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New Horizons: Morocco and Kenya, Documentary, 1970

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1961 Fiat 600 D

1966 Fiat 600 D

1964 Fiat 850

1970 Ford Escort MkI

1963 Ford F-100

1958 Ford Ranch Wagon

1962 Land-Rover 109'' Series IIa

1968 Mercedes-Benz [W115]

1966 Mercedes-Benz 190 [W110]

Mercury Truck & Tractor unknown

Motobécane AV 88

Motobécane AV 89

1959 Opel Rekord

1960 Peugeot 403 Family Saloon

1968 Renault 10 Major

1968 Renault 4 Fourgonnette

1969 Renault Estafette 800

1962 Simca 1000

1969 Simca 1000

1967 Simca 1301

1969 Toyota Corolla

1958 Volkswagen Limousine [Typ 1]

1968 Volkswagen unknown T2 [Typ 2]

1962 Volvo Amazon

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sixcyl ◊ 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
dsl ◊ 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.
Bux_48 ◊ 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"
dsl ◊ 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??

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