British Motor Corporation licence, its name was: 'AUTHI' -'Automoviles de Turismo Hispano-Ingleses' -'Spanish-English Tourism Automobiles'. The factory was in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, and when the production of Austin and Mini cars was discontinued, Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo (SEAT), owned by the state and some banks and industrial investors, purchased the factory. After the takeover of SEAT by Volkswagen, SEAT made an 'internal' resale of the Pamplona factory, formerly Authi, to Volkswagen, which soon started producing there the 'Polo'. The Wilson Labour government (1964–1970) came to power at a time when British manufacturing industry was in decline and decided that the remedy
Ernesto de Quesada in Madrid since his father died in 1972, reorganised it as Hispania Clásica in 1996. One of the founder's grandsons, Enrique de Quesada, Jr. in Caracas, is its director for Latin America. Ernesto de Quesada also founded La Sociedad Artística Daniel and La Sociedad Musical Daniel. La Sociedad Musical Daniel was the organizing force on the Latin American side for a twenty-eight-week U.S. government-sponsored ballet tour of Latin America in 1941, which was said by "Dance Magazine" to have been "the first example of an American government's support of dance." With fellow impresario Sol Hurok and others, de Quesada was