On 15 march 1921, the company “Società Anonima Moto Guzzi” was created in the offices of the notary Paolo Cassanello in Corso Aurelio Saffi, Genoa, for “the fabrication and sale of motorcycles, and all other activities pertinent or correlated to the metalworking and mechanical engineering industries”. The company’s first motorcycle was the legendary 8 HP Normale. In 2017, Moto Guzzi celebrated fifty years since the birth of that first model.