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Berliet ended up being a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks and military autos among other vehicles situated in 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 was in private ownership until 1967 when after that it became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired simply by Renault in 1974 and also merged with Saviem into a new Renault Trucks organization in 1978. The Berliet marque was eliminated by 1980.Marius Berliet started his or her experiments with automobiles within 1894. Some single-cylinder cars were followed in 1900 by way of twin-cylinder model. In 1902, Berliet took over the actual plant of Audibert & Lavirotte throughout Lyon. Berliet started to assemble four-cylinder automobiles featured by the honeycomb radiator and aluminum chassis frame was used instead of wood. The next year, a model was launched that had been similar to contemporary Mercedes. In 1906, Berliet sold the permit for manufacturing his model towards the American Locomotive Company.

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Prior to World War I, Berliet offered a range of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models got four-cylinder engines (2412 cc and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder model of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc model (12 CV) seemed to be produced between 1910 and 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War resulted in a massive increase sought after. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the actual French army. The military orders placed major demands within the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment in production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 400 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest in order to build a new principal factory.The Berliet CBA grew to be the iconic truck around the Voie Sacrée, supplying the battle the front at Verdun during 1916. 25, 000 of these 4/5 heap Berliet trucks, originally launched in 1914, were ordered by the particular French army. During 1916 40 of them were leaving the plant on a daily basis. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of personnel employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the benefit of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the start of the war, and a new lawful structure was deemed appropriate. The company became this Société anonyme des Vehicles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented portion of its production back to be able to passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess capability, as the army was not buying all the vans the factory could develop, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded for the outbreak of peace by deciding to provide just a single form of truck and a single kind of car, which represented a departure from his pre-war industry strategy. The single truck what is the best Berliet focused was the 5 ton CBA that had served the country so well during the actual war.

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The passenger car to become produced, exhibited on the Berliet stand in the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern physical appearance. Marius Berliet was it's unlikely that any to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to having a new car for the revolutionary decade, he obtained and duplicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was notoriously robust, and the Berliet backup was well received throughout March 1919 when the item had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Industry Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high along with the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a pleasing "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the price tag on just 11, 800 francs in Oct 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to ensure that the steel used inside the car's construction was in the same quality as the American steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for your early customers of this "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational problems for the company.

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The factory ended up set up to make the "Berliet Type VB" at the rate of 100 cars per day which would have been recently an ambitious target beneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off popular for what at this point was the manufacturer's solely passenger car model that followed the standard issues plunged the business into financial difficulties, with losses of second there’s 55 million francs recorded available as one year. Survival was in skepticism, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to settle all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in to the hands of the financial institutions. Berliet was nevertheless capable of retain operational control. During the ensuring ten years, supported by a sustained recovery widely used that in turn reflected a powerful model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to pay off his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control in the business from the banks.

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