The Berliet T100 is a truck manufactured by Berliet. It was, at that time, the largest truck in the world.
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Design
Three trucks were built with normal control (with cabin behind the front axle); the fourth built with forward control (cabin-top-engine design (and sleeping accommodation)). They have a 29.6 liter Cummins V12 engine, providing 600 hp (447 kW) and 700 hp (522 kW). The trucks are intended for off-road use, in the oil and mining industries, especially oil exploration in the Sahara. The steering is powered by a separate small Panhard engine.
The first two trucks are 6x6 flatbeds with 103 tons of gross weight; the third built as a 6x4 dumper truck, for uranium mines in Bessines-sur-Gartempe; the fourth is another pickup truck with a gross weight of 102 tons, or 190 tons as a tractor. It was experimentally equipped with the Turbomeca jet engine in 1962, but excessive fuel consumption, so the conventional diesel engine was installed again.
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History
The trucks were designed and built in secret, and with tight deadlines; the first to finish after nine months, at the factory in Courbevoie. It was unveiled, surprisingly, at the Paris car show of 1957. However, it was too big to fit in the main exhibit hall, so Berliet built a special external pavilion to show off a large new truck. It was later featured at various other auto shows - Lyon, Avignon, Helsinki, Casablanca, Frankfurt, and Geneva. He works in the Sahara oil and gas fields; after Algerian independence became the property of the Algerian government, and finally preserved in Hassi-Messaoud.
The second T100 was built in 1958 and two more in 1959.
The second T100, after working in Algeria, was later returned to the Berliet Foundation museum in 1981.
The trucks were stablemates from Berliet GBO15, a 6x6 60-ton truck that had been released in 1956. 45 were built, mostly exported to Algeria.
See also
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References
External links
- the Berliet Foundation page on T100
- Photos from the Berliet museum
- T100 History
- Berliets desert trap
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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