MOTORSPORT TRIVIA - Q30 & 31

Q30. What company built the first Ferrari cars?

Q31. Why was Tony Vandervell's first F1 Ferrari called "The Thinwall Special"?

Q30. Alfa Romeo

Q31. An American company developed bearings under the trade name Thinwall.
In 1932 Tony Vandervell (of Dutch origin - Van der Wal :)) formed a company called Vandervell Products and started manufacturing
these bearings under license.
In 1949 he bought a Ferrari that used Thinwall bearings and called it The Thinwall Special.

Thinwall bit seems right - he used the name to promote his bearings company.

First one, not so sure. Ferrari worked for Alfa, didn't he? Alfa is not the answer I have unless it has another (older) name that's very 'Italian'. If time, shall look into it.

Graham, I looked into the Ferrari question again, and found something that says the first Ferrari chassis was made by a company called Touring.

Bit of a cop-out, but I'll give another two questions at 6pm (GMT) tomorrow. Seems to be a bit of a question over this Ferrari thing :

"Auto Avio Construzione"

is the answer I have.

Searched a bit further and you're right, Graham.
Enzo Ferrari associated with Auto Avio Construzione, a small company that also worked with National Aviation Board of Rome, Piaggio and RIV.
In 1944 the factory was bombed.

I'll stick to my guns in future, then! ;)