Word: simca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evening last March, Francis Carlson ("Jack") Reith, general manager of Ford of France, went to an American Embassy dinner in Paris and found himself sitting next to Henri-Thèodore Pigozzi, managing director of Simca. France's third biggest automaker (after Renault and CitrÖen). The two started talking shop, found that their ideas about France and about automobiles were remarkably similar. This week the meeting of their minds gave France a new industrial giant. French Ford stockholders voted to merge their company with Simca, making the new company second in size only to the nationalized Renault...
...become the French distributor of Italy's Fiat cars. When he ran into import and tariff troubles, he took over a small assembly plant in France. In 1934, after assembling 32,000 Fiats, he bought out a bankrupt auto factory near Paris for $300,000 and organized Simca (Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile). Gradually he loosened his ties with Fiat, and today Simca, while it still uses Fiat designs on a royalty basis, is Pigozzi...
...Simca's sleek little Aronde car is considered the hottest thing on the French market today. Priced at $1,870, it is a strong competitor in popularity to the $995 Renault Baby. Simca's passenger-car output in the first six months of 1954 totaled 40,655. Net profit last year was $1,570,000. Simca's exports have climbed from 4.77% of all French cars sold abroad in 1949 to 18% last year...
FRENCH AUTO MERGER between Simca and Ford of France will result in the biggest privately owned French auto company, topped only by the government-owned Renault works. Under the deal, Simca will acquire Ford's modern operating plant at Poissy, near Paris, continue to make Ford's small Vedette model...
...their visual appeal than were Venetian gondolas [and] English landaus." In the museum garden, blending nicely with its modern sculpture, were ten recent models: a Lancia and Siata from Italy, an MG and Aston-Martin from Britain, a snappy little Porsche from Germany, a Cométe and a Simca from France. The three U.S. models: a 1953 Studebaker, a Nash-Healey (standard Nash engine, with British chassis and Italian coachwork), and a big, hand-built Cunningham convertible with a long, oval-grilled snout and a racer's body. (Engine: Chrysler V8. Speed: up to 130 m.p.h. Price...