steel part ∞

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continuation from tonight

stumbled on this looking up Detto shoes, so

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oben ... vid

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from Laserman

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sante, /


http://www.wheelsofitaly.com/wiki/index.php?title=Gilco



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Looking for possibilities to expand his fathers tube-manufacturing business (used extensively in the bicycle industry) Gilberto Colombo moved into the automotive chassis business, becoming famous for the light weight and strength of his products which used circular or elliptic section tubes welded together. One of his first customers was Ferrari, who used chassis' from Gilco in many of their cars (including the 125, 166, 212S, 340 Mexico, 250MM, 500S, 250GT and some F1 cars). Other car companies followed, including Cisitalia, Fiat, Stanguellini, Osca, Giannini, Alfa Romeo, Zagato, Maserati (various A6, 150S, 200S and others) and Nardi.
Gilco also construced a very small number of their own cars, and also built chassis' for private customers, mainly in the 750 and 1100 Sport categories, who used mechanicals and engines from various sources, often the ubiquitous Fiat 1100. Source


1947 Ferrari 125 Gilco sub frame
Carrozzeria Riva from Merate (Como) was in its existence not always busy with build of cars. It was the journalist and coureur Giovannino Lurani Cernuschi that its vehicle park wanted to maintain through Riva and Riva sometimes the task gave a risk to build, as for instance the 'Nibbio' record car from 1935. On basis of a Gilco-Cattaneo chassis on the order of Lurani were built also a number of Alfas. The Gilco-Cattaneo pipe frame had been designed by the engineer Guido Cattaneo in cooperation with the specialized firm Gilco, that also supplier was by pipe frames for the first Ferrari's. Cattaneo had yet a number Alfa 2500 SS motors lie from for the war and built these on the Gilco-Cattaneo chassis. A number of this Alpha Romeo-Cattaneo' s became voozien of a carrosserie of Colli, but also Riva has one or two specimens built to a design of Lurani. After this period, Riva stops with the producing of cars to own correct and holds self mainly busy with the repairing and convert of existing carrosserias.

History Time line



Source
1919 Angelo Luigi Colombo is in Milan, in Via Stradella, society AL Colombo: This workshop is produced initially in an artisan metal pipes intended in particular to the frames of the bicycles.
1921 Born Gilberto Colombo, the second son of Angelo.
1928 The A.L. Columbus moved the production plant in the great way Tanzi. And 'now specializes in steel tubes and precision stainless steel for aviation, and bicycle frames. But under the brand name Columbus also produces and sells furniture in the steel tube: in the next decade there will among the major producers of mobile rationalists, drafted by Piero Bottoni and, under license, by Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe.
1930 A.L. Colombo realizes, under the brand name Columbus, a special series of stainless steel tubes chrome-molybdenum for frames of bicycles from the competition. The series, consisting of twelve pieces, tubes in high-strength concrete is reinforced, and a thick conical biconico, obtains success in competitions Columbus gaining brand recognition in the international sporting world.
1938 At only 17 years Gilberto Colombo began working with his father for the development of facilities and the construction of special tapered tubes used in aircraft engines. It also of the production of pipes and reinforced the individual components of the series Columbus.
1940 By attending the first years of Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Gilberto Colombo knows Mario Speluzzi, professor and director of motor sports in the technical, begins to love the design issues in this field. Not yet twenties, designs and builds the house of a family Lierna on Lake Como, in the same period, sailing enthusiast, bought his first Star by Baglietto yards.
1946 In 1946 Gilberto knows Colombo Enzo Ferrari in Modena and begins to apply to the design of its sports cars, in a report that will remain tight collaboration of professional until 1956, and in personal terms remain alive throughout their lives. While it is technical director of A.L. Colombo, Gilberto start in the business of their own design and production of auto chassis, making the production of the father. Inside the A.L. Colombo creates a department called GC automotive applications.
1947 While the GC is continuing its testing activities in 1947 was founded the company GILCO, which is beginning to produce cars with chassis tubes acquired by AT Colombo. The first frame GILCO is made for a reworking of the Maserati Formula 1 racing team of brothers Milan Ruggeri. In May, the Ferrari sporting activity begins with the 125th In autumn begins to run the more powerful 159. In subsequent years following this GILCO growth of activities with quarterly orders for the production of 25-30 frames, with delivery times of about fifteen days for the frame.


