salmson had emerged as an automobile manufacturer between 1919 and 1922, having already become well established in the aviation business, initially as an aircraft manufacturer and specialising more recently in aircraft engines. moving quickly beyond the british designed cyclecars, with which the post-war automobile business had started, during the mid-1920s the manufacturer specialised in small cars with technically advanced features such as a twin overhead camshaft and overhead valves for the car engines.