AUDAX, l’auto made in Sicily (Italy)
La vettura APIS, prodotta a Palermo agli inizi del Novecento dallo stabilimento meccanico di Eugenio Oliveri, senatore del Regno ed all’epoca già sindaco della città.
L’APIS ebbe breve vita, producendo in tutto una decina di esemplari di automobili; nè miglior successo ebbe l’altra fabbrica di vetture palermitana, l’AUDAX di Vincenzo Pellerito.
The APIS car, produced in Palermo at the beginning of the twentieth century by the mechanical plant of Eugenio Oliveri, senator of the Kingdom and at the time already mayor of the city.
The APIS had a short life, producing in all a dozen examples of cars; nor did the other Palermo car factory, Vincenzo Pellerito’s AUDAX, have better success.
Di queste vetture ‘veteran’ non è rimasta traccia negli annali storici delle automobili italiane a causa dei ridottissimi numeri di produzione: una quindicina di esemplari in tutto.
L’insuccesso dei due marchi fu certo favorito dalla fattura artigianale dei modelli e dalla preferenza accordata dai ricchi palermitani di allora a ben più prestigiosi modelli nazionali e stranieri.
No trace of these ‘veteran’ cars has remained in the historical annals of Italian cars due to the very low production numbers: about fifteen of them in all.
The failure of the two brands was certainly favored by the craftsmanship of the models and by the preference given by the wealthy Palermo people of the time to much more prestigious national and foreign models.
The failure of the two brands was certainly favored by the craftsmanship of the models and by the preference given by the wealthy Palermo people of the time to much more prestigious national and foreign models.
Romano Pisciotti
AUDAX, Italy, Romano Pisciotti, Sicily
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