Ferdinando Innocenti
Deceased Person
1891 – 1966
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Who was Ferdinando Innocenti?
Ferdinando Innocenti an Italian businessman who founded the machinery-works company Innocenti and was the creator of the Lambretta motorscooter.
Innocenti started working as an assistant to a blacksmith in 1907. By 1966, BMC models – primarily at that date versions of the Mini and the Austin/Morris 1100, assembled to a high standard at Innocenti's Milan plant – accounted for three percent of the Italian passenger car market.
On his death his son, Luigi, who had been vice-chairman since 1958, succeeded him in the top job at the company he had founded.
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