page_title: Sisu S-321
section_title: Survived units
hierarchical_section_title: Sisu S-321 / Survived units
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Alkuperäinen kuvaus: Tanssiorkesteri Dallapén Sisu-merkkinen auto. Lisäys: Sisu S-322D.
context_page_description: Sisu S-321, S-322 and S-323 is the first lorry and bus model series made by the Finnish heavy vehicle producer Suomen Autoteollisuus in 1932–1934. Upgraded models S-341 and S-342 were produced in 1934. The vehicles were heavily based on Volvo components. The two-axle, 4×2-driven lorries were designated with 2 500 kg capacity and total weight of 4 800 kg.
  The series was followed by the 1934 introduced Sisu SO-models.
context_section_description: The best-known survived first-generation Sisu is a 1933-produced S-322D with a tourist bus coach. SAT had not got the payment before the operator bankrupted while the bus was in Warsaw. SAT had to arrange the retrieval. The bus turned out to be difficult to sell, as the coach was rather unusual type without aisle and equipped with saloon style side doors. An orchestra called Dallapé bought the bus in 1934 and made it famous by touring by it around Finland. The bus was sold at the end of 1939 and converted into fire engine in the following year. The Finnish vintage vehicle association SA-HK saved it from scrapping in 1970. As the original coach was largely disappeared, the reconstruction work was postponed due to lack of funds, until it was finally done in years 1982–1985. The bus has been displayed in many museums and several vintage vehicle meetings thereafter. A Dallapé text was painted on the sides in the 1990s.
  Tampere Technical Museum houses a 1934-produced S-322D lorry which is from the last Volvo-based production series. The first owner was Yhtyneet Paperitehtaat Simpele Paper Mill which sold it in 1939 to Viipuri-based K. Widing Engine Repairs Shop that evacuated the vehicle to Hämeenlinna during the war. Due to damages the lorry suffered during the war its cabin was later modified and has now a split windscreen and higher roof. The lorry played a side role on an Edvin Laine directed film Akseli and Elina filmed in summer 1970.
  In summer 2001 a rusted S-342D from 1934 was saved for restoration. Originally it had been used for coal transportation and it served as a tow truck at depot of a bus operator from 1947 until the 1950s.
caption: Sisu S-322D used by dance orchestra Dallapé photographed in 1934.
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