Renault TN

The Renault TN was a range of buses produced from 1931 until 1971 for the Paris service, described by Le Monde as a symbol of a Paris era. The first model, the 9.5 metre TN4, was introduced in 1931 at the request of the STCRP, the predecessor of the RATP, and was the first Renault bus with the radiator in front of the engine rather than behind; more powerful and carrying up to 50 passengers, it led to the final decline of the Paris tramway, which disappeared in 1937. The TN4 used inline-four engines of 58 metric horsepower and the TN6 of 1932 an inline-six of 68 metric horsepower, and the TN4H of 1935 had a closed platform, a longer wheelbase, a forward control cabin and a new suspension. A significant number were requisitioned by the French military in the Second World War, and the range was phased out between 1959 and 1971, with Solido making a 1:50 die-cast model of the TN6C.