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unusual facts about ANSALDO


Japanese cruiser Nisshin

She was powered by two vertical triple expansion steam engines made by Ansaldo, with eight cylindrical boilers, driving two screws.


Austen Crehore

He departed Mineola, New York (on Long Island) in an Ansaldo S.V.A. (Ansaldo A.300) and was by far the leader of the first leg of the air race.

Capitani Romani-class cruiser

Cornelio Silla, named after Lucius Cornelius Sulla, built by Ansaldo Genoa, launched 28 June 1941; captured in Genoa by the Germans while fitting out; never completed.

Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto

Twelve anti-aircraft Ansaldo 90/53 guns taken from the Vittorio Veneto were reused by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as armament of its Žirje Island coastal artillery battery.

Luas

Construction work began in March 2001 on the Tallaght to Connolly line, as well as the Sandyford to St. Stephen's Green section of the second line, with Ansaldo of Italy and MVM of Australia getting the contract to build the system.

Peter Bezukladnikov

Managed successful implementation of the first complete overhaul of large gas turbines in Russian power industry, involving experts of Italian company ANSALDO .

Techint

Agostino Rocca, an executive at Ansaldo, Dalmine and Siac (steel and iron industries), and prominent member of the IRI broke with dictator Benito Mussolini after his declaration of the Italian Social Republic over Northern Italy, in 1943, and emigrated to Argentina after World War II.


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