Retro Photo (Anything Retro)

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Today the Potez 53 that winned Deutsch de la Meurthe Cup 1933 is exhibited at Paris-Le Bourget Air Museum.
2000 km - average speed : 322 Km/h (photo above).
Below, a Caudron 366 and, behind, a Caudron 714R that has never flied because of the war.

2 restored Caudron-Renault Simoun


The engine Renault and the propeller are not yet assembled.

The engine Renault Bengali without the propeller

A second Caudron found in the magazine "L'Auto-Journal". (15 December 1984)

 

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Berliet trucks


One truck made every 14 minutes !

Rouiba manufactory in Algeria

Bourg en Bresse manufactory in France

An order of GBCKT for the army

The range Berliet 1973

L 64 4x4

GL 900

M 4 cab

GBH 6x4

 

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The biggest Berliet


Dumper T 60

GXO

T 100

Just, just the T 100 under the railway bridge at Chartres (France):nail biting:

TX 40

 

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Some Berliet with forward cab (GAK, GBK, GCK ...)

GAK and derived appear in 1961.
In the Berliet catalog, the first letter point to the type of truck :
G for carrying truck
T for tractor truck


GAK 60

GAK 65

GBK 75

GCK 8

GRK 10

TR 12

 

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Berliet trucks from the movie "100000 Dollars au soleil" (Henri Verneuil - 1964)




The GBC 8 M Gazelle (1958) of Lino Ventura is planted into the sand.

The truck restored today.

Competition Lino Ventura VS Jean-Paul Belmondo at the wheel of a brand new TLM 10 M2 (1961). The load of this truck will remain mysterious during all the movie.

 

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GLR 8 M - 1959

TBO 15 - 1957

Bernard Blier at the wheel of the TBO 15.

The TLM 10 M2 that will be stolen by Jean-Paul Belmondo and purchased by Lino Ventura. :thumbs up:

 

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Some various Berliet models


GBO 15

Comfort and visibility inside the forward cab of the GCK 8

GLM 10 HC

GLM 12 6x4 S

GLR 8 b - 1950

GLR 10 M3

TBK 10

TBK 10 forward cab followed by a TLM 10 M old generation.

 

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Willème "nez de requin" (shark nose) and other models (1954 - 1956)


LD 610

LD 610

LD 610 B (with forward cab)

LD 610 B and LD 610 TB

LD 610 T

LD 610 T

LD 610 T

LD 610 T

LD 610 T

RD 615 DT

 

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1955

 

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One year after Gilles Grangier, Henri Verneuil ...


1956

Bernard truck type CA 6 LW - 1947

Jean Gabin is truck driver on a Willème LC 610 T - 1953 (first model without bonnet air cooling hearings)

2 truck drivers by vehicle at this time. Here Pierre Mondy is sleeping while Jean Gabin is driving.

 

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Bernard trucks (1924 - 1967)


Edouard Bernard created his company in 1924 with the manufacturing of hydraulics tippings for trucks. Quickly he added some own vans at the catalog.

Head office and manufacturing at Arcueil, southern suburban of Paris.

Showroom and offices

Mechanical workshop

For assembling motors and frames, another manufacture is builded at Bagneux near Arcueil

The third building, also at Arcueil, is a repairing workshop.


Bernard special feature starting 1935 : the rear axle pass through the frame by a large opening. It allow to lower a lot the gravity center of the vehicle.

However, Bernard continue to make some traditional frames during a short time.

 

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Fiftees : The famous trucks with chromed radiator grill


Bernard stand at Paris motorshow 1957.

 

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The end of Bernard trucks


6 R 200.26 6x2

19 DA 150 with forward cab

Endurance demonstration for the new Alsthom Dieselair V 8 air cooled engine 200 HP derived from one locomotive motor.

T 200 35 D (notice the turbine of the air-cooling)

Sad Paris motorshow 1957 : the company has deposited its balance sheet.

Paris motorshow 1960 : Bernard exhibits the prototype of a management bus for the television. This amazing creation is drawed by Philippe Charbonneaux and bodyworked by Pourtout. It is named "television cab".

26 DA 8 P 180 (only one unit)

TDA 180 35

In 1963 the American constructor Mack bought Bernard and assembled its motors on the trucks that became some Mack-Bernard. On the tractor TDA 211 35 above, the "television cab" is left for a more classic cab (1966). The manufacture of the Mack-Bernard is stopped in 1967, the same year for the Panhard cars. These constructors were too small to survive.

 

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TVs of the past

 

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Renault 12 and Concorde in 1976

 

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Citroën H, the useful cube

 

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Renault Estafette

 

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Peugeot J7, the van with multiple faces

 

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