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An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer
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Jordi's brother Xavier once said "Companies are like their creators, my father was an industrialist and Bultó lived and breathed racing"
An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer www.retrotrials.com
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An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer www.retrotrials.com
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Montesa, the company, actually started in 1944 and started production 1 year later in 1945. Always the largest part of the capital that was invested in the new company was from my father, it was a small investment from Mr Bulto, the Investment was in the region of a 70/30 difference. The partnership was called the Montesa society. Later it would involve more people.
An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer www.retrotrials.com
An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer www.retrotrials.com
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An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer www.retrotrials.com
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An exclusive interview with Montesa's Jordi Permanyer www.retrotrials.com
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Had your father had any involvement with motorcycles prior to starting montesa ?
He had used motorcycles himself on the road but not racing. He had an aerial English motorcycle.
He had used motorcycles himself on the road but not racing. He had an aerial English motorcycle.
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Pere Permanyer
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What was the character of your father like? What was he like as a man ?
He was a very hard worker and he had the mentality for production, he likes especially the production side of industry, so he made a lot of contacts in order to produce products in his life. I remember there were many many files of information in his office to produce, for instance, washing machines, many many many different products. |
Montesa made rotavators and outboard motors amongst other things . Montesa also made washing machines from 1960 until 1970 because "This was the future".
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He succeeded in motorcycle production and also in other areas . For example my father met a Mr Neimann in 1953, at the Geneva motorcycle show, Mr Neimann was starting with the idea of producing locks for cars . He had already produced them for motorcycles first. They met in this motorcycle show and they decided between themselves to arrange a factory for production in Barcelona making the Locks . This was a big factory, the factory was called Clauso.