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Berliet has been a French manufacturer connected with automobiles, buses, trucks and military vehicles among other vehicles within Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a new five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it absolutely was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974 and merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks firm in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles with 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by the twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte in Lyon. Berliet started to create four-cylinder automobiles featured with a honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used as an alternative to wood. The next year, a model was launched which was similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the license for manufacturing his model to the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a variety of models from 8 CONTINUE to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc product (12 CV) was produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were manufactured upon individual orders solely.The First World War led to a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment throughout production plant and manufacturing facility space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was acquired between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA evolved into the iconic truck for the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 load Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the actual French army. During 1916 40 of which were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks currently. The number of employees employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the value of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new appropriate structure was deemed appropriate. The company became your Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.As soon as the war the manufacturer reoriented section of its production back in order to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless identified themselves with excess volume, as the army was don't buying all the vans the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded to the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single form of truck and a single form of car, which represented a journeying from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck which Berliet focused was your 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 Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Type VB" of modern overall look. Marius Berliet was not merely one to miss a strategy: rather than devote time and engineering talent to having a new car for the modern decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet content was well received in March 1919 when it had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Buy and sell Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high plus the simple disc wheels had been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the buying price of just 11, 800 francs in October 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed in order that the steel used within the car's construction was from the same quality as the United states steel used for the Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of the particular "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory were being set up to create the "Berliet Type VB" on the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been an ambitious target under any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this stage was the manufacturer's just passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fityfive million francs recorded in one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was placed in judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% with the share capital, but was unable in order to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell into your hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless capable to retain operational control. During the ensuring 10 years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a good model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the banking institutions.

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