Quick as a flash Richard 'The Brochure King' Stanier has responded to this morning's blog on SOMUA the mystery truck and says: "Hi Brian, nice to see a real live SOMUA on the blog! The Societe Anonyme au Capital were a venerable French truck builder whose interests combined with Latil, and Renault Commercials to form the Saviem Group in the mid-50's. They also produced a nice line in heavy dumpers as in the attached brochure scan. Cheers! Rich." Is there anything TBK hasn't got in his archives? (And that's NOT a challenge!)
Hello
First, congratulations for this fantastic blog !
Second: SOMUA means "Société d'Outillage Mecanique et Usinage d'Artillerie".
(company for mechanical tooling and artillery manufacturing).
They are famous for their production of tanks in the 30s and also for their buses which were very common in Paris from the fifties to the seventies.
I enclose two photos by separate mail
Rgds