11/17/2023 0 Comments Mutiny car company![]() ![]() The engine and the gear box were manufactured at NMQ's own plant at Los Corrales de Buelna. The bodywork and under panels were delivered from England. The car was entirely assembled at Pamplona. The Mini would achieve the highest sales volumes of any model in the short history of Authi, with more than 140,000 shipped by the time the plant closed down seven years later. In April of that year, two versions of the Mini 1000 came to the market, respectively Standard and Special (Standard y Especial): even the standard version was seen as relatively well equipped at the time. Volume production started with the opening of the Pamplona plant in 1969. Highlighted at the time was the company's new spare parts centre, featuring a state-of-the-art computer inventory control system, employing punch-cards. ![]() In this year, presidency of the company passed to Manuel Diez Alegria. There was a further capital injection by Leyland in 1973 which raised the share capital to 2,400 million pesetas and left the residual minority share holders with very little influence over the business. It was announced in July 1967 by BLMC Chairman, Lord Stokes that his company had taken a controlling 51% share in NMQ. A Mini C 1275 followed in October, featuring leather seats and a walnut dashboard, along with various other pieces of additional equipment not featured by Minis produced in England. The first Spanish-built Authi product, an MG 1100, emerged in January 1967. Therefore, BMC's search for a Spanish partner able to build their cars for the Spanish market in Spain had coincided with NMQ's search for another automotive partner able to provide designs that could be produced locally. Work dried up when Renault moved their engine production in-house. NMQ had been supplying engines for the Spanish-built Renaults. The bank also had a controlling interest in Fasa Renault which had been building Renaults at their Valladolid plant for the Spanish market since 1951. The real owners of the business were the Banco de Santander and the Quijano family. (NMQ) which had originally been founded in 1899. The share capital was held by a Santander metal working business called Nueva Montaña Quijano S.A. The Authi firm was officially registered on 12 November 1965 under the chairmanship of Eduardo Ruiz de Huidrobo y Alzurena, with its head office and premises at Arazuri, a few kilometers to the west of Pamplona. ![]() ![]() The company's name stands for Automoviles de Turismo Hispano Ingleses: it is generally written and spoken as a word rather than as an acronym. The company survived only until 1976 when British Leyland ran out of money and the almost new Authi plant was sold to the SEAT car company after the failure of a bid for it from General Motors. Thus, Authi built almost identical copies of a range of Austin and Morris cars. The Authi car company of Pamplona, Spain, was founded in 1965 as a result of a collaboration between BMC (the British Motor Corporation) and NMQ ( Nueva Montaña Quijano).īMC needed a way to sell their cars in Spain, which at the time had strict rules to protect local automobile manufacturers from imported competitors and to protect local companies from foreign takeover. 1973 Austin Victoria MKII De Luxe 1973 Austin Victoria MKII De Luxe rear view ![]()
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