Don't think it can be ridden BUT it is a Ducati
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Kato
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Their very proud of the company origins in electronic development back in the pre-war period….the museum has a section showing the domestic radios….and also components developed for the “defence “ industry….the Bologna site was extensively bombed because of this.
Yes Borgo Panigale was hit by a raid of B17's in WW2, the irony of which is not lost on me when they have a flypast of the B17 over the Buell and Italian day at East Kirkby.
I think they also had a factory
in Argentina
The bike business branched off the electronics side which is still going, I think as Ducati Electrotecnica. I wonder if the two companies will forge closer ties again with the advent of Ducati's venture into Electric bikes?
Give me a shout please if you see one of these for sale.
I think they also had a factory
in Argentina
The bike business branched off the electronics side which is still going, I think as Ducati Electrotecnica. I wonder if the two companies will forge closer ties again with the advent of Ducati's venture into Electric bikes?
Give me a shout please if you see one of these for sale.
One here;
@ Ducati Sogno Microcamera w. Vitor 3,5/35mm and matching Ducati case - Shutter | eBay
Komplett überprüft. Bei Gebrauchtwaren gilt eine Gewährleistung von 1 Jahr. Used goods. For used goods, a warranty of 1 year applies.
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Might be a bit fruity though...
slob
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Captain Yossarian
I had to google Captain Yossarian, only to find out he is ficticious! The bombing of Bologna however was very real and I took the opportunity to fact check myself.
The RAF and USAF were targeting German marshlling depots and ammunition dumps, but later they launched a massive raid that took the Ducati factory out.
"On October 11, 1944,123 Martin B-26 Marauder bombers of the 12th Air Force dropped 700 bombs on an ammunition depot located inside the city, hitting both the objective and the city itself; 37 buildings were destroyed totally or partially, 21 citizens were killed and 23 wounded. On the following day, 12 October, Bologna suffered the heaviest raid in the entire war: called “Operation Pancake”, this raid was carried out by 698 B-17, B-24 and B-26 bombers of the 12th and 15th Air Forces, which took off from the Foggia airfields and were escorted by 160 Lockheed P-38 Lightning and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. They dropped 1,294 tons of bombs (the heaviest bomb tonnage dropped on an Italian city in a single raid during the entire war) on fuel and ammunition dumps, depots and German troop concentrations located in various places in the city, as well as on the Ducati plant – now engaged in munitions production, it was completely knocked out by this raid –, on the Borgo Panigale airfield and on the bridges on the Reno. The purpose of this raid was to weaken German forces in Bologna and its surroundings in order to support the advance by the Fifth Army, aimed at capturing the city before Christmas. Once again, many of the bombs fell on the entire city; this was the most destructive air raid suffered by Bologna, with 402 buildings completely destroyed and 845 partially destroyed. Estimates of civilian losses vary between three hundred and six hundred"
You can read the full reach of the devastation here.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bologna_in_World_War_II
The RAF and USAF were targeting German marshlling depots and ammunition dumps, but later they launched a massive raid that took the Ducati factory out.
"On October 11, 1944,123 Martin B-26 Marauder bombers of the 12th Air Force dropped 700 bombs on an ammunition depot located inside the city, hitting both the objective and the city itself; 37 buildings were destroyed totally or partially, 21 citizens were killed and 23 wounded. On the following day, 12 October, Bologna suffered the heaviest raid in the entire war: called “Operation Pancake”, this raid was carried out by 698 B-17, B-24 and B-26 bombers of the 12th and 15th Air Forces, which took off from the Foggia airfields and were escorted by 160 Lockheed P-38 Lightning and Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. They dropped 1,294 tons of bombs (the heaviest bomb tonnage dropped on an Italian city in a single raid during the entire war) on fuel and ammunition dumps, depots and German troop concentrations located in various places in the city, as well as on the Ducati plant – now engaged in munitions production, it was completely knocked out by this raid –, on the Borgo Panigale airfield and on the bridges on the Reno. The purpose of this raid was to weaken German forces in Bologna and its surroundings in order to support the advance by the Fifth Army, aimed at capturing the city before Christmas. Once again, many of the bombs fell on the entire city; this was the most destructive air raid suffered by Bologna, with 402 buildings completely destroyed and 845 partially destroyed. Estimates of civilian losses vary between three hundred and six hundred"
You can read the full reach of the devastation here.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Bologna_in_World_War_II
slob
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Catch 22 is set during that campaign. When I visited the Bologna just after an earthquake a few years back, they'd cancelled factory tours in case they had to evacuate the building quickly but the museum was still open, as it's in a part of the building that had been build to be 'bombproof' during WW2.
