Prinetti & Stucchi
was an Italian maker of sewing machines,
bicycles and motorized vehicles, established in
Milano in 1883. It was owned by engineers and politicians
Augusto Stucchi and
Giulio Prinetti

Giulio Prinetti

Giulio Nicolò Marchese Prinettiwas an Italian businessman and politician from Milan.He was the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Giuseppe Zanardelli'speriod between 1901 and 1903, and...

 (1851–1908).

Except for bicycle

Bicycle

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s, their fame starts in 1898 with the
crafting of motored tricycle

Tricycle

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s and quadricycle

Quadricycle

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s,
employing the milanese Ettore Bugatti

Ettore Bugatti

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 to create the
Tipo 1, a motorized tricycle utilizing two
De Dion

De Dion

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 engines and a Rochet-Schneider

Rochet-Schneider

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 frame. Mr. Bugatti
also participated in the Targa Rignano

Targa Rignano

The Padova - Bovolenta race was an automobile, voiturette and motorcycle race. The first day had a straight race speedrecord track between the cities of Padova and Bovolenta in Italy, followed by a race in Padova the next day. The name Targa Rignano was only used in the years 1902, 1903 and...

 in a quadricycle (1900).

In 1901 the company was named Stucchi & Co., as Giulio Prinetti left to become
Italian minister of foreign affairs

Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs

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 1901-03.
The reconstruction also caused Ettore Bugatti to leave, emigrating to France where
he established the Bugatti

Bugatti

Automobiles E. Bugatti was a French car manufacturer founded in 1909 in Molsheim, Alsace, as a manufacturer of high-performance automobiles by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti....

 carmaker and immediately created the Bugatti Type 1

Bugatti Type 1

The Type 1 was an automobile designed by Ettore Bugatti and produced by Prinetti & Stucchi in 1899. It had four engines, two on each side of the rear axle. The first real production Bugatti was the Bugatti Type 13.- External links :*...

prototype.

Its automobile production stopped in
1906.
The Stucchi-Prinetti family
founded the Società Generale Elettrica dell'Adamello electric company (1907).
Also, it
is the owner of the
Badia a Coltibuono castle in Tuscany

Tuscany

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.