Brixia-Zust was an Italian

Italy

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 car manufacturer founded by engineer Roberto Züst, owner of Zust

Zust

Zust was an Italian car manufacturing company operating from 1905 to 1917.The company was founded by engineer Roberto Züst, an Italian industrialist of Swiss origin, who owned a precision tool manufacturing plant at Intra, near Lago Maggiore...

 company of Milan

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. The affiliated company was situated in Brescia

Brescia

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, Northern Italy

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. (Brixia is the antique Latin

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 for Brescia.) These companies are often confused. The company made racing cars that participated in Targa Florio

Targa Florio

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, an open road race in Sicily

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.

The most interesting model was the 10 hp in 1909, propelled by a three-cylinder 1495 cc engine. Car production ended—due to financial difficulties—in 1912. From 1918, when Officine Meccaniche

Officine Meccaniche

Officine Meccaniche or OM was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company, founded in 1899 in Milan as Societa Anonima Officine Meccaniche...

took over the Zust company, the Brescia facilities were used.

External links

• http://targaflorio.info/brixiazust.htm (in Italian)
• http://ideahobby.it/DB-Auto/brixia_zust.html (in Italian)