We ended up last time with some strange foreign cabs on familiar British chassis (notably Atkinsons) so I’ll kick off this time with a look at Pelpel one of the few French cab makers, to have been chronicled by the Berliet Foundation. It was started by Gaston Pelpel in 1931 after a couple of years of experience with a coachbuilder called Chataignier in Rennes, Brittany. By the end of the 1930s, Pelpel employed 18 men making
