Belgian marques: cab- and bodybuilders

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS OLD TIME LORRIES, COMPANIES AND DRIVERS (INTERACT
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Well…let’s not forget the many in Belgium…

  1. Jonckheere

  2. Bollekens

  3. Van Dijck

  4. Stevens

  5. Liekens

  6. Van Hool

  7. Covi/Coovi

  8. Bostova

  9. Heymans

  10. …

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  1. Bogaerts, Stoelen & Van Oytsel (BOSTOVO) later continued as Stoelen

  2. Maes

  3. Verleure

  4. Bus & Car

  5. Denolf & Depla

  6. …

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Nice additions…let’s proceed this way! Thank you

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When busses (and their bodies) are involved…let’s add:

  1. L.A.G.

  2. Desot

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ERF-Continental:
When busses (and their bodies) are involved…let’s add:

  1. L.A.G.

  2. Desot

ERF is L.A.G. the same company who made road tankers

cheers Johnnie

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Johnnie…indeed L.A.G. Bree, wellknown for tank-trailers and now through Burg-group related to a Chinese investor

L.A.G. stands for Lambert & Arnold Geusens…really active since 1953

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sammyopisite:

ERF-Continental:
When busses (and their bodies) are involved…let’s add:

  1. L.A.G.

  2. Desot

ERF is L.A.G. the same company who made road tankers

cheers Johnnie

Hey, yes Johnnie but now dutch hands L and A Geusens LAG

  1. three more in beveren Roulers which I can’t remember by name.
  2. Ouvry Ostend

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Hey, Latré (Gits) of the cool trailers made of steel sandwich panels ,which also converted lots of non sleepers with
one , (partly gone up in Turbo’s Hoet) (rest restarted as) Ameel trailers. As Cardever was one of the Desot
family members.

Eric,

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  1. Ateliers Metallurgiques de Nivelles (AMN)

  2. Ateliers de Familleureux (later ABR), made Mack buses (Brussels & Ghent)

  3. Ateliers Germain (made bus bodies on Brossel for SNCV)

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Thank you so much till now for refreshing the list…I shall prepare an alphabetical list today,
so we all can verify what we have and what we miss.

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Maybe we can add addresses too :smiley:

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these marques made bus bodies:

  1. Paul D’Heure (Brussels)

  2. Franco-Belge

  3. Tastenhaye

  4. Vanden Plas (Brussels)

  5. Ragheno (Mechelen)

  6. Plas & Mestdagh

  7. Energie

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The list is growing and that is good. I will ‘complete’ the first one today.

@Eric/Tiptop…in Beveren I only know “Bril” but feel free to add the others

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Feel free to add/correct/adjust

Attention: in Belgium all names starting with “van” are classified under the second name
so van Hool is classified under the V

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Thanks for the list.

Here some updates:

ABR - Familleureux
AMN - Nivelles
Bus & Car - Brugge
Denolf & Depla - Roeselare
Remi Desot - Gits
Franco Belge - La Croyère
Germain -La Louviére
Maes - Antwerpen
Stoelen - Lier
Verleure - Roeselare

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Thank you! Also MOL of Hooglede (who acquired Bus & Car) should be in the list.

Are you sure we don’t mix up with car-bodybuilders? I remember VandenPlas as
the luxury version of the Rover cars

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ERF-Continental:
Thank you! Also MOL of Hooglede (who acquired Bus & Car) should be in the list.

Are you sure we don’t mix up with car-bodybuilders? I remember VandenPlas as
the luxury version of the Rover cars

If I remember rightly, it was BMC not Rover, A-J! :smiley:

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You are also right…VDP made a lot of car-bodies…for different car-manufacturers but I srongly
doubt if VDP did ‘something’ on the bus- and lorrymarket

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ERF-Continental:
You are also right…VDP made a lot of car-bodies…for different car-manufacturers but I srongly
doubt if VDP did ‘something’ on the bus- and lorrymarket

:laughing: well I’ve learnt something new, A-J: I’d never heard of the Rover VDP before! Robert :slight_smile:

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They made some bus bodies for the Belgian Vicinal circa 1934:

AB341-342 Miesse chassis
AB343-345 Brossel chassis