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

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Just before World War I, Berliet offered a selection of models from 8 CV to 60 CV. The main models received four-cylinder engines (2412 closed circuit and 4398 cc, respectively), and there was a six-cylinder type of 9500 cc. A 1539 cc design (12 CV) has been produced between 1910 in addition to 1912. From 1912, six-cylinder models were made upon individual orders simply.The First World War triggered a massive increase widely used. Berliet, like Renault and Latil, produced trucks for the French army. The military orders placed major demands around the factory's capacity, necessitating major investment within production plant and manufacturer space.In 1915 a 500 hectare site was obtained between Vénissieux et Saint-Priest to be able to build a new primary factory.The Berliet CBA became the iconic truck within 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 particular French army. During 1916 40 ones were leaving the plant daily. Under license from Renault, Berliet were also providing shells and battle tanks at the moment. The number of workers employed increased to 3, 150.By 1917 the price of annual turnover had multiplied fourfold since the beginning of the war, and a new legitimate structure was deemed proper. The company became this Société anonyme des Automobiles Marius Berliet.Following war the manufacturer reoriented part of its production back to help passenger cars, but Berliet nevertheless found themselves with excess capacity, as the army was not buying all the pickup trucks the factory could generate, and overall output halved.Marius Berliet responded on the outbreak of peace by deciding to generate just a single kind of truck and a single sort of car, which represented a starting from his pre-war current market strategy. The single truck where Berliet focused was the actual 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 for the 15th Paris Motor Indicate in October 1919, was the 3296cc (15HP/CV) "Torpedo" bodied "Berliet Sort VB" of modern appearance. Marius Berliet was not one to miss a trick: rather than devote occasion and engineering talent to creating a new car for the new decade, he obtained and replicated an American Dodge. The Dodge was once robust, and the Berliet copy was well received with March 1919 when it had its first open public outing, locally, at the Lyon Trade Fair. The headlights were mounted unusually high as well as the simple disc wheels have been large, giving the car a nice "no nonsense" look. Particularly attractive was the cost of just 11, 800 francs in July 1919. Unfortunately, however, the Berliet engineers failed to make certain the steel used inside car's construction was in the same quality as the United states steel used for your Dodge, and this resulted in series problems for the early customers of your "Berliet Type VB" and serious reputational injury to the company.

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The factory was set up to develop the "Berliet Type VB" with the rate of 100 cars each day which would have recently been an ambitious target underneath any circumstances. The rapid drop-off sought after for what at this point was the manufacturer's merely passenger car model that followed the high quality issues plunged the small business into financial difficulties, with losses of fifty-five million francs recorded in a single year. Survival was in doubt, and Berliet was put into judicial administration in 1921. Marius Berliet himself had held 88% in the share capital, but was unable to all the company's creditors as well as the firm therefore fell in the hands of the banks. Berliet was nevertheless competent to retain operational control. During the ensuring several years, supported by a sustained recovery popular that in turn reflected an effective model strategy after 1922, Berliet was able to his debtors and, in 1929, to regain financial control over the business from the finance institutions.

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