Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris

[Wendax]

A different form of public transport.

For one point, please respond and identify the builder of these vehicles. Further on, tell me when and where this picture was taken.

[Wendax]

up

[Wendax]

up again

[pnegyesi]

from the 1930s?

[Wendax]

yes

[pnegyesi]

America?

[Wendax]

No

[pnegyesi]

Europe?

[Wendax]

yes

[pnegyesi]

UK?

[Otto Puzzell]

Is the event the jubilation around the coronation of George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George)?

[Wendax]

Not from or in the UK, no kings involved

[Otto Puzzell]

A Worlds Fair?

[Wendax]

A Worlds Fair?

Yes 

[pnegyesi]

It is an electric train at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. I am looking for its manufacturer

[Wendax]

Yes, it is. That was the easy part. Nice picture, BTW.

Locked for you for one try.

[pnegyesi]

SCF Verney?

[Wendax]

The logo at the front (which I didn't know before) surely consists of the letters S, C and F. I don't know whether this is the SCF Verney logo. My source claims a different builder though.

Open to all again.

[pnegyesi]

Well, my source says that SCF Verney had exclusive rights for electric trains and electric taxis at the 1937 show. As SCF Verney was a builder of railcars, it doesn't seem surprising that they built such things too

[Wendax]

I guess you are right and my source (a French magazine) is wrong. The logo at the front convinces me. I had another train builder: Jourdain-Monneret.

One point for you.

[pnegyesi]

Thank you

[Wendax]

Same kind of train, different location:

[grobmotorix]

Two more Trocadero + World Fair Trains, 1937, from SCF:

[SACO]

SCF mean : Société Centrale de Chemins de fer

[grobmotorix]

So, what do you think - is it just a logo of the company running those vehicles like SNCF - or was SCF the manufacturer of them?