Ducati Motorcycles
Ducati Motorcycles
In 1926 the Ducati family and other Bolognese investors founded the Società Radio Brevetti Ducati in Bologna to product components for the growing field of radio transmissions, based on Adriano Ducati’s patents. The first product, the Manens condenser for radio equipment, rapidly followed by others, was extremely successful throughout the world, allowing the company to expand by leaps and bounds, and winning it the respect of the international industrial community.
But the Second World War was extremely hard on Ducati: the Borgo Panigale factories were razed to the ground in 1944. Fortunately, the Ducati brothers spent the duration of the war studying and planning new products to be introduced to world markets at the end of the conflict.
In 1946, the Cucciolo appeared: the small auxiliary motor for bicycles destined to become the most famous in the world. In a short time, the Cucciolo became a real miniature motorcycle. Thank to the Cucciolo’s success, and that of its descendants, Ducati became an affirmed trademark in the motorcycle industry.
