Ferrari is an Italian sports car manufacturing company that is based in Maranello, Italy and was founded by Enzo Ferrari in the year 1929. He came fro ma well to do family who was one of the first families in Modena to own an automobile.. They owned a metal foundry that made railroad parts.
When World War I happened Enzo Ferrari’s father and brother, Dino, were both drafted into the Italian army and they both died from influenza in 1916. Enzo was then forced to quit school and run the metal foundry. Around this time the business collapsed despite the best efforts of Enzo, and he had no choice but to become a metal worker at the Modena Fire Brigade which was a metal workshop. Here he earned enough money to support his widowed mother.
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