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6. A History of Renault Haren-Vilvoorde

Author : A. J. Jacobs

Published in: The Automotive Industry and European Integration

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter provides a brief history of Renault’s car plant near Brussels in Vilvoorde. It begins by discussing its launch in 1935 and destruction during World War II. It then reviews the rebuilt plant’s most productive periods, building Ramblers for American Motors during the 1960s, and its modernization and expansion during the 1970s and 1980s. The chapter then concludes with its most difficult period, the 1990s, leading to its closing in 1997.

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Footnotes
1
Belgique Automobile (2012); Renault Belgium (2017); Haren, a former independent municipality, was annexed into Brussels in 1921.
 
2
Ibid.
 
3
Autocar (1970); Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018); Renault Belgium (2017); Freyssenet (2018b).
 
4
Ibid.
 
5
New York Times (1961); Freyssenet (2003).
 
6
WSJ (1963, 1967); Jacobs (2016); Freyssenet (2018b).
 
7
Autocar (1970, 1977); Freyssenet (1998, 2018a, b); Charron (2004); Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018); Renault Belgium (2017).
 
8
Ibid.
 
9
Ibid.
 
10
Lusinchi (1979); Freyssenet (1998); Jacobs (2016).
 
11
Stuart (1978); Jacobs (2016).
 
12
Jacobs (2016).
 
13
WSJ (1981); Jacobs (2016).
 
14
New York Times (1984); Jacobs (2016).
 
15
Ward’s (1956–2018); WSJ (1985); Jacobs (2016).
 
16
Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018); Renault Belgium (2017); Freyssenet (1998, 2018a, b).
 
17
Ward’s (1956–2018); Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018); Renault Belgium (2017); Freyssenet (2018a, b).
 
18
Lavin and Pressley (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004); Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018).
 
19
AP (1994); Freyssenet (2003, 2009).
 
20
Lavin (1997); Freyssenet (2003, 2009, 2018a); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004).
 
21
Freyssenet (2003, 2018a, b); Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018).
 
22
Ward’s (1956–2018); Jacobs (2017); Freyssenet (2018b).
 
23
Ibid.
 
24
Ibid.
 
25
Ward’s (1956–2018); Jacobs (2017).
 
26
Bloomberg News (1997a, b); WSJ (1997); Lavin (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004).
 
27
Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004); Freyssenet (2009).
 
28
Buerkle (1997); Bruyninckx (1997); Holman (1997); Lavin (1997); Lavin and Pressley (1997); WSJ (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004).
 
29
Lavin and Pressley (1997); WSJ (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004); Freyssenet (2009); Belgium (2017–2018).
 
30
Buerkle (1997); Bruyninckx (1997); Lavin (1997); Lavin and Pressley (1997); Webster (1997); WSJ (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004); Van Den Broeck (2010).
 
31
Bruyninckx (1997); Lavin and Pressley (1997); MacIntyre (1997); Rosenzweig (2003).
 
32
Ibid.
 
33
Bremner (1997a, b); Bruyninckx (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004).
 
34
Beavis (1997); Rosenzweig (2003).
 
35
AP (1997a, b); Bloomberg News (1997a); Sage (1997); Webster (1997); Rosenzweig (2003); Charron (2004); Belgique Automobile (2012); Belgium (2017–2018).
 
36
Ibid.
 
37
Van Den Broeck (2010); Freyssenet (2018a, b).
 
38
Ward’s (1956–2018); Charron (2004); Belgium (2017–2018); Jacobs (2017); Renault Spain (2017).
 
39
Jacobs (2016); Belgium (2017–2018); Hope (2017).
 
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Metadata
Title
A History of Renault Haren-Vilvoorde
Author
A. J. Jacobs
Copyright Year
2019
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
The Automotive Industry and European Integration

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-17430-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-17431-6

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17431-6_6