In 1899, a new French motor vehicle manufacturing company was established and named after the family of the three founding Renault brothers. Very quickly they built up a reputation for quality and reliability and went on to supply the French armed forces with a range of vehicles and aircraft engines during the First World War. This association with the military continued throughout the 1920s and 1930s with Renault supplying trucks to the French army right up to the time of the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
When France was occupied by the German Army in 1940, the factories of Renault, like those of all
