Sisu Auto
Finnish vehicle manufacturer
Oy Sisu Auto Ab is a truck manufacturer based in Raseborg, Finland. Its name comes from the Finnish word sisu meaning guts, grit and determination.
Sisu Auto has a subsidiary company, Sisu Defence, producing high mobility tactical vehicles for military use.
Production
Civil trucks
The currently available Sisu Polar variants are with three, four or five axles in various layouts. The applications are:
Sisu Crane – crane trucks
Sisu Rock – dump trucks
Sisu Roll – hook loader
Sisu Timber – timber trucks
Sisu Works – road maintenance trucks
Sisu Carrier – heavy machinery carrier
Military trucks
Sisu 4×4
Sisu 6×6
Sisu 8×8
Sisu 10×10
History
1931 to 1939
The company was established on 1 April 1931 as Oy Suomen Autoteollisuus Ab (SAT). It originated from two neighbouring Helsinki-based automobile coach builders, Autokoritehdas and Autoteollisuus-Bilindustri, both of which had fallen into financial troubles by the beginning of the 1930s. The banks, which were funding both companies, pressed them to put together their operations under one company. The founders were Emil Anton Winckelmann, Lars Wilhelm Åberg and Karl Arthur Nordgren. In the first company meeting the company general manager was selected John Hellsten and the technical manager was appointed Tor Nessling.
At first SAT continued the coachbuilding business which it had inherited from its predecessors, but also put into practice the plan of building own vehicles, which was evolved already earlier, when Autoteollisuus-Bilindustri had ordered few Volvo chassis for outfitting.
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