Saviem

History

SAVIEM Public limit company of Industrial Vehicles and Equipment Mechanics, is a company created in 1955 by the fusion of the branch weight-heavy of Renault, Automobiles Industrialists Latil and Somua, Société of Tools Mechanical and Artillery Machining under the mark LRS, then Saviem. In 1959, the repurchase of the manufacturer of bus Floirat (of which the mark is definitively stopped in 1961) and especially of Chausson makes it possible the firm to acquire a modern factory specialized in the manufacture of bus and coaches.

In 1967, 4x4 SAVIEM SM8 appears with the catalog. It belongs to the average range at the sides of the " SM5" , " SM6" and " SM7" ; animated by the engine six cylinders " 597".

From 1967 to 1977, Saviem cooperates with MAN: the first provides the cabins and the second motorizes them; the models are sold under the two respective marks.

In 1975, the club of the four is formed: Saviem , DAF, Volvo and Magirus-Deutz is intended to produce jointly a model of class " médium" starting from a cell and of a common cabin (Series J and H for French).

In 1978, Berliet and the Saviem amalgamate to create the single French manufacturer of weight-heavy, Renault Véhicules Industrial, the branch “heavy trucks” of the Renault group.

With beginning of the year 80, just like Berliet, Saviem sees its name disappearing from the models to the profit of the common mark Renault.

Anecdotes

From 1976 to 1979, on ordering of the French Army, it builds 1.616 specimens of the truck 4x4 Saviem SM8 TRM 4000.

Since the Eighties, the Saviem factories were transferred to Prague as a Czech Republic where the trucks are marketed through all the country of the Soviet ex-union, under the mark Avia Trucks.

Some trucks

JL and JM
Goëlette and Galleon
(SuperGoëlette) SG2
SG3
(SuperGalion) SG4
SM
PS and PX

Some buses and bus

SC10
S45
S53
S105
E7 DRUNK

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