Berliet PH

The Berliet PH was a range of buses built by Berliet from 1961 to 1974, derived from the PLH coaches of 1956 and a direct competitor of the Saviem SC2 and SC4 in a French market closed to foreign makers. It had five models, the PH 80, PH 85, PH 8/100, PH 10/100 and PH 12/100, with Berliet engines of 7.9, 9.5 and 12.0 litres and 150 to 240 horsepower, in lengths of 9.7 and 10.66 m. The PH 8/100 and 10/100 were officially presented on 30 September 1961 with door layouts suited to one person operation, and the PH 10/100 stayed in production until 1974. The range also gave trolleybus versions such as the VBH 85 for Lyon, Dijon and Fribourg and the EH 100S for Geneva, the PH 12/180 articulated bus of 1966, the first built in France, and 16 PCM-UC buses for Marseille. A 1970 PH 8/100 from Limoges is preserved by AMTUIR.