Les presses Facel Vega - Amboise - France - Preserved Machines on Public Display on Waymarking.com

En 1945, Panhard et la Societe de l'Aluminium Francais etudierent avec Facel la construction de la premiere Dyna­Panhard.
C'est ainsi que Facel construisit 45 000 carrosseries en aluminium pour Panhard.
En 1948, Facel inaugura un departement de voitures de luxe de eerie: 23 500 Simca­Sport et 2 200 Ford Comete, sans parler des fameuses Bentley Cresta dont 17 unites furent produites dans nos usines.
En 1950 la fabrication d'elements de carrosserie des scooters Vespa, directement livres a Piaggio, vint completer la gamme de nos fabrications ainsi que les pieces embouties et soudees de la petite voiture Vespa 400. Puis Facel entreprit la fabrication des carrosseries de la jeep francaise, la Delahaye VLR, dans son usine de Dreux.
L'augmentation du carnet de commandes et de la production necessita une troisieme usine de fabrication: I'usine d'Amboise, qui devint par la suite l'usine centrale d'emboutissage.
Ainsi Facel s'etait specialise dans trois branches parfaitement distinctes:
1) Construction automobile : usines de Colombes et Dreux.
2) Aviation et equipement en acier inoxydable, usine d'Amboise.
3) Emboutissage et tolerie, usine d'Amboise.
A cette epoque Facel produisait environ 100 voitures de differents modeles par jour et employait un personnel de 1 700 ouvriers, cadres et ingenieurs.

In 1945, Panhard and the Societe de l'Aluminium Franc, studied with Facel the construction of the first DynaPanhard.
Thus, Facel built 45,000 aluminum bodies for Panhard.
In 1948, Facel inaugurated a department of eerie luxury cars: 23,500 SimcaSport and 2,200 Ford Comete, not to mention the famous Bentley Cresta, of which 17 units were produced in our factories.
In 1950, Vespa scooters' body parts were manufactured directly from Piaggio and completed the range of our manufactures as well as the stamped and welded parts of the small Vespa 400 car. Then Facel began manufacturing the bodies of the French jeep , The Delahaye VLR, in its factory in Dreux.
The increase in backlog and production required a third manufacturing plant: the Amboise plant, which subsequently became the central stamping plant.
Thus Facel had specialized in three perfectly distinct branches:
1) Automotive: factories of Colombes and Dreux.
2) Aviation and stainless steel equipment, Amboise plant.
3) Stamping and tolery, factory of Amboise.
At that time Facel produced about 100 cars of different models per day and employed a staff of 1,700 workers, managers and engineers.

Type of Machine: Presse à emboutir Year the machine was put on display: 1976 Year the machine was built: Not listed Is there online documentation for this machine: Not listed

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