The first truck was offered in 1914 with 4-wd and 4-wheel steering. !! In 1915 Latil developed with the Tourand company an early agricultural tractor, this was a 20 hp machine that had several novel features: the rear wheels mounted inside the chassis side rails and a hoist device was used to raise and lower a plough or other implement mounted at the rear. The Tourand-Latil was demonstrated at several agricultural trials and after the First World War was marketed for a period. In 1918 Latil resumed his work on road haulage tractors, and from 1925 he began to adapt these for agricultural use, initially in the beetgrowing areas of the Ile de France. Latil also pioneered the use of pneumatic tyres on agricultural vehicles in the late 1920s, and his versatile machines were equally at home in t