Berliet was a French manufacturer of
automobiles,
buses, trucks and other utility vehicles, based in
Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of
Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and merged with
Saviem into a new
Renault Trucks company in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.