Silvio Benigno Crespi (24 September 1868 in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

– 15 January 1944 in Cadorago) was an Italian entrepreneur, inventor and politician. Firstborn of

Cristoforo Benigno Crespi Cristoforo Benigno Crespi (18 October 1833 in Busto Arsizio – 5 January 1920 in Milan) was an Italian entrepreneur. Biography In 1897 a cotton textile industry was created in the province of Milan and the factory and its worker village, called ...

and Pia Travelli. He succeeded his father in running the firm of

Crespi d'Adda Crespi d'Adda is a village in northern Italian and hamlet (''frazione'') of Capriate San Gervasio, a municipality in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy. It is a historic settlement and an outstanding example of the 19th and early 20th-century "com ...

, today a

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that is considered notable for being a 19th and 20th century

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which reflected enlightened industrialists' respect for their employees. He graduated with a law degree at age 21 and went to France, Germany and England to follow the development of the cotton industry. He also worked in

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, at

Platt Brothers Platt Brothers, also known as Platt Bros & Co Ltd, was a British company based at Werneth in Oldham, North West England. The company manufactured textile machinery and were iron founders and colliery proprietors. By the end of the 19th century ...

, a famous manufacturer of textile machinery. In 1889 he joined his father's firm Crespi d'Adda where he expanded the village and introduced the construction of homes with gardens. He was among the world's most powerful men at the time and signed the

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at the end of the

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on behalf of Italy.WHAT IS CRESPI D'ADDA?
at www.villaggiocrespi.it At the Second World Motor Transport Congress in Roma 25-29 September 1928, Silvio Crespi proposed to use

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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 a forgotten promoter of exploitation the container system in Europe before

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