And the buying of new machi... by Gianni Agnelli, an Italian Businessman

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“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.”

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Name: Gianni Agnelli

Nationality: Italian

Date of Birth: Mar 12, 1921

Date of Death: Jan 24, 2003

Profession: Businessman

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Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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