After falling into financial problems, the funding banks forced the company to put together its operations with the neighbouring competitor O/Y Autokoritehdas; this led to foundation of O/Y Suomen Autoteollisuus A/B.
At an early stage Henry-Auto and Metro-Auto Oy founded jointly Munkkisaaren Autotalli ja Konepaja, "Munkkisaari garage and engineering works".
A suitable location was found in Fleming Street in Kallio, Helsinki where were many workshops and also a plenty of skilled workers.
[1] Autoteollisuus-Bilindustri built partnership with the Swedish subsidiary of General Motors; the initial plan was building coaches and cabins on Chevrolet and G.M.C.
Although Nessling's calculations showed the business to be profitable, the project led only to importing of a few Volvo chassis.
Finally there were not capable domestic component suppliers, so Autoteollisuus-Bilindustri had to use more Volvo parts than originally planned.
This took place in April 1931, when O/Y Suomen Autoteollisuus A/B (SAT) was established by Lars Wilhelm Åberg, Karl Arthur Nordgren and Emil Anton Winckelmann.