Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been read more

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic read more

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their read more

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as read more

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.