business, which in 1914 was taken over by Nicola Romeo, who created Alfa Romeo'.

[4popoid]

Thanks for the point.  Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) was lifted directly from an on line reference (site provided on request via PM).  I saw that it was different from Wikipedia, and guessed that this one might be more authoritative.  I guessed wrong.