Zagato

Zagato is an Italian coachbuilding company founded by Ugo Zagato in 1919, with its design center in Terrazzano, a village near Rho in Lombardy. Ugo Zagato began his coachbuilding career in 1919 after leaving Officine Aeronautica Pomilio to set up his own business in Milan, intending to bring lightweight construction techniques from aeronautics to cars. In the 1920s he designed bodies for Alfa Romeo models such as the 6C 1500, which won the 1928 Mille Miglia, and the 6C 1750 went on to Mille Miglia victories in 1929 and 1930. Wikipedia reports that Zagato bodies were also built for Bianchi, Fiat, Isotta Fraschini, Lancia, Maserati and OM. His Milan works was destroyed by an RAF raid on 13 August 1943, and after the war he re-established the company at Via Giorgini 16 in Milan.