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Saviem (Société Anonyme de Véhicules Industriels et d'Equipements Mécaniques) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 manufacturer of truck
Truck

File:Red truck USA.JPGA truck is a type of motor vehicle commonly used for carrying goods and materials. Some light trucks are relatively small, similar in size to a passenger automobile....
s and bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
es and a part of the Renault
Renault

Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., it is currently the world's 4th largest automaker.It owns the Romanian automaker Dacia and the Korean automaker Renault Samsung Motors....
 group. Its successors today are Renault Trucks
Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks is a France truck manufacturer with its corporate headquarters at Saint-Priest, Rh?ne near Lyon.Since 2001 it has been owned by Volvo Group....
 in the truck business and Irisbus
Irisbus

Irisbus is an Italy bus manufacturer which was formed through the merger of bus and coach divisions of Fiat, Iveco and Renault in January 1999....
 in the bus-building world.

company Saviem was formed in 1955 by the merger of Renault's truck and bus producing operations with the manufacturers Somua
Somua

Somua, an acronym for Soci?t? d'outillage m?canique et d'usinage d'artillerie, was a French company that manufactured machinery and vehicles....
 and Latil.






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Saviem (Société Anonyme de Véhicules Industriels et d'Equipements Mécaniques) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 manufacturer of truck
Truck

File:Red truck USA.JPGA truck is a type of motor vehicle commonly used for carrying goods and materials. Some light trucks are relatively small, similar in size to a passenger automobile....
s and bus
Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
es and a part of the Renault
Renault

Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. Due to its alliance with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., it is currently the world's 4th largest automaker.It owns the Romanian automaker Dacia and the Korean automaker Renault Samsung Motors....
 group. Its successors today are Renault Trucks
Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks is a France truck manufacturer with its corporate headquarters at Saint-Priest, Rh?ne near Lyon.Since 2001 it has been owned by Volvo Group....
 in the truck business and Irisbus
Irisbus

Irisbus is an Italy bus manufacturer which was formed through the merger of bus and coach divisions of Fiat, Iveco and Renault in January 1999....
 in the bus-building world.

History

The company Saviem was formed in 1955 by the merger of Renault's truck and bus producing operations with the manufacturers Somua
Somua

Somua, an acronym for Soci?t? d'outillage m?canique et d'usinage d'artillerie, was a French company that manufactured machinery and vehicles....
 and Latil. From 1957 on, Saviem-LRS appeared as brand name on the company's products (the acronym signifying the former brands Latil, Renault and Somua), which was later simplified to Saviem.

From 1967 to 1977, Saviem cooperated with MAN
MAN AG

MAN Aktiengesellschaft is a German language mechanical engineering company based in Munich.MAN is one of the world's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment and commercial vehicles....
 of Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. Also, in 1975 Saviem together with DAF
DAF Trucks

DAF Trucks NV is a Netherlands truck manufacturing company and a division of PACCAR. Its headquarters and main plant are in Eindhoven. Cabs and axle assembly are produced at its Westerlo plant in Belgium....
, Volvo
Volvo Trucks

Volvo Trucks , a Sweden truck manufacturer, owned by Volvo, is the Truck#Heavy truck market worldwide.Founded in 1928, in 2008 Volvo Trucks employed about 22,000 people around the world....
 and Magirus-Deutz
Magirus

Magirus Feuerwehrwerke Ulm was a Germany manufacturer founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus . The company began manufacturing fire-fighting vehicles in 1864....
 (soon after to become a part of Iveco
Iveco

Iveco is an Italy truck, bus, and diesel engine manufacturer, based in Turin, Italy. It is a subsidiary of the Fiat Group, and produces around 200,000 commercial vehicles and 460,000 diesel engines annually, and for the year ended 2007 the company had Euro11,196 million in sales ....
) became co-founder of the Club of Four cooperation to produce medium-sized trucks.

As a result of French industrial policy, in 1975 state-owned Renault also acquired the truck and bus producer Berliet
Berliet

Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, trucks and other utility vehicles, based in Venissieux, outside of Lyons, France.Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894....
 from the Michelin
Michelin

Michelin based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne r?gion of France, is primarily a tire manufacturer, currently the world's second largest....
 group. In 1978, Berliet and Saviem were merged to form Renault Véhicules Industriels (RVI). Again, the old brand names were retained for two more years while the model lineups gradually were assimilated, until in 1980 they were replaced by the name Renault and the Saviem brand disappeared.

The company Saviem was reformed in 2006.

Products


Trucks


  • Goélette
  • Galion
  • Super Goélette 2 (SG2)
  • SAVIEM 4x4 SM8 TRM 4000


Buses


  • ZR 20, 1957
  • SC10
  • S45
  • S53
  • S105
  • E7 coach



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