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Title: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: Wendax on September 08, 2012, 01:38:01 AM
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.
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 15, 2012, 01:26:46 AM
up
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Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 01:40:13 AM
up again
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Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 02:43:29 AM
from the 1930s?
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 03:34:18 AM
yes
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 03:40:30 AM
America?
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Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 03:49:40 AM
No
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Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 04:20:05 AM
Europe?
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Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 04:33:51 AM
yes
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Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 04:45:00 AM
UK?
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Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 22, 2012, 05:03:24 AM
Is the event the jubilation around the coronation of George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George)?
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 06:41:40 AM
Not from or in the UK, no kings involved
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 22, 2012, 06:43:55 AM
A Worlds Fair?
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 06:48:40 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on September 22, 2012, 06:43:55 AM
A Worlds Fair?
Yes  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 06:55:58 AM
It is an electric train at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. I am looking for its manufacturer

(http://www.parisenimages.fr/Export450/5000/4260-12.jpg)
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 07:17:37 AM
Yes, it is. That was the easy part. Nice picture, BTW.

Locked for you for one try.
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 07:22:12 AM
SCF Verney?
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 01:21:04 PM
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.
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 01:37:01 PM
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
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 02:56:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: Wendax 660
Post by: pnegyesi on September 22, 2012, 02:58:07 PM
Thank you
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: Wendax on January 04, 2013, 05:08:15 PM
Same kind of train, different location:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: grobmotorix on January 08, 2013, 06:35:55 PM
Two more Trocadero + World Fair Trains, 1937, from SCF:

Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: SACO on January 09, 2013, 06:30:31 AM
SCF mean : Société Centrale de Chemins de fer
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: grobmotorix on January 09, 2013, 12:50:07 PM
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?
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: Wendax on January 09, 2013, 01:15:37 PM
As I understand the French wikipedia article it was both.
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: Wendax on February 10, 2013, 05:26:19 AM
Another picture:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: SACO on February 10, 2013, 08:08:32 AM
I think that Verney was a builder of bus and bus modified for the SNCF !
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: grobmotorix on February 08, 2015, 09:58:58 AM
Two more, less known photos of this train:
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Post by: Wendax on January 25, 2020, 12:28:09 PM
Quote from: Wendax on September 22, 2012, 02:56:34 PM
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.
Well, there must have been some strong connection to Jourdain-Monneret, as they featured this train on the title of their brochure together with the Autelec built by them:
Title: Re: Solved: Wendax 660 - Electric road train by SCF Verney at the 1937 World Fair in Paris
Post by: grobmotorix on January 27, 2020, 03:17:46 PM
What a find - cool.
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