Mondial (motorcycle manufacturer) Mondial (motorcycle manufacturer) FB Mondial is a motorcycle manufacturer, founded in 1929, in Milan, Italy. They are best known for their domination of Motorcycle World Championships between 1949 and 1957. The firm produced some of the most advanced and successful Grand Prix road racers of the time, winning five rider and five manufacturer World Championships in that short period. FB Mondial was born under the impulse of the Boselli brothers Luigi, Carlo, Ettore and Ada. FB stands for "Fratelli Boselli" (. Father of the entrepreneurial brothers was Giuseppe Boselli, a well-respected pilot and co-owner of , a legendary motorcycle company
Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company The Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company (German: "k. k. privilegierte österreichische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft"), from 1 January 1883 the Privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company ("privilegierte österreichisch-ungarische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft") was a private railway company in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its title was abbreviated to State Railway Company ("Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft") or StEG. The StEG was founded on 17 October 1854 primarily with French capital and on 1 January 1855 bought the Northern State Railway and the Austrian Southeastern Railway from the Austrian state, Hence the unusual name of the new company. By procuring the Vienna–Raab railway on 13