Berliet PCR

The Berliet PCR was a bus built by Berliet from 1951 to June 1956, shown at the 1951 Paris show as the PCR 10 intercity coach and the PCR 8 city bus. Paul Berliet found the older PCK obsolete against Chausson, Renault and Isobloc, and the PCR was in effect a revised PCK with a vertical six cylinder MDZ.H engine of 9,500 cc and 145 horsepower, a driving position moved 40 cm forward and a redrawn, nearly vertical front. The urban PCR 8A, developed with an engineer of the Lyon operator OTL and tried on Lyon line 23, took its place on the city network on 19 May 1952, when the last metre gauge tram line in Lyon closed, and 221 were built in all. The PCR 10A coach sold only 200 examples, the PCR 10B of 1953 and 1954 was lengthened to 10.913 m with 249 built, and the PCR 10C, from October 1954 to June 1956, added dual circuit brakes and 101 more. Exports went to Argentina, Cuba and North Africa, and only 120 of the 350 PCR 10 ran in France.