Le Plessis-Robinson and Viarmes:

Here are maps showing the location of these 1970s Massey-Ferguson engineering and field test (respectively) centres, with respect to Paris itself:

Le Plessis map

Here is Le Plessis-Robinson, at about 7 o’clock with respect to the centre of Paris, not many kilometres east of Versailees, along the N12. I used to stay at the hotel “Le Petit Versailles”, and drive, in my hired Renault Cinq, along to Le Plessis, for a day’s liaison with Jean-Claude Muller, Gilbert Delfosse, and their colleagues. In the evenings, I would sometimes go to Parly-Deux, a then-new shopping centre, within fairly easy reach of Versailles, and which seemed glittering and modern to me.

Viarmes - map

And here is Viarmes, at about 12 o’clock, near the top of the map. I remember that the drive-in to Paris on the N1 took you past Charles de Gaulle airport, whereas the flights from Birmingham came in at Orly.

qaa© Philip B Archer 2014