PSA Poissy Plant

The automotive plant Poissy is a factory be built in the car since 1940. It is located in the city of Poissy in the French department of Yvelines right by the Seine. Over the years it had different owners; Today it belongs to the Peugeot group, which annually builds about 180,000 cars in the types Peugeot 207, Peugeot 207 SW Citroën DS3 and there.

1937 Ford announced in Poissy to build a car factory and control the business in France from there. Earlier, Ford had no manufacturing capacities in France and cooperated with the Strasbourg manufacturer Mathis. On June 14, 1940 Poissy was occupied by Germans, who led that production was then controlled by the German Ford headquarters in Cologne. During the war the factory was bombed several times, but was able to produce continuously except for breaks of a few weeks. On 26 August 1944, the work of American soldiers was liberated. Maurice Dollfus, which until 1949 was responsible for the business of Ford France of 1930, was interned as a collaborator in Drancy, but was released after only a short time in order to continue his work.

Since 1949 was produced in Poissy the Ford Vedette. 1954 Ford France was taken over by Simca. The new owner has invested in the work and made it to 1958 to the then most modern plant in Europe. 1958 took over Simca also the automaker Talbot. The Ford Vedette was Simca Vedette under the new name until 1961 in Poissy from the tape. In the same year the launch of the Simca 1000, which should be produced until 1978 took place. In the 1960s, Chrysler took over increasingly shares Simca Simca and changed its name in 1970 in France by Chrysler.

On August 10, 1978 Chrysler sold its European operations to Peugeot group, which thus took over the control over the work of Poissy. From 1979 to 1996 Peugeot introduced the plant under the brand name Talbot and built there until 1985 Talbot Horizon. From 1992 to 2002 they produced in Poissy Peugeot 306 Since 2010 there is the Citroën DS3 built.

The automotive plant Poissy employed in 2009 about 6,600 employees. Plant manager since 2009, Cyrille Courtier. 2003 Peugeot Group established in the immediate vicinity of the work, a service center, which also provides approximately 4,500 jobs.

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  • Nicolas Hatzfeld: Poissy, une legende automobile, ETAI, 2002, ISBN 2-7268-8520-9

48.9430452.052644Koordinaten: 48 ° 56 '35 " N, 2 ° 3' 10" E

  • Automotive industry
  • Poissy
  • PSA Peugeot Citroën
  • Ford
  • Simca
  • Talbot (car brand )
  • Chrysler
Mathis (cars) Drancy internment camp Simca-Talbot Horizon
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