Sovam

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Sovam SAS
legal form SAS
founding 1930
Seat Parthenay
Branch Automobile manufacturer
Website www.sovam.fr

Sovam from 1967
Sovam from 1968

Sovam SAS is a French company and a former manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

In 1930, André Morin founded the Société Anonyme des Véhicules André Morin in Châtillon-sur-Thouet . The company manufactured automobiles between 1964 and 1969. The brand name was Sovam . The company is now called Sovam SAS and has its headquarters in Parthenay . The company still manufactures equipment for airports today .

vehicles

Sporty models were on offer. The vehicles were to the floor pan of the Renault 4 and 6 and four-cylinder engines from Renault fitted behind the front axle. Engines with 845 cm³, 1108 cm³ and 1255 cm³ displacement were used, which made between 30 and 65 kW (41 and 88 hp ). There were the body styles Coupé and Targa .

A vehicle of this brand can be seen in the Musée Chapy in Boujan-sur-Libron in France. Another vehicle is in the Aspang Automobile Museum in Aspang-Markt in Lower Austria .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)
  • George Nick Georgano: Cars. Encyclopédie complète. 1885 à nos jours. Courtille, Paris 1975. (French)

Web links

Commons : Sovam  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://silodrome.com/sovam-1100vs/