Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and other utility vehicles, based in Vénissieux, in the outskirts of Lyon, France. Marius Berliet started his experiments with automobiles in 1894. Some single cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to build four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and steel chassis frame was used instead of wood. In 1917, Berliet started to build trucks for the French Army. The company produced 40 trucks a day. The last Berliet sedan from 1936 was Berliet Dauphine propelled by a 2-litre engine and using the body of a Peugeot 302B with a custom made hood and radiator grille. Regular passenger car production ceased in 1939 The Berliet truck factory in Lyon, which remained in Marius Berliet's family possession, has manufactured 2,330 trucks for the Germans. After World War II, the company produced trucks only. In 1957 Berliet manufactured one of the largest truck ever built in the world, the T100. In 1966, Berliet's final year as an independent, they had produced approximately 17,000 units. Following the take-over by Citroën in 1967, the merged company stated that Citroën-Berliet would command 58% of France's market for commercial vehicles above 6 tons. In 1974 Berliet was sold to Renault. Renault then proceeded to merge Berliet with Saviem to form RVI. The Berliet GLC and GLR have been built from 1951 till 1981 with any minor modifications. Modelled with BLENDER,image withe Vue8.5 Thank you for your comments. Eric