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Fiat in pictures

Fiat : FIAT 4 HP - 1899
Fiat's first car, the 4HP, built between 1899 and 1900. Photograph: /Rex Features
Fiat : Senator Giovanni Agnelli founder of Fiat
Giovanni Agnelli, grandfather of legendary industrialist Gianni Agnelli and a co-founder of Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino (FIAT) in 1899. Photograph: Fabian Cevallos/Corbis
Fiat : A postcard advertising Fiat cars in 1904
Celebrity endorsement, 1904-style: a Fiat advertising postcard featuring French president Emile Loubet and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. Photograph: Roger Viollet /Rex Features
Fiat racing car at the Savannah races, 1910
A crowd gathers around Ralph DePalma's Fiat at the start of one of the 1910 Savannah Races, held on a 10-mile road course around the town of Savannah, Georgia, between 1908 and 1911. Photograph: Nathan Lazarnick/Getty Images
Women in Fiat Automobile in 1910
A crowd gather around two women in a white Fiat Tipo I 'Phaeton', Brescia, 1910. Photograph: Negri/Corbis
Fiat : Oct 1920, Turin A Communist meeting at the Fiat factory
A Communist party meeting at a Fiat factory in October 1920. A year later, communists rose up and took control of the company's facilities, forcing Giovanni Agnelli to resign in protest. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Rooftop racing at the Fiat works in Turin
The rooftop racetrack of Fiat's famous Lingotto factory in Turin, used for testing its cars, seen in December 1929. The factory was designed by Giacomo Matte-Trucco and completed in 1923. Photograph: Fox Photos/Getty Images
Fiat : A Fiat plane in Milan in 1940
World War Two: a Fiat G18V transport plane on display in Milan in 1940. The text on the banner, roughly translated, means "Fascist wings around the world". Photograph: Carl Mydans /Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Fiat : Men working in the Fiat Auto factory in 1940
Wartime production: workers in the Fiat factory in 1940. Photograph: Carl Mydans /Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Fiat : Workers leaving  Fiat factory after work in 1948
1948: workers leaving the giant Lingotto factory after the war. Photograph: Dmitri Kessel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Fiat : The old Fiat Cinquecento (500) in 1957
Birth of the new 'Topolino': Fiat's 'Nuova Cinquecento' (500), launched in 1957. Photograph: Fiat /AFP
Fiat : Nikita Khrushchev touring the Fiat factory  in 1960
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev touring the Fiat factory in 1960. Photograph: James Whitmore/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Worker's apartments built by Fiat for its employees
Apartments built by the company for its employees, photographed in 1962. Photograph: David Lees/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Fiat : Giovanni Agnelli, head of the family which owns the Fiat group in 1968
The presiding spirit: Gianni Agnelli, grandson of Giovanni and the head of Fiat from 1966 until 1996, with his family at home. Agnelli was Italy's most prominent industrialist and one of its most powerful men, as well as an internationally known figure who could count world leaders and film stars among his circle. Photograph: David Lees/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Fiat 500 driving down cobblestone street
A Fiat 500 driving down cobbled street in Noto, Sicily Photograph: John Miller/Corbis
Fiat : Giovanni Agnelli
Gianni Agnelli talking to Juventus football players in 1968. The Agnelli family took control of the famous Turin team in 1923 and still own it via a trust. Photograph: David Lees/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Fiat : Workers making the Fiat Panda in 1985
Workers making the small, no-frills Fiat Panda in Turin, 1985. Photograph: Alinari /Rex Features
Fiat 500 car, a relaunched and modernised version of the 1957 model
The new Fiat 500, conceived as an update to the popular 'Cinquecento' of 1957. Photograph: Fiat
Fiat auto brands, Lancia and Alfa Romeo
The modern conglomerate: Fiat, Lancia and Alfa Romeo insignia on top of the Mirafiori factory with the Alps in the background. The company also owns supercar makers Ferrari and Maserati, tractor builders Case and New Holland, truck company Iveco – and now Chrysler. Will Vauxhall and Opel be next? Photograph: EPS /Rex Features
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