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Fiat’s small cars for Polish mass motorisation: The Small Engine Car Factory in Bielsko-Biała and Tychy, 1971–80 (June 2017)

The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 38
Issue: 1
Pages: 37-52

DOI: 10.1177/0022526617698152

ISSN: 0022-5260

Publication Date: June 2017
Edition Details: Special Issue: East-West Cooperation in the Automotive Industry: Mobility, Production and Flows
Language: English

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Automobile industry Technology Licensing Cold War Engines 20th century Poland Eastern Europe Fiat (firm)

The paper presents the 1970s licensing agreement between the communist government of Poland and the Italian company Fiat for the production of small motor vehicles, the Fiat 126 model, and the consequent building of the Small Engine Car Factory (Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych) in Bielsko-Biała and Tychy. The project aimed to enhance Polish economic international competitiveness, to narrow a technological gap between the country and the West, but – most of all – to transplant to Poland an element of Western modernity: individual car ownership. In fact, with three million units produced, 126 was the car that had motorised Poland. The paper focuses on managerial problems that state bureaucracy had to tackle in the process of constructing a new car factory, showing how the political goal of mass motorisation overtook any other financial or industrial constraints, though reducing productivity and financial sustainability of the project.

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