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  • Microcoches 1940 - 1970 Madrid
  • Great entrepreneurs from the 20th century

  GREAT ENTREPRENEURS FROM THE 20th CENTURY On 14th December, a new exhibition about entrepreneurs from Manresa in the 20th century was opened. AUSA, and its PTV, was the representative of industry in Manresa in the section of innovation.We can see that the PTV is shown as an example of innovation during the Spanish post-war period, the moment in which imports were forbidden and producers from the country started to produce all the could not be purchased abroad. I reproduce you the content of the posters where talk about the PTV:

  ”Carpenters, blacksmiths and other technicians were the base of the repairing and construction machines industry related to the textile industry. The post-war period obliged all these technicians to build the machines that were forbidden to import, and obliged them to develop new skills in applying a variety of new techniques. This training allowed them to open new perspectives when the hardest period of the post-war had passed, and the metal branch offered new opportunities. One of this opportunities was in the expansion of the car in general, and in the appearance of new demands, like a car for the modest families. This is what happened with the PTV. The creators of the PTV changed a car repair business into the factory of the PTV in 1953. The PTV was a small car,utilitarian and quite cheap, which would develop into the first car for a lot of Catalans, in competence with the Biscuter produced in Barcelona. 1.500 units were produced.”