Formula 1 frame built for Ferrari
1955 A serious accident at the 24 hours of Le Mans, which causes racing to stop for six months, cause problems all over the field of sports cars. The activity of Gilberto Colombo is being increasingly from manufacturing to design.
1958 While the GILCO reduce progressively the production linked to the chassis of the car in competition, Gilberto Colombo continues its work as technical director in the AL Colombo. In the meantime, the idea spread with the frames of the first post-war have now given birth to a new capacity: many developers are in an area that until recently was virtually a monopoly.
1961 Designed by Gilberto Colombo is completed the construction of a second family home in Lierna, the house on the water.
1965 II thirteen-year-old son of Gilberto Colombo, Mark, participate in the first races on the lake with the Star of his father, racing in pairs with David Sigurtà. Here arises the idea of improving the hull of this class building a sample hand.
1966 In 1966 Gilberto Colombo acquires Trafiltubi of Novegro, near Milan, specializing in the production tubes for bicycles, motorcycles and cars. GILCO and Trafiltubi together constitute a special section for the design and testing of steel tubes for high quality, round and with special profiles, designed for more sophisticated applications.
During the same period Gilberto Colombo active Lierna a small boat yard in what will be built "Roberta," the first boat he designed in the Star class. The site will continue its activities until 1975, producing about twenty boats.
1972 Robert II, with crew Mark and David Colombo Sigurtà, won the second place in the Italian championship. The following year he conquered the first place instead.
1975 Robert III, with crew Mark and David Colombo Sigurtà, he won the Italian championship.
1982 For almost the entire decade of the eighties Gilberto Colombo continues to work on design nautica. Among the international statements of boats were born on the project and its development, those of Fools Star yards and Lillia. Among these, the first victory of the World Cup awarded in 1980 by Antonio Gorostegui hull with a Star of Fools.
1983 Trafiltubi GILCO and continue in their cooperation. Gilberto Colombo began designing frames for racing bikes and records. Trafiltubi born within the SAR (Special Applications Division), which produces pipes for frames. In recent years Trafiltubi develop the production, which will provide the best long-Case producing high-end bicycles.
1984 The production of pipes for the frame bicycle for Colnago Master, with four ribs longitudinal stiffness. Meanwhile Gilberto and his son Marco begin studies for the application of technology Trafiltubi tubes for lamps. Trafiltubi producing the special tubes used in the lamp Dove, designed by Marco Colombo in collaboration with M. Barbaglia, very thin but high-strength, besides being of tenants' power.
1985 Studies of Gilberto Colombo to design a bike frame to record oriented approach centered on the rear wheel and lower the position of the handlebars and also to differentiate the section of pipe to ensure lighter. This will bring about the laser project, which will then be made by Cinelli. The studies for the use of tubes in different section in the lead frame MultiShape to Columbus, and the Master tube is used for the frame of a bicycle track. Where the exit: a lamp that will soon become a cult object of the design of those years, with continued success will remain in continuous production since then until now (currently produced by Cassina).
1986 Ten of the first eleven places of the world championships are won Star class boats built by the shipyard and Lillia Folli.
1987 Master the tube is used for the construction of a frame Dual diagonal split.
1988 Gilberto Colombo died just 67 years. Trafiltubi within the tradition of GILCO is meanwhile carefully collected and cataloged in a strictly Historical Archive, whose direction and care are being provided Martino Colombo (enthusiastic "pupil" of Gilberto and cousin Marco Colombo).
1991 Laser cycling is awarded the Golden Compass.
1993 The Historical Archive GILCO promote an exhibition at the European Institute of Design in Milan and held the post of Colombo Gilberto presenting original drawings and prototypes.
1997 In 1997 Trafiltubi obtain quality certification ISO 9000. In recent years, and until 2003, Trafiltubi continues its work guided by the first company workers storiche, then under the supervision of consultants. The policy promoted temporarily put into the background of its original vocation for specialty and high technology, focusing instead aims to increase production quantity.
2003 Trafiltubi obtain quality certification VISION 2000
2004 Marco Colombo (who with Serena Omodeo work already at the University of Architecture Associate), enters into a company with Serena Omodeo taking with her the full management of Trafiltubi. Together launch a new production policy geared to the recovery and enhancement of the historical tradition of the company. Is relaunched the activities of the SAR is born and Gilcootubi, a section which, referring to the traditional design of GILCO, experienced special materials for new applications. It also start testing for new treatments of special materials typical Trafiltubi (as on 15 CDV6) and for drawing up new materials not available in the form of profiles, such as special stainless APX4 and Nanoflex.
2005 At the 2005 World Fair in Paris dell'Aeronautica are presented, in addition to special sections Trafiltubi in 15 CDV6, the first pipes in a special section APX4 born from research GILCO in Trafiltubi. It also initiated the process to approve Trafiltubi according to the strict parameters ASNA. Cycle to the Fair of Milan in 2005 is presented the evolution of the chassis Multishape in 15 CDV6 and the first complete set of tubes in different section APX4 and the frame APX4. Dell'approssimarsi In view of the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of GILCO is established the prize GILCO.
2006 40th anniversary Trafiltubi.
2007 60th anniversary GILCO. Source\

