Yes. In Italy we had too many little aircraft producers.

And the fascist government pampered them too.

We use a lot of old foreign licensed engines like the Piaggio (Gnome and Rhone), the Fiat (Pratt and Whithney) and not enough italian produced engines. Italy can make a perfect engine for sport use in the early thirties, like the Macchi series for the Schneider Trophy. But apparently, we can't produce a good italian engine for mass production.