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What were the SUMB trucks that used the French Flathead V8?

Steve says Simca, Unic, Marmon and Bocquet came together to build Marmon trucks, known by the acronym SUMB. From 1959 to 1973 they supplied medium-duty four-wheel-drive Flathead V8 trucks to the French military. In 1973 the tooling went to Renault, which supported the trucks into the mid-1990s and began converting them to diesel.

Expert

Steve Coppock

Evidence

expert attributed

Component

SUMB military truck

Applicable scope

Simca-Unic-Marmon-Bocquet (SUMB) four-wheel-drive trucks, 1959-1973