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(1ª Parte), El documental RTVEes A la Carta[1]/ vid 52 min.

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continuation from this morning / above / post

http://www.trafiltubi.com/doc/eng/chisiamo2.htm

Trafiltubi history
TRAFILTUBI's life began in 1919, when Angelo Colombo founded a workshop for the production of pipes that was to become the A.L. COLOMBO company, specialising in precision steel tubes.

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In the Twenties and Thirties, with the Columbus label, the company becomes one of the most important Italian producers of rationalist furniture made to design by architects like Bottoni, Breuer, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe; in the meantime the production of pipes in manganese chrome and Molybdenum chrome steel for the aeronautical industry, continues.



n the racing sector, the bicycles created with their frames achieve success and this quickly brings international renown to the Columbus label.
At the end of the Thirties, during his early years at the Engineering Faculty, Gilberto Colombo, Angelo's son, concentrates on his research into the technical specifications of special steel pipes: it is here that he was to consolidate his projectual passion that would develop with increasing success the potential of special pipes to the most varied of applications.

In 1946, the GILCO label was founded (by GILberto and COlombo), that was to distinguish all his projects, and with this label, Gilberto created a re-elaboration of the The Maserati Formula 1 for the Ruggeri Brother's Milan Racing Team.

In the same year, with a meeting between Gilberto Colombo and Enzo Ferrari, a long lasting collaboration for the design of sports cars begins. In fact, when Enzo Ferrari decided to go it alone and build cars that would bear his name, he called in Gilberto Colombo for the design and production of the frames; he created a frame for a Formula One car with section pipes that were oval, rigid and lightweight all at the same time. From this project stemmed the 125 frame designed by Gioachino Colombo, a 12 cylinder 1500 HP with spring suspension, houdaille shock absorbers, to which the new frame would owe its lightweightness: in fact, the car weighed only 650kg as opposed to the 720kg of the Maserati 2000. In the same year, with Cortese, the 125 won its first competition on the Caracalla track in Rome. The Gilco and the Ferrari, therefore, were created together, and the FERRARI started racing in 1947, with the Gilco frames, that as late as 1955 were being commissioned on a three monthly basis to the order of 25-30 pieces, with an average delivery time of 15 days, for the Ferrari team cars that, for many years, were raced by drivers like Fangio, Ascari, Villoresi.

One of Enzo Ferrari and Gilberto Colombo's acknowledgements was a trophy with a small horse and a bronze plaque with the writing "To Gilco with gratitude", created in thanks and in commemoration of the World Championship victory in 1953.



In the Fifties-Sixties, however, Gilberto Colombo also started taking an interest in sailing boats, to the extend that in 1966 he set up a small boatyard in Lierna on Lake Como where he produced around twenty crafts designed by him. These included the Star Roberta II and Roberta III, with which Marco Colombo, Gilberto's son, would later compete, winning the Italian championships four times, when he took first place in 1973 and 1975. Colombo also designed the Stars from the Folli and Lillia Boatyards, one of which played a key role in the 1982 World Championships. In 1986, ten of the eleven places in the world championships were won by boats from the Folli and Lillia boatyards designed by Gilberto Colombo.

In 1966, Gilberto Colombo rendered his laboratory, that had always operated within the channel of its father company, autonomous: like a rib from the A.L. COLOMBO, TRAFILTUBI was finally founded and transferred its work to the headquarters in Novegro where it is still operational today. From then onwards, the company continued along the road it had always followed, searching from ever greater specialisation in the production of special profiles, designed for the most sophisticated applications.



