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Aurelio Lampredi (June 16, 1917 in Livorno
Livorno

Livorno or Leghorn is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the Capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, having a population of approximately 170,000 residents as of the year 2007....
 - June 1, 1989 in Livorno
Livorno

Livorno or Leghorn is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the Capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, having a population of approximately 170,000 residents as of the year 2007....
) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 and aircraft
Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to flight by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere, of a planet. Examples include balloons, airplanes and helicopters....
 engine
Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
 designer.

He began his career at Piaggio
Piaggio

Piaggio based in Pontedera, Italy encompasses seven brands producing scooters and motorcycles. As the fourth largest producer of scooters and motorcycles in the world, Piaggio produces more than 600,000 vehicles annually, with five Research and development centers, more than 6,700 employees and operations in over 50 countries....
, makers of the Vespa
Vespa

Vespa is an Italy line of scooter manufactured by Piaggio.The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co....
 scooter, but quickly moved up to larger engines. He worked at Isotta-Fraschini
Isotta-Fraschini

Isotta Fraschini represents two Italian manufacturing companies which produce, respectively, marine engines and luxury goods. In the early 20th century it was famous worldwide as a luxury car manufacturer....
 before World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, and then joined Reggiane
Reggiane

Officine Meccaniche Reggiane SpA was an Italy aircraft manufacturer, owned by Caproni and situated in Reggio Emilia, a city of what today is the Emilia-Romagna region....
 to design aircraft engines.

Lampredi's fame brought him to Ferrari
Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari Joint stock company....
 in 1946 where he designed a large 4.5 L V12 (the "Lampredi engine
Ferrari Lampredi engine

Aurelio Lampredi designed a number of racing engines for Ferrari. He was brought on to hedge the company's bets with a different engine family than the small V12s designed by Gioacchino Colombo....
") which first saw use in 1950's 257S
Ferrari 275

The Ferrari 275 was a 2-seat FR layout Gran Turismo automobile produced by Ferrari between 1964 and 1968. It used a 3.3 L Ferrari Colombo engine 60? V12 engine and produced 280-300 hp....
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Aurelio Lampredi (June 16, 1917 in Livorno
Livorno

Livorno or Leghorn is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the Capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, having a population of approximately 170,000 residents as of the year 2007....
 - June 1, 1989 in Livorno
Livorno

Livorno or Leghorn is a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea on the western edge of Tuscany, Italy. It is the Capital of the Province of Livorno and the third-largest port on the western coast of Italy, having a population of approximately 170,000 residents as of the year 2007....
) was an Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 automobile
Automobile

An automobile or motor car is a wheeled motor vehicle for transportation passengers, which also carries its own car engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally f...
 and aircraft
Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to flight by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere, of a planet. Examples include balloons, airplanes and helicopters....
 engine
Engine

An engine is a mechanical device that produces some form of output from a given input.An engine whose purpose is to produce kinetic energy output from a fuel is called a Wiktionary:prime mover; alternatively, a motor is a device which produces kinetic energy from a preprocessed "fuel" ....
 designer.

He began his career at Piaggio
Piaggio

Piaggio based in Pontedera, Italy encompasses seven brands producing scooters and motorcycles. As the fourth largest producer of scooters and motorcycles in the world, Piaggio produces more than 600,000 vehicles annually, with five Research and development centers, more than 6,700 employees and operations in over 50 countries....
, makers of the Vespa
Vespa

Vespa is an Italy line of scooter manufactured by Piaggio.The Vespa has evolved from a single model motor scooter manufactured in 1946 by Piaggio & Co....
 scooter, but quickly moved up to larger engines. He worked at Isotta-Fraschini
Isotta-Fraschini

Isotta Fraschini represents two Italian manufacturing companies which produce, respectively, marine engines and luxury goods. In the early 20th century it was famous worldwide as a luxury car manufacturer....
 before World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, and then joined Reggiane
Reggiane

Officine Meccaniche Reggiane SpA was an Italy aircraft manufacturer, owned by Caproni and situated in Reggio Emilia, a city of what today is the Emilia-Romagna region....
 to design aircraft engines.

Lampredi's fame brought him to Ferrari
Ferrari

Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari Joint stock company....
 in 1946 where he designed a large 4.5 L V12 (the "Lampredi engine
Ferrari Lampredi engine

Aurelio Lampredi designed a number of racing engines for Ferrari. He was brought on to hedge the company's bets with a different engine family than the small V12s designed by Gioacchino Colombo....
") which first saw use in 1950's 257S
Ferrari 275

The Ferrari 275 was a 2-seat FR layout Gran Turismo automobile produced by Ferrari between 1964 and 1968. It used a 3.3 L Ferrari Colombo engine 60? V12 engine and produced 280-300 hp....
. Lampredi returned to Isotta-Fraschini in March 1947 but returned to Ferrari at the beginning of 1948. Lampredi's engines were used as large naturally-aspirated alternatives to the diminutive Gioacchino Colombo
Gioacchino Colombo

Gioacchino Colombo was an Italy automobile engine designer.Colombo was born in Legnano. He began work as an apprentice to Vittorio Jano at Alfa Romeo....
-designed V12s used in most Ferrari cars until that time. Especially after the failure of Colombo's supercharged engine in Formula 1, Lampredi's design began to find favor in the company. Lampredi oversaw Ferrari's racing effort during its early success in 1952 and 1953.

Lampredi's work at Ferrari ended permanently in 1955 when Ferrari bought Lancia
Lancia

Lancia Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italy automobile manufacturer founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia and which became part of the Fiat in 1969. The company has a long history of producing distinctive cars and also has a strong rally heritage....
's racing team and famed engine designer Vittorio Jano
Vittorio Jano

Vittorio Jano was an Italians automobile designer of Hungarian people descent from the 1920s through 1960s.Jano was born Viktor J?nos in San Giorgio Canavese, in Piedmont, to Hungarian immigrants, who arrived there several years before the birth of Jano....
, formerly of Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A. is an Italian automaker founded on 24 June 1910 in Milan. Alfa Romeo has been a part of the Fiat Group since 1986....
. Though Lampredi's engine designs lived on in Ferrari road cars, Jano's V6 and V8 engines quickly replaced Lampredi's large V12s for racing use.

After Ferrari, Lampredi went to Fiat
Fiat

Fiat S.p.A. Fiat based cars are constructed all around the world?the largest concern outside Italy is in Brazil . It also has factories in Argentina and Poland....
, where he oversaw that company's engine design efforts until 1977. It was at Fiat where he designed the Fiat Twin-Cam
Fiat Twin Cam engine

Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat Twin Cam was an advanced inline-4 automobile engine produced from 1959 through 1994 as a Fiat/Lancia engine until it was replaced by the "family B" series of engines....
 and SOHC
Fiat SOHC

Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat SOHC engine first appeared in the front-wheel drive Fiat 128 of 1969. The inline 4-cylinder engine comprised an iron cylinder block with an aluminium cylinder head containing a SOHC operating directly on both the inlet and exhaust valves in a reverse-flow cylinder head configuration....
 engines, which provided motive-force for most Fiat automobiles for over 32 years. He was also made manager of Fiat's Abarth
Abarth

Abarth is an Italy racing car maker founded by Italian-Austrian Carlo Abarth in Turin in 1949....
 factory racing group from 1973 through 1982.