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Berliet has been a French manufacturer associated with automobiles, buses, trucks and military automobiles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from the five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it absolutely was put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired through Renault in 1974 along with merged with Saviem right into a new Renault Trucks business in 1978. The Berliet marque was phased out by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles inside 1894. Some single-cylinder cars have been followed in 1900 by way of a twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the plant of Audibert & Lavirotte inside Lyon. Berliet started to develop four-cylinder automobiles featured by a honeycomb radiator and metal chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the driver's licence for manufacturing his model for the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a choice of models from 8 COMPREHENSIVE RESUME to 60 CV. The main models had four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc type (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 as well as 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were created upon individual orders simply.The First World War led to a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for your French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing area space.In 1915 a 300 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest so that you can build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA started to be the iconic truck about the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle entrance at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 great deal Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by your French army. During 1916 40 advisors were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of individuals employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover acquired multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed proper. The company became the actual Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.After the war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless observed themselves with excess potential, as the army was will no longer buying all the vehicles the factory could produce, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to create just a single style of truck and a single type of car, which represented a leaving from his pre-war marketplace strategy. The single truck on what Berliet focused was the particular 5 ton CBA that had served the united states so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to be produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Show in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Form VB" of modern look. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a trick: rather than devote moment and engineering talent to having a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and ripped an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet duplicate was well received within March 1919 when that had its first public outing, locally, at the Lyon Business Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high and the simple disc wheels were large, giving the car an enjoyable "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in March 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used inside car's construction was on the same quality as the American steel used for the actual Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational damage to the company.

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The factory ended up set up to produce the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars daily which would have been an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this stage was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the product quality issues plunged the company into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty five million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was slipped into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% of the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors and also the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the finance institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring decade, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the finance institutions.

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