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Now available! Price is £35 plus postage and packing. I’ll add it to the shop, when I can find out how to do this!! I have always wondered about the Simca marque in France, it was established in 1898 by an Italian, native of Turin, Enrico Teodoro Pigozzi, who was funded by the Fiat-owning Agnelli family to set up an… Read more →

Though the Berliet company is known in France as a truck-maker, from 1899 to 1939 it also made automobiles. The founder, Marius Berliet, was an extraordinary character – a self-made man who established his business near Lyon, France’s second city, rather than near Paris where most other French manufacturers were based. Marius Berliet founded an industrial empire which, by 1967,… Read more →

A slow but steady seller, the Panhard flat-twins book has been reprinted and is now available but don’t delay ordering as I’ve had just 25 copies printed and three have already been posted out! Read more →

This new title on the French Hotchkiss empire, which lasted from 1867 to the mid-1950s, has proved extremely popular, so much so that I’ve had to order a reprint! Founded by an American arms manufacturer in France at the behest of Napoleon III at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries the company began machining parts for the thriving French motor… Read more →

Volume 3 has been delivered from my printers and is now available from the shop, price £28. This last volume covers twenty years from 1980 to 1999, a period when many social conflicts occurred throughout Europe and Italy, where industrial relations between management and workers at Fiat and their supporters, the Italian unions, were at their lowest ebb. “People did… Read more →

A newly revised, updated and extended edition of this title, first published in 2008, has been reprinted and is now available from the Shop. Following the success of The Stinkwheel Saga, Episode 1, first published in 2004 and now reprinted as Episode 1 v3, the second volume, Episode 2 v3, has also been reprinted. This second volume covers the lost-causes… Read more →

The immediate post-war period from 1950 to the mid-1960s saw Fiat renew their entire model range, replacing carry-overs of the pre-war models once funds were available and the Italian economy had recovered some stability after years of penury. Engineering had progressed, technologies had advanced and some of the most gifted engineers in Italy (Dante Giacosa, Aurelio Lampredi, Oscar Montabone, Gaudenzio… Read more →

This new book traces the history of the FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino) company from foundation in 1899, when a group of well-to-do young men decided to found one of the first Italian motorcar manufacturers in Turin, having watched imported French cars putter around and realising their country had no equivalent industry. One of the founders, Giovanni Agnelli, addressed a… Read more →

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Revised and amended, the text of The Wilfred Saga, first published in 2015, has now been reprinted so the third edition of this book is on sale again from the online shop. Read more →