It is within this framework that the exclusive agreement was signed in 1986 with the prestigious French steelworks, Aubert & Duval, to develop the technology for the production of drawn pipes in Italy "starting exclusively from the Aubert & Duval steels in the special nuances for the Aeronautical, Car, Motorbike and Bicycle Industry".

http://www.trafiltubi.com/ima/TT/AubertDuval_L.jpg

Among these nuances, particularly reference is made to the famous special SCV steel, otherwise known as 15CDV6, whose treatment Trafiltubi became the indisputable leader of, producing top performance drawn pipes.

In the Eighties, Gilberto Colombo once again became interested in the design of frames for racing bicycles, and this is how he created inventions that revolutionised the concept of the bicycle itself.
Patent no. 203553 is his invention: "Part for the stable connection of tubular components with different angles from each other".

Patent no. 203593 is his invention: "Series of tubular components with differentiated profile sections for the construction of bicycle frames".



It was during these years and on request by Ernesto Colnago, that Gilberto created the famous "star-shaped" S/4 profile that would see the creation of the legendary Master frame.



Some of Gilberto Colombo's most famous projects over the years:

Apart from the first MASTER frame with star-shaped section (produced in 1983 by Colnago), there was the Master Pista (in 1985) and the Master Dual (an idea that in 1987 Colnago would later develop to create the Carbitubo series, with double carbon fibre pipe).

This original Gilco project was the inspiration for the design of thefamous T40 Gilco 2006/2007 frame.

For Columbus, the series for the Multishape frame, created from a project in 1986 and produced by Columbus in 1989.

For Cinelli, the Laser from 1985, that in 1991, after the death of Gilberto, would win the Compasso d'Oro.



With inventions as the foundation of these historical projects, Gilberto introduces innovations to the concept of the bicycle itself that would greatly contribute to establishing the Italian labels around the world, and legendary cycling products such as the Colnago bicycle.

The technical importance of its projects, created with TRAFILTUBI technology, is confirmed by the fact that even today, long after they have been overtaken by others, they are still appreciated and used in the production of bicycles that still represent the highest quality regarding the use of steel in the field of racing bicycles.

In the meantime, Gilberto's son, Marco Colombo, starts working as an architect with an independent Firm and, following in his father's footsteps, not only dedicates his time to architecture but also to industrial design, carefully analysing projectual opportunities that can stem from the family business's special profiles. In 1985, in fact, his first project, the DOVE lamp, (from "dove", English for "colomba"), used special thin TRAFILTUBI pipes that acted as conductors to give the lamp the exclusive design that made it famous throughout the world.



This is followed by a long series of creations that have established the Firm's work in the field of design and architecture.
From 2004 onwards, Marco Colombo personally takes over the running of the company, along side his work as architect and together with Serena Omodeo (also his partner in the Architecture's Firm), with the common goal of steering the company's policy towards maximum evaluation of its original vocation: innovation, quality and high technology for highly demanding niches.
At Trafiltubi, the GILCODESIGN laboratory is the centre of research and historical archive that is still trustee of the Gilco label and heir to Gilberto Colombo's projectual heritage.

(1ª Parte), El documental RTVEes A la Carta[1]/ vid 52 min.

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Gilco & carbon

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Sante, stunning, yes



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paris / builder vid ...

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let's do Full Circle, and travel back to where it all began / shall we

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RCR



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SuperFurryAnimals RunChristianRun

Rapture
Waiting to capture that moment
Postponement
Suspension of rational movement

And bang on the hour of twelve
To a forest clearing we'll delve
With guns to our heads
For we know
That Heaven awaits us

Dreaming of that perfect home by the Sun
Run! Christian, Run!

Roaming
Roaming from all tribulation

Leaving
Leaving behind all damnation

With women and children in line
The men will then gather behind
With knives to their throats
They'll depart on the midnight train to Jordan.

Still dreaming of that perfect home by the Sun
Run! Christian, Run!

Still wishing for that perfect home by the Sun
Come! Kingdom, Come!

