Pomigliano d’Arco

See Alfa Romeo Alfasud and Rudolf Hruška for full context.

Pomigliano d’Arco is a town 15 kilometres from Naples, site of Alfa Romeo’s two distinct southern Italian industrial chapters. Ugo Gobbato established an aeronautical engine manufacturing plant here in the late 1930s; the site was bombed during World War II. The same location was chosen by IRI for the new Alfasud factory, foundation stone laid April 1968 under Rudolf Hruška’s engineering direction. The Alfasud — the first series-production front-wheel-drive Alfa Romeo — was built here from 1972.

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