1. Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti was an Italian automobile designer and manufacturer.
17 Facts About Ettore Bugatti
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Ettore Bugatti is remembered as the founder and proprietor of the automobile manufacturing company Automobiles E Bugatti, which he founded in 1909 in the then German town of Molsheim in the Alsace region of what is France.
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Ettore Bugatti was born into an artistic family in Milan, Italy.
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Ettore Bugatti was the elder son of Carlo Bugatti, an important Italian Art Nouveau furniture and jewellery designer, and his wife, Teresa Lorioli.
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Ettore Bugatti's younger brother, Rembrandt, was a renowned animal sculptor.
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Ettore Bugatti's paternal grandfather, Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, was an architect and sculptor.
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Ettore Bugatti's design caught the eye of Baron Adrien de Turckheim, who offered Bugatti the opportunity to come and design automobiles at his Lorraine-Dietrich car factory in Niederbronn.
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In 1902 Ettore Bugatti became the head of technology at De Dietrich.
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Ettore Bugatti produced several prototypes, collaborating closely with the Cologne based Deutz company.
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In 1907, Ettore Bugatti was appointed Production Director with Deutz.
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In 1913, Ettore Bugatti designed a small car for Peugeot, the Type 19 Bebe.
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Exceptional engineering led to success in early Grand Prix motor racing, with a Ettore Bugatti being driven to victory in the first Monaco Grand Prix.
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Between the wars Ettore Bugatti designed a successful motorized railcar dubbed the Autorail Ettore Bugatti, and won a government contract to construct an airplane, the Model 100.
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Surgical instruments, designed by Ettore Bugatti for a friend who was a professor at a nearby hospital, are still in use to this day.
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Ettore Bugatti died at the American hospital in the inner-Paris suburb of Neuilly, in the late summer of 1947.
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Ettore Bugatti was almost certainly unaware of the court decision whereby his property in Alsace, which had been seized by the state in the feverish post-liberation frenzy of anger and retribution which his Italian origins had invited, was restored to him on 20 June 1947; Bugatti died just over two months later, on 21 August without having recovered consciousness.
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Ettore Bugatti was buried in the Ettore Bugatti family plot at the municipal cemetery in Dorlisheim, near Molsheim, in the Bas-Rhin department of France.