Carlo Maserati

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Carlo Maserati (Voghera, 1881 - 1919) was an italian automotive engineer, brother of the Maserati founding brothers and son of Rodolfo Maserati and Carolina Losi.

His engineering career started in a bicycle factory in Affory, near Milan, where he developed a one-cylinder internal combustion engine for motorized bicycles. The engine went into production at Marquis Michele Carcano di Anzano del Parcos factory, using a leather strap as transmission. Carlo was engaged as a racer of these bicycles, winning the Brescia-Orzinouvi (1899), Padova-Bovolenta (1900) and Brescia-Mantova-Verona-Brescia (1900).

Carcanos factory ended in 1901, and Carlo worked as test driver for Fiat (1901-1903), then as test driver and mechanic at Isotta-Fraschini (1903) where he was joined by brother Alfieri Maserati,

He moved to Bianchi automobiles (1907), where he raced the Coppa Florio and the Kaiserpreis, before becoming manager of the Junior car company (1908). At Junior, he hired his brother Ettore Maserati. Later they established their own workshop that built low- to high voltage converters for cars.

He died of tuberculosis in 1919.

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