IMOSA

Industrias del Motor, S.A., known as IMOSA, was a Spanish company founded on 17 November 1950 with five million pesetas of capital to build DKW vehicles under licence from the German maker Auto Union. It was first registered in Barcelona to take over the licence held by Automóviles Eucortes, S.A.; on 9 November 1951 it moved its registered office to Vitoria, known in Basque as Gasteiz, and that December it signed its first licence contract with Auto Union. Building of the plant began in 1953, the first vehicle, a DKW F 89 L, was assembled on 20 March 1954, and full production of vans started the following year. In 1963 the firm had 1,841 employees and received from Auto Union the world exclusive to build the DKW F 1000. In 1972 IMOSA and its subsidiaries merged with the Daimler-Benz controlled CISPALSA to form MEVOSA.