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◊ 2024-05-11 11:13 |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pan Am's touristic travelogue about Morocco and Kenya. Rabat, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, Nairobi, Monbasa, Ayres National Park,... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SkdZFk6kM&t=19s Background vehicles: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Boats: ![]() ![]() ![]() Cameras: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lights: ![]() ![]() ![]() -- Last edit: 2024-05-11 11:14:44 |
◊ 2024-07-25 20:18 |
Morocco car assembly in 1960s seems to have been centred on the Somaca plant in Casablanca, opened in 1959. It churned out Renaults (still the majority owner - 80%) alongside Fiats and Simcas (which in those days were linked companies; PSA apparently still has a legacy 20% holding in Somaca) Difficult to find out which Renaults, Fiats and Simcas were Somaca builds and when, but definitely Simca 1000s from 1962, and it produced its last Renault 4 in 1993, a year(?) after French builds ended. But I think it's likely that all the Moroccan Fiats, Simcas and Renaults in the film were Somaca built. |
◊ 2024-07-25 22:28 |
On French Wikipedia there’s a list (up to 1997) of vehicles produced by SOMACA, with even some dates and figures: Link to "fr.m.wikipedia.org" |
◊ 2024-07-25 23:19 |
Interesting - seems to confirm that all the Simcas/Fiats/Renaults here fit local build. Am separately intrigued by this "56 Aronde" I stumbled on in another Morocco promo film - could it be a 59+ local build as one of the first Simca products?? |