After World War II, the Pons Plan imposed limits to the French commercial vehicle manufacturers, which were divided into various groupings.
Latil was made part of a Peugeot-lead grouping, and limited to produce large goods vehicles from 5 to 7 tonnes payload along with Saurer.
The Latil range of forward control commercial vehicles mostly used just this cabin and the H14 and H16 engines from then on, allowing a strong modularisation and standardisation of components, making it easier for Latil to offer a varied range of low volume models.
[1] In 1954, Latil introduced a cabin which could be directly mounted in any chassis without any major modification, and so allowing even more standardisation.
[1] It was criticised for vibrating, having cabin overheating problems and leaving little space inside as the engine occupied a central high position on it.
[3] The range is named according to Latil's system introduced shortly before World War II and standardised after it, and it could have up to five code groupings.
The TL lettering is used mostly for Latil's agricultural and forestry tractors (where it appears immediately after the engine naming, except in a few forward control versions).
TR are four-wheel steering, all-wheel drive heavy machine carriers (most of them unrelated to the Latil H14 and H16 A1 range).