Branca
from Magnago, MI (Milano), Lombardia
Felice Branca mechanic to the team Filotex and Franco Bitossi "cuore matto - crazy heart" (due to a cardiac arrhythmia which often compelled him to stop midway in a stage) (171 wins in 16 years)
missed the near victory at the World Championship in Gap, France, where he was beaten by only a few meters by his teammate Marino Basso.
Branca had frames made (in chornological order) by Volta & his brother in law, Giuseppe Pino Pelà, Losa and maybe someoneelse even later
by Losa
(pointed seatstay caps, bottom bracket shell bore holes towards the chainstays, direction/placing of ventilation bore hole on chainstays bridge, attachment of the dropouts, how the right chainstay ist flattened on the inner side towards the dropout as the left one too!!!, cut-outs on the fork crown reinforcement tangs
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brake bridge Masi )