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What is it? # 48 (UPDATE: Sima -Standard )
There is a new development in our Saturday competition. The experts begin to realise that a simple answer probably may not be enough to win. So we had several competitors in who did send updates to their own earlier answers....! Very amusing and adding up to superb material. Anyway, in the end we had three competitors who came up with the right make of car: Sima-Standard, which operated from 1929 up to 1932 that assembled outdated Citroën, Amilcar and other parts into soemthing 'new' . But was is the name of a make without a year or type? Only Dominique Barbault was keen enough to do an estimate on 1931 5CV . This based on a picture from his Chausson radiator catalogue. His answer was the closest we received. According to sender of the photo Philippe Boval (many thanks !!!) it is a 1930 car. So well done Dominique, you are the winner based on our rule: 1. Make 2. Year 3. Type. 4. Details. Now on this last issue of details our frequent visitor & expert Baron A. Lafitte de Montripier came up with something very interesting. SIMA and SIMCA are very close in Georgano. But did you know about their relationship?
(click pic to enlarge; photo courtesy Philippe Boval)
We quote the Baron;" The company still existed at the beginning of the thirties when R. Pigozzi bought the brand new plant in Nanterre of Jér?me Donnet who had just gone bankrupt, in order to build the FIAT under licence : the name SIMA could not be used as it has been planned originally and it had to be adapted to SIMCA, Société Industrielle de Mécanique et de Carrosserie Automobile. After the
war, when SIMCA purchased Ford France, it was said maliciously that its name standed for Société Italienne de Mécanique ? Capitaux Américains..... "
EARLIER TEXT: It may look common, yet the chances to meet a car like this on the French Routes Nationales are next to zero. Even when you were driving down there in the late twenties. This make existed three years and based it's business plan on assumptions that didn't work out. You've probably never heard from the Dutch specialist Fons Alkemade who is collecting information on the rare and ultra rare French car. So far he has found only (!) 1300 different makes. 'Mass production' cars like Bugatti, Amilcar, BNC & Salmson don't have to wait for his attention... ;-) Back to our competition. In order to win the infamous PreWarCar T-shirt you are invited to send your answer before Monday the 20th January to
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. Please add # 48 in the subject line. Only the best answer will win.
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Friday, 17 January 2003
There is a new development in our Saturday competition. The experts begin to realise that a simple answer probably may not be enough to win. So we had several competitors in who did send updates to their own earlier answers....! Very amusing and adding up to superb material. Anyway, in the end we had three competitors who came up with the right make of car: Sima-Standard, which operated from 1929 up to 1932 that assembled outdated Citroën, Amilcar and other parts into soemthing 'new' . But was is the name of a make without a year or type? Only Dominique Barbault was keen enough to do an estimate on 1931 5CV . This based on a picture from his Chausson radiator catalogue. His answer was the closest we received. According to sender of the photo Philippe Boval (many thanks !!!) it is a 1930 car. So well done Dominique, you are the winner based on our rule: 1. Make 2. Year 3. Type. 4. Details. Now on this last issue of details our frequent visitor & expert Baron A. Lafitte de Montripier came up with something very interesting. SIMA and SIMCA are very close in Georgano. But did you know about their relationship?
(click pic to enlarge; photo courtesy Philippe Boval)
We quote the Baron;" The company still existed at the beginning of the thirties when R. Pigozzi bought the brand new plant in Nanterre of Jér?me Donnet who had just gone bankrupt, in order to build the FIAT under licence : the name SIMA could not be used as it has been planned originally and it had to be adapted to SIMCA, Société Industrielle de Mécanique et de Carrosserie Automobile. After the
war, when SIMCA purchased Ford France, it was said maliciously that its name standed for Société Italienne de Mécanique ? Capitaux Américains..... "
