Renault TS

The Renault TS is a heavy goods vehicle model produced by the French company Renault in the early 1930s. At the end of 1930 Renault stopped making its last commercial vehicles with the gendarme's hat bonnet, the radiator behind the engine, and adopted vertical grilles with the radiator in front, in a highly modular range with many standardised parts. Within that range the TS truck has a payload of 7.5 tonnes, raised to 8 tonnes at the end of 1931, and it takes bodies such as flatbed, tipper, refuse truck, tanker and a tank transporter for the French Army, of which 59 producer-gas TSG were ordered in 1930 and 1931. The TS, presented in 1929, was produced from 1930 to 1931, and the diesel versions from 1931 to 1932, 1932 to 1933 and 1935 to 1936. The petrol engine is a four-cylinder of 110 by 160 mm, and the diesel a four-cylinder of 115 by 170 mm developed by Renault itself. A tank-transporter TS uses 70 litres per 100 km with a 78 litre tank at about 17 km/h.