Ercole Marelli

Foundation of Ercole Marelli

In 1891, when he returned to Italy, he founded a modest workshop of electrical appliances in the centre of Milan, assisted by a worker; they manufactured apparatus of physics and geodesy, electric machines for school toilets, batteries, accumulators and electro-medical devices. From 1898 it also began to trade AC motors.

Foundation of Magneti Marelli

In 1919 by Ercole Marelli he broke off a production department of automobile magnetos, which later became in turn the company Magneti Marelli. The joint venture established equal shares of capital, giving the presidency and the technical management, as well as the commercial one to Marelli. The ownership was then entrusted to the husband of his daughter, Bruno Antonio Quintavalle, who remained until 1967. In that year the entire stock package passed to Fiat and his brother Umberto Quintavalle.