Itom (acronym for Industria Torinese Meccanica) was a motorcycle factory founded in Turin (in Via Millio, at number 41), in 1944, and transferred to Sant'Ambrogio di Torino in 1957/58 where it produced motorcycles until the close of 1975. The owner was the lawyer Corrado Corradi.
Itom (acronym for Industria Torinese Meccanica) was a motorcycle factory founded in Turin (in Via Millio, at number 41), in 1944, and transferred to Sant'Ambrogio di Torino in 1957/58 where it produced motorcycles until the close of 1975. The owner was the lawyer Corrado Corradi.
==History== The Itom company began with an association with the bicycle manufacturer Benotto, and started production with a motorised bicycle model called SIRIO, using engines from Officine Meccanica Broglia (OMB), also based in Turin. Soon after, the young engineer Giuseppe Spotto arrived from Sicily. He had been an airplane pilot in the Second World War, and together with Silvano Bonetto, he began to design new engines to be applied to bicycles first mounted on the fork then behind the saddle and finally (beginning with the famous TOURIST model) to be placed between the pedals. In 1953 the Esperia model was launched with a monocoque structure, followed in 1954 by the ASTOR and ASTOR Sport models with 2 and 3 hand-operated gears, and in 1957 the ASTOR Sport Competizione. Finally 1959 saw the launch of the 65 cc TABOR model with 4 gears, first manually operated and then with a pedal preselector positioned under the engine.
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