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1898 |
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Turín-Italy. Enrico Teodoro Pigozzi is born the 26 of June. |
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1922 |
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Pigozzi met Carlo Carmone, who introduced him to Giovanni Agnelli, the founder and owner of FIAT. Pigozzi started to send car bodies to FIAT foundries in Turin for recycling. |
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1924 |
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Pigozzi becomes the representative of FIAT in France. |
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1926 |
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Started a distributorship for FIATs called SAFAF (Société Anonyme Français des Automobiles FIAT). The organization started to assembly FIATs in a plant in Suresnes (Paris boundary) from spare parts, which either had been imported separately, or built under license in Paris. From 1928 to 1934, approximately 30000 FIATs were assembled and sold by Pigozzi. |
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1934 |
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Pigozzi, the former scrap merchant, while walking by chance along the way Paris - Saint-Germain, noticed an advertisement announcing the sale of the old Donnet-Zédel factory. The industry in France by those days was certainly not flourishing, but nevertheless, Pigozzi acquired the 50 000 m² installation. On 2 Nov , la Société Industrielle de Méchanique et de Carrosserie Automobile, SIMCA, settled down at 163 to 185 Avenue Georges Clemenceau, in Nanterre. |
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1936 |
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In April, appeared the first SIMCA-FIAT, a faithful counterpart of the 500 Topolino. |
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1937 |
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In December, in accordance with FIAT, the first FIAT 508C (Balilla) left the mill of the old "Donnet" factory by the Seine. At this stage these cars were no longer called SIMCA-FIAT, but merely SIMCA. Like the preceeding model (the SIMCA-Cinq), this one also had a numerical denomination: SIMCA-Huit (Simca Eight). |
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1939 |
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The SIMCA-Deho sports car was shown. Outside of France, the brand was quite successful in competition, particularly the Amédée Gordini modified 508 and the 508 C, with aerodynamic 2 seat body, which won several races, the Bol d'Or, la Course de Reims for small sports cars, the Paris-Nice rallye and the 1939 Course du Mans.
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