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Ferruccio Lamborghini
Ferruccio Lamborghini was an Italian automobile designer and industrialist who created Lamborghini Trattori in 1948 and Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese.
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business · Italian industrialist, founder of Automobili Lamborghini (1916–1993) · entrepreneur · engineer · mechanic · racing automobile driver · industrialist · also Ferruccio Lamborghini, Lamborghini
Born 28 April 1916 · Died 20 February 1993 · Q311999
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1995· 1 entry
Son Tonino opened a museum that honors Lamborghini's legacy, the Centro Studi e Ricerche Ferruccio Lamborghini in Dosso (Ferrara), which was moved to Argelato (Bologna) in 2014 with the new name Museo Lamborghini
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1993· 1 entry
Died 1993-02-20.
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1974· 2 entries
Lamborghini exited the industrial world and retired to a 3 km2 (740-acre) estate named "La Fiorita" on the shores of Lake Trasimeno, in Castiglione del Lago, a town in the Umbria region of central Italy
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Lamborghini broke from tradition, naming the Countach not for a bull, but for contacc, a Piedmontese exclamation of astonishment
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1972· 1 entry
Lamborghini sold his entire holding in the company to rival tractor builder SAME
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1971· 1 entry
Lamborghini Trattori, which exported around half of its production of tractors, ran into trouble when its South African importer cancelled all its orders
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1969· 2 entries
After creating Automobili Lamborghini in 1963
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Founded Lamborghini Oleodinamica S
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1962· 1 entry
Ferruccio Lamborghini visited the Seville ranch of Don Eduardo Miura, a renowned breeder of Spanish fighting bulls
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1959· 1 entry
Opened an oil burner factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing air conditioning equipment
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1958· 2 entries
“Adolfo Orsi, then the owner of Maserati, was a man I had a lot of respect for: he had started life as a poor boy, like myself. But I did not like his cars much. They felt heavy and did not really go very fast.”
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Lamborghini traveled to Maranello to buy a Ferrari 250 GT: a two-seat coupé with a body designed by coachbuilder Pininfarina
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1948· 3 entries
When he founded Lamborghini Trattori, which quickly became an important manufacturer of agricultural equipment in the midst of Italy's post-WWII economic boom
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And Automobili Lamborghini in 1963, a maker of high-end sports cars in Sant'Agata Bolognese
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Lamborghini met Annita Borgatti, a 24-year-old teacher and daughter of the owners of the Fontana Hotel in Cento, who would accompany him in running his businesses for over thirty years
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1947· 2 entries
Their son Tonino was born, but Clelia died giving birth
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Ferruccio Lamborghini recognized an emerging market in post-War Italy devoted to agricultural and industrial revitalization
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1946· 2 entries
Married Clelia Monti (a native of Ferrara whom he had met in Rhodes during the war) in the church of Santa Maria in Vado in Ferrara
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The growing demand for tractors in the Italian market, combined with the experience gained in repairs, pushed Lamborghini to pursue a career as an entrepreneur in the production of tractors
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1945· 1 entry
Was arrested as a collaborator, and was not able to return home to Italy until the following year
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1940· 1 entry
Was drafted into the Italian Royal Air Force, where he served as a mechanic at the Italian garrison on the island of Rhodes, a territory of the Kingdom of Italy since 1911, after the Italo-Turkish War, becoming the su
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1916· 1 entry
Born 1916-04-28.
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