Editing Simca (section)

== Foundation ==
[[Henri Pigozzi]] was active in the automotive business in the early 1920s when he met [[Fiat]] founder [[Giovanni Agnelli]]. They began business together in 1922 with Pigozzi acting as a scrap merchant, buying old automobile bodies and sending them to Fiat for recycling.<ref name=Beaulieu>{{cite book |last=Georgano |first=N.  | author-link=G.N. Georgano  |title=Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile |year=2000 |publisher=HMSO |location=London |isbn=1-57958-293-1}}</ref> Two years later Pigozzi became Fiat's [[General Agent]] in France and in 1926 SAFAF (Société Anonyme Française des Automobiles Fiat) was founded. In 1928, SAFAF started the assembly of Fiat cars in Suresnes near Paris and licensed the production of some parts to local suppliers. By 1934, as many as 30,000 Fiat cars were sold by SAFAF.<ref name="histomobile">{{cite web|url=http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/internet/26/histo02.htm |title=Simca history |website=Histomobile.com |access-date=2006-08-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060419061325/http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/internet/26/histo02.htm |archive-date=April 19, 2006 }}</ref>