It will be interesting to read what others have to contribute to this thread, most especially if they can do so with verifiable authority. That said, my own "understanding" (...for which I can only offer hearsay, rumor, speculation, and absolutely nothing in the way of incontrovertible proof) is that Magistroni ultimately did indeed become OFMEGA (...or OFficine MEcchaniche GiostrA). Whether this was the result of them simply changing their corporate name, or due to the fact that they were absorbed, or because OFMEGA was an amalgamation of Magistroni along with one or more other brand(s), I have absolutely no idea. At the risk of inciting editorial rebuke from those who are too thin-skinned, it strikes me that much of both Italian corporate and post World War II political history is about as intriguing and easily deciphered as the original Ponzi scheme (...although I suppose that the same might also be said of the French, at least with respect to their once proud and prolific cycling industry).
Robert "equal opportunity impugner" Broderick ...the "no so Frozen this year Flatlands" of South Dakota Sioux Falls, USA
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>From: "Tom Hayes" <hayesbikes@gmail.com>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Magistroni questions
>Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:37:14 -0600
>
>I have a bike that had a Magistroni crank, well, actually two, and the
>quesiton is related to each. As I understand it, though I am not writing
>that is the way in which it is, Magistroni was a manufacturing name or a
>brand of an Italian company called, Officine Mecchaniche Giostra. Both of
>these cottered cranks came with spindles marked O.M.G. One of the bottom
>brackets also has a lockring which clearly has "Ofmega" spelled out around
>the serrations at the edge.
>
>My questions are these then: is the O.M.G. spindle a Magistroni one, and in
>particular, the one that has "Ofmega" marked on it, was Ofmega another
>Officine Mecchaniche Giostra brand? The Ofmega and O.M.G appearing closely
>related or at least a seeming cognate of the company..
>
>Once again thank you.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Tom Hayes
>Chagrin Falls, Ohio USA