Belgian marques: Willems

Feel free to input on Willems

A copy of an advertisement of 1937. Willems-Motors was established by Adolphe Willems
and produced both trucks and busses with diesel- or petrol-engines.

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Nice livery of ELVEPE…Leon Van Parijs wellknown for fruits in Antwerp.

Hey ERF, never heart of it, but it was the time that Bourgeoisie was using still French as main
language in Flanders, NOT that I am a Flamingant.
If you continue, in a few time we will have more marques as the British :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: .

Bye Eric,

And we even didn’t proceed on the Dutch marques!!!

To be honest, Dasse, Bovy, Pipe, FN and what comes are not my marques
but I appreciate the efforts of hard working men, technicians, engineers
and financing people to start an automotive business.

Same in Holland, DAF is the most known, but don’t forget FTF, GINAF, AS,
Terberg, Hogra, GTS, Jumbo and so on…

By the way, we didn’t talk about trailers yet, for which Willems also is known, also
as TTA, RAY, Varmo, EKW…and don’t forget the tipper-industry, RG, EFA and…

Hey, there you have a point, and after war more and more did for cabs, trailers and bodies.
And with the surplus I think it wasn’t interesting to build trucks again, some did most in the
Netherlands. DAF had it already hard to survive, and was not the smallest.

Bye Eric,