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"Orpheo Looks Back" Redux

And there are places we must go to
To bring these hollow words on back from
You must cross a muddy river
Where love turns to love turns to fear
They say you don't look
There's only one way
On back from on back from here
They say you don't look
They say you don't look cause it'll disappear



And our eyes they keep on strainin'
As if to see what lies behind them
Through the shells of empty buildings and great columns of glass
They say you don't look
They say you don't look
Cause it'll drive you mad
And if it drives you mad
If it drives you mad
It'll prob'ly pass

[toytech]

a couple vintage Masi's in as found full of patina condition.
http://s25.photobucket.com/user/toyt...slideshow/MASI

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ooh la la , toytech

pf - meddled full album



slow, vibrant, crushing guitar licks ...

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pf - meddled full album

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pardon' alu below:










Sad eyes, sad eyes
Where're you going with that confidence?
Sad eyes, sad eyes
Where're you going with that confidence?

I'm going to where the boats go by
Caledonia river flow so wide
I'm going to where the boats go by
Caledonia river flow so wide

Still water - Laying over
Still water - Laying over
Still water - Laying over
Caledonia river oh, so wide

Wild eyes in the wilderness
Where're you going with the devil in hand?
Wild eyes in the wilderness
Where're you going with the devil in hand?

I'm going to build the bridges high
for working money, for working money
I'm going to climb the bridges high
Caledonia brother far away

Still water - I'm laying over
Still water - Lay my body down over
Still water - Laying over
Caledonia river far away...

Sad eyes in the weary night
Have you seen your brother,
have you seen your brother?

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/still_wat...el_lanois.html
All about Daniel Lanois: http://www.musictory.com/music/Daniel+Lanois

stillWater / below

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Lost in my mind



the head and the heart


How's that bricklayin' comin'?
How's your engine runnin'?
Is that bridge gettin' built?
Are your hands gettin' filled?
Won't you tell me, my brother?

'Cause there are stars
Up above

We can start
Moving forward


lynkBelow/

[AgilisMerlin]

Oh, the wind blows cold
On the trail of the buffalo
Oh, the wind blows cold
In the land of the Navajo
In the land of the Navajo

A hundred miles from nowhere out on the desert sand
One-eyed Jack, the trader, held some torquoise in his hand
By his side sat Running Elk, his long-time Indian friend
He vowed that he would stay by Jack until the bitter end

Jack had gambled everything he owned to lead this wandering life
He might have had a happy home and a tender loving wife
But his hunger was for trading trapper's furs for torquoise stone
Anything that the Indians had, Jack wanted for his own


Said Jack to Running Elk, I'll gamble all my precious stones
Before I leave my body here among these bleaching bones
But now my time is drawing near and I'm filled with dark regret
My spirit longs to journey as the sun begins to set

For we raped and killed, we stole your land, we ruled with guns and knives
Fed whiskey to your warriors while we stole away your wives
Said Running Elk, what's done is done, you white men rule this land
So lay the cards face up and play your last broken-hearted hand


When you're dealing cards with death, the joker's wild, the ace is high
Jack bid the Mississippi River, Running Elk raised him the sky
Jack saw him with the sun and moon and upped him with the stars
Running Elk bet the Rocky Mountains, Jupiter, and Mars

The sun was sinking in the west when Jack drew the ace of spades
Running Elk just rolled his eyes, he smiled and passed away
Jack picked up his torquoise stones and cast them to the sky
He stared into the setting sun and then made a mournful cry


In the land of the Navajo




old&intheway / land of the Navajo

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pardon, had to add this - tonight

tony rice / / gordon Lightfoot cover




Now the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
The lake, it is said, never gives up the dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy
With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more
Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

The ship was the pride of the American side
Coming back from the mill in Wisconsin
As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most
With a crew and good captain well seasoned
Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms
When they left fully loaded for Cleveland
Then later that night when the ship's bell rang
Could it be the north wind they'd been feelin'?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound
And the wave broke over the railing
And every man knew, as the captain did too
'Twas the witch of November come stealin'
The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait
When the gales of November came slashin'
When afternoon came it was freezing rain
In the face of a hurricane west wind

When suppertime came, the old cook come on deck
Sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya"
At seven PM a main hatchway caved in
He said, "Fellas, it's been good to know ya"
The captain wired in he had water comin' in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
If they'd put fifteen more miles behind her
They might have split up or they might have capsized
They might have broke deep and took water
And all that remains is the faces and the names
Of the wives and the sons and the daughters

Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
In the rooms of her ice-water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
The islands and bays are for sportsmen
And farther below, Lake Ontario
Takes in what Lake Erie can send her
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the gales of November remembered

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
In the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
The church bell it chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up the dead
When the gales of November come early