Editing Zust

{{Short description|Italian car manufacturing company}}
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[[File:Züst_logo.jpg|thumb|Original Zust logo]]
[[File:Zust car, front.jpg|thumb|A 1912 28&nbsp;hp model]]
'''Zust''' (originally '''Züst''') was an Italian car manufacturing company operating from 1905 to 1917.

The company was founded by engineer Roberto Züst, an Italian industrialist of Swiss origin,<ref name="edizione savine2014">{{cite book |author1=Charles Lam Markmann |author2=Mark Sherwin |title=The Book of Sports Cars - (United States and Italy |date=2014 |publisher=Edizioni Savine |isbn=9788896365465 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f5duBAAAQBAJ&q=zust+italian+car+manufacturer |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> who owned a precision tool manufacturing plant at [[Intra, Italy|Intra]], near [[Lago Maggiore]] (formerly the Guller & Croff iron [[foundry]]<ref name="italian tribune">{{cite web |last1=Cavaliere |first1=David |title=Part 13 – Brixia-Zust and Zust |url=http://www.italiantribune.com/part-13-brixia-zust-and-zust/ |website=The Italian Tribune |access-date=27 March 2020 |date=11 May 2016}}</ref>).  Züst experimented with prototypes of cars from around 1900 on and in [[Milan]] in 1905, he founded the Zust company for manufacturing cars and commercial vehicles.<ref name="italian tribune"/>  His first models were huge and expensive machines propelled by four-cylinder engines from 7432 cc (454cuin) to 11308 cc (690cuin). These were joined by a slightly smaller 5-litre (305cuin) model in 1908.<ref name="italian tribune"/> A Zust 28/45 HP participated in the [[1908 New York to Paris Race]]<ref>{{cite news |title=OCEAN MOTOR RACE PLAN OF ITALIANS; Manufacturers Enthusiastic Over Work of Zust Car in Paris Auto Race. BOATS TO CROSS ATLANTIC Race Is Intended as an Exhaustive Test of the Italian Type of Motor Engine. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/22/archives/ocean-motor-race-plan-of-italians-manufacturers-enthusiastic-over.html |access-date=27 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=22 February 1908}}</ref> and finished third.<ref>{{cite web |title=Today in History: The Great New York to Paris Automobile Race Beings |url=https://www.cnyhistory.org/2017/02/great-new-york-paris-automobile-race/ |website=Onondaga Historical Association |access-date=27 March 2020 |date=12 February 2017}}</ref>  [[Giustino Cattaneo]] (later of [[Isotta Fraschini]]) worked for him.

[[Image:ItalianZustRacecar.jpg|thumb|left|The 1906 Züst which took third place in the 1908 Race Around the World.]]
In 1906 Züst decided to also make smaller cars, so with his five sons he founded a new company known as [[Brixia-Zust]] in the city of [[Brescia]]. (Zust and Brixia-Zust are often confused). Due to financial problems, Brixia-Zust closed down in 1912; the Milan factory was sold and production of Zust cars concentrated in Brescia, where production continued until 1914. The last new models, the 15/25 HP or 2S 365 (2592&nbsp;cc/158cuin) and the 25/35 or S305 (4712&nbsp; cc/288cuin), appeared in 1913.

On October 1, 1917, the company was taken over by [[Officine Meccaniche]] of Milan, who continued to make the S305 until 1923 under their own name.
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==Brixia-Zust==
[[File:Fabrica Automobili Brixia-Züst 1906.jpg|thumb|Share of the Fabrica Automobili Brixia-Züst, issued 4. May 1906]]
'''Brixia-Zust''' (originally '''Brixia-Züst''') was an Italian car manufacturer also founded by engineer [[Roberto Züst]], owner of Zust of Milan, and his sons. The company was situated in [[Brescia]], [[Northern Italy]]; Brixia is the antique [[Latin]] for Brescia. The company made racing cars that participated in [[Targa Florio]], an open road race in [[Sicily]].

The most interesting model was the ''10 hp'' in 1909, propelled by a three-cylinder 1495 cc engine. Car production ended&mdash;due to financial difficulties&mdash;in 1912. In 1918, after [[Officine Meccaniche]] took over the Zust company, the Brescia facilities were used.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Züst vehicles}}
* http://www.targaflorio.info/zust.htm {{in lang|it}}
*For Brixia-Zust:
** http://targaflorio.info/brixiazust.htm (in Italian)
** https://web.archive.org/web/20040703151451/http://www.ideahobby.it/DB-Auto/brixia_zust.html (in Italian)

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