SIAM

The Société des industries automotives Montroy, better known by its acronym of SIAM or nickname MoMo for Moteurs Montroy, produces motor vehicles for civilian and military use in Sober Thought. It was founded in Mont Royaume and still retains its headquarters in Hochelaga.

Public transit vehicles

Commuter rail and subway systems are the most capital intensive parts of the public transit network, and SIAM builds the rolling stock for most of the country's needs. Its major competitors inside the country are NorRail in Nordentor and Sober Thought Automotive and Rail in Schweindorf. Major bids are also solicited and selected in the International Democratic Union based on its industrial goods free trade agreement.

MoMo's efficiency and the weakness of demand have given it nearly free reign in the streetcar or tram market. Both domestic competitors and many foreign ones have abandoned the field as an uneconomical blend of the rail and bus market.

SIAM builds several styles of motor coaches, buses and minibuses seating from a dozen to sixty passengers. This is the most hotly contested part of the land transportation market, and SIAM is the junior player after O'Peachy of Kolashek, Jarvet; Oro of Oak County, Central Province; and Charles Wain of Drewburgh, Bristle Island.

Transport vehicles

There is a great deal of overlap with the public transit vehicles, since trains can be used to move freight as well as people. However, disregarding rail discussed above, MoMo makes a series of trucks from light pickups to semi-trucks.

The main competition for the larger trucks comes from outside Sober Thought, since economies of scale are more feasible with foreign manufacturers. However, the smaller trucks have many more domestic competitors since commercial vans, delivery vehicles and the like are far more numerous.

Private transit vehicles

While cycling is the preferred method of strictly personal travel in urban areas for distances of less than 10 kilometres, sometimes nothing but a motor car will do. SIAM has small two-person cars, four person sedans and six person station wagons or minivans.

SIAM produces a range of recreational vehicles such as personal watercraft, snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles and caravans. However, since most people's modest incomes and the high cost of fuel (actually the true cost of fuel), only the rich can afford these frivolities.

Military vehicles

The Defence Division of MoMo produces most of the soft skinned military trucks in the Community Defence Forces because they are functionally similar to the civilian transport vehicles and motor homes. The main differences are stiffer suspensions, some armour plating and keyless ignitions.

Entirely new designs with no civilian equivalent are required for Community Defence Forces wheeled armoured vehicles. A great deal of the parts for the armoured car, wheeled infantry combat vehicle, wheeled armoured personnel carrier and wheeled command vehicle are common to all.