Silvio Benigno Crespi
Silvio Benigno Crespi (Milan , September 24, 1868 - Cadorago , January 15, 1944) was an Italian entrepreneur, inventor and politician. Firstborn of Cristoforo Benigno Crespi and Pia Travelli. He succeeded his father in running the firm of Crespi d'Adda which expanded along with the workers' village .
He graduated at only twenty-one years in law, went to France , Germany and England to follow the development of the cotton industry: he also worked in Oldham, at Platt Brothers, a famous manufacturer of textile machinery . In 1889 he joined his father.
He was among the world's most powerful men at the time and signed the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the First World War on behalf of Italy.[1]
On the Second World Motor Transport Congress in Roma 25-29 September 1928, Silvio Crespi proposed to use containers for road and railway transport systems as collaboration not as a competition between road and rail systems under auspices of the international organ similar to the Sleeping Car Company for international carriage of passengers in sleeping wagons. He is forgotten promoter of exploitation the container system in Europe before Second World War. [2]
References
- ↑ WHAT IS CRESPI D'ADDA? at www.villaggiocrespi.it
- ↑ Lewandowski, Krzysztof (2014). "Czechoslovak activity to prepare European norms for containers before the Second World War" (PDF). Acta Logistica 1 (4): 1–7. ISSN 1339-5